Integrated Service Team Flashcards

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What is an IST?

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Integrated Service Team
Many members for one common goal
(Areas of overlap, each has a scope)

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How to build an IST?

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Identify my needs
Identify my limitations
Identify who can cover my limitations
Build relationships with other professionals

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What are the two sides of sports medicine?

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Performance and enhancement
Injury care and management (basic medical)

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What are some organizations involved in sport performance?

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Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology
National Strength and Conditioning Association
Canadian Sport Psychology Association
Dieticians of Canada

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Certifications from the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (CSEP)

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CEP = Cert. Exercise Phys.
CPT = Cert. Personal Trainer

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What can you do as a CEP?

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  • Advanced exercise testing or screening
  • General pop, HIGH PERFORMANCE athletes, chronic health conditions, functional LIMITATIONS OR DISABILITIES
  • Holy grail of experience, knowledge, and scope
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What can you do as a CPT?

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  • Pre-participation health screening
  • Submaximal fitness assessments
  • HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS between 15 and 69 YEARS
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Certifications from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)

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  • CERTIFIED STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING SPECIALIST
  • NSCA-Certified personal trainer
  • Tactical Strength and Conditioning Specialist
  • Certified Special Populations Specialist (common one)
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The NSCA is an _____________ organization

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International

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What can a sport psych help with?

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Mental and emotional skills, techniques, attitudes, and perspectives that lead to performance enhancement and positive personal development
Mental training
Especially with an athlete who has been injured for a long time

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Why are dieticians important?

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Integral role
Most professionals don’t have this in their scope
Also helps with injury
Eating disorders
Rarely used, but still important to have

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Who are some professionals to help with the injury care and management side?

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Sports medicine physician
Sports physio
Sports chiro
Athletic therapist
Many other!

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What is a sports medicine physician?

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  • Specialized training and skills specific to sport-related conditions (ex. concussions, know the best rehab)
  • Completed further professional training (Sport Medicine Fellowship) and/or additional uni degree
  • NOT the same as a family med practitioner
  • Governed by Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM)
  • Referral often needed
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What are the challenges to getting a Sports med phys?

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  • Hard to get access
  • Referrals can take a while
    BUT loophole is that many sports therapist offices usually have a sport med physician on-site!
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What is a Certified athletic therapist?

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Specialize in musculoskeletal injury recognition, management, treatment, and return to activity
- In-depth knowledge of MS system, biomech, and basic emergency care
- On-site during games
- Many different assessments and therapy types
CANNOT do field-specific trauma response

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What is a sports physio?

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  • Written and practical certification process to validate skills and abilities
  • Certificate and diploma level
  • Sport Physiotherapy Canada is a national organization for sport physios
  • Very similar scope as an athletic therapist
  • Takes athlete from point A (game injury) to Z (return to normal)
    VERY few in Alberta
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What is a sports chiro?

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  • Governed by Royal College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences (sports residency program)
  • Very similar additional training as an athletic therapist and sport physio
  • 1000 hours of field work, academic focus on exercise physio, nutrition, psych, advanced imaging, sport-specific research, acute + chronic injury management, and sport administration training
    VERY VERY few in province
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What professionals count as sport therapists?

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Athletic therapists
Sports physiotherapists
Sport chiropractors

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Sport therapist areas of expertise

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  1. Prevention
  2. Immediate care
  3. Clinical assessment
  4. Treatment, rehab, and reconditioning
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What are some methods of prevention?

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  • Equipment fitting and modification
  • Conditioning
  • Screening and assessment
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What are some methods of immediate care?

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  • Acute injury recognition and management
  • Emergency interventions and EAP (what to do in a worst-case scenario
  • On and off field evaluation skills
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What are some methods of clinical assessment?

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  • Understanding pathology of injuries and illnesses
  • Coordination with other medical practitioners
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What are some ways sports therapists get better at treatment, rehab, and reconditioning?

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  • Develop therapy skills through continuing education and workshops (need to constantly uptake knowledge)
  • Emphasis on exercise-based treatment and rehab (difference between clinical rehab doing day-to-day things again, and sport rehab where you’re back to 100%)
  • Knowledge of exercise physio
  • Identifying KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS to guide an athlete’s return to performance
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What are some other handy-dandy medical professionals that are good to have, but not necessarily routine?

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Emergency personnel (will likely have to see them a lot)
Dentist (for things like mouthguards)
Orthopedists (ex. for someone with recurrent hip, knee, shin issues)
Psychologists/psychiatrists (mental health + wellbeing)

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My scope (student kin)

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Kinesiologists use the science of movement to offer prevention, objective assessment, and evidence based intervention
May offer a broad spectrum of services
- Take knowledge from this class, apply it to many settings
Obviously only deliver services that I have appropriate training for

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What I can do next

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  • Pursue further certification and training to advance abilities (sports first responder, or emergency first responder)
  • Many settings to gain experience