What Is the Difference Between an Athletic Trainer a Physical Therapist, and an Exercise Physiologist?
Question by anatomyteacher01: What is the difference between an athletic trainer a physical therapist, and an exercise physiologist?
I would like to know how their education differs and what distinguishes the way they work with people.
Best answer:
Answer by mistify
An athletic trainer and physical theapist are probably the closest related. Here is a break down of each type of profession.
ATC:
–education: BS
–treatment focus: the assessment and treatment of athletically related injuries. They have a good knowledge of exercise and mechanism of injury/repair. They have a more limited basis for the disease model process. The most common job settings include: schools and free standing clinics that focus on rehab for athletes. Job opportunities are somewhat more limited.
PT
–education: in the US it requies at least an MS degree, but many are now obtaining an entry level doctorate.
–treatment focus: the assessment and treatment of not ONLY athletes, but ANYONE who has a functional limitation due to injury, pain, illness or disease. The education not only focuses on the physiology of exercise and injury, but also the pathophysiolgy of disease processes such as stroke, parkinson’s disease, back pain, etc. This allows them to work with any population…not just atheltes.
–:job settings: can also include schools and free standing clinics, but also hospitals, home health, nursing homes, private practice, etc. There are many more job opportunities available.
Exercise physiologist:
–education: usually a BS. Many PTs obtain their BS in exercise physiology before going to grad school for PT.
–job focus: USUALLY on the fitness of a well population. They use exercise as their “treatment” (whereas PTs and ATCs can use exercise, massage, modalities, and other hands on techniques to get the desired results). Some exercise physiologists may be able to specialize in the treatment of those with certain disease processes, such as recovery from heart bypass surgery…however, this usually requires further certification. Most EPs, however, are working with the well-adult population and have their primary education in the benefits of exercise alone.
–job setting: mostly in health clubs leading, but can be clinical if they meet the job requirements.
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