Integrated Service Team Flashcards
What is an IST?
Integrated Service Team
Many members for one common goal
(Areas of overlap, each has a scope)
How to build an IST?
Identify my needs
Identify my limitations
Identify who can cover my limitations
Build relationships with other professionals
What are the two sides of sports medicine?
Performance and enhancement
Injury care and management (basic medical)
What are some organizations involved in sport performance?
Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology
National Strength and Conditioning Association
Canadian Sport Psychology Association
Dieticians of Canada
Certifications from the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (CSEP)
CEP = Cert. Exercise Phys.
CPT = Cert. Personal Trainer
What can you do as a CEP?
- Advanced exercise testing or screening
- General pop, HIGH PERFORMANCE athletes, chronic health conditions, functional LIMITATIONS OR DISABILITIES
- Holy grail of experience, knowledge, and scope
What can you do as a CPT?
- Pre-participation health screening
- Submaximal fitness assessments
- HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS between 15 and 69 YEARS
Certifications from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
- CERTIFIED STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING SPECIALIST
- NSCA-Certified personal trainer
- Tactical Strength and Conditioning Specialist
- Certified Special Populations Specialist (common one)
The NSCA is an _____________ organization
International
What can a sport psych help with?
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
Why are dieticians important?
Integral role
Most professionals don’t have this in their scope
Also helps with injury
Eating disorders
Rarely used, but still important to have
Who are some professionals to help with the injury care and management side?
Sports medicine physician
Sports physio
Sports chiro
Athletic therapist
Many other!
What is a sports medicine physician?
- 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
What are the challenges to getting a Sports med phys?
- 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!
What is a Certified athletic therapist?
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
What is a sports physio?
- 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
What is a sports chiro?
- 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
What professionals count as sport therapists?
Athletic therapists
Sports physiotherapists
Sport chiropractors
Sport therapist areas of expertise
- Prevention
- Immediate care
- Clinical assessment
- Treatment, rehab, and reconditioning
What are some methods of prevention?
- Equipment fitting and modification
- Conditioning
- Screening and assessment
What are some methods of immediate care?
- Acute injury recognition and management
- Emergency interventions and EAP (what to do in a worst-case scenario
- On and off field evaluation skills
What are some methods of clinical assessment?
- Understanding pathology of injuries and illnesses
- Coordination with other medical practitioners
What are some ways sports therapists get better at treatment, rehab, and reconditioning?
- 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
What are some other handy-dandy medical professionals that are good to have, but not necessarily routine?
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)
