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What is the UWSP Sports Medicine Clinic

The UWSP Sports Medicine Clinic is a medical facility located within the Health Enhancement Center.  We currently have 2000sq ft of space dedicated for sports medicine.  The facility is split into three different bays.  The front bay is where we perform wound care and taping techniques.  A second bay is filled with evaluation tables and various equipment used to treat your injuries.  Located at the end of our facility is the rehabilitation bay where most of the rehabilitation takes place. Our staff consist of Wisconsin licensed athletic trainers and a physical therapist waiting to help you.

What is an Athletic Trainer

An athletic trainer is an individual who engages in athletic training.

Athletic training means preventing, recognizing and evaluating athletic injuries, managing and administering the initial treatment of athletic injuries, giving emergency care or first aid for an athletic injury, and rehabilitating and physically reconditioning athletic injuries.

Except as provided under s. 448.952 , no person may designate himself or herself as an athletic trainer or use or assume the title "athletic trainer", "licensed athletic trainer", "certified athletic trainer", or "registered athletic trainer" or append to the person's name any other title, letters or designation that represents or may tend to represent the person as an athletic trainer, without a license from the credentialing board.

What is a Physical Therapist

A physical therapist is an individual who has been graduated from a school of physical therapy and holds a license to practice physical therapy granted by the affiliated credentialing board.

Physical therapy is that branch or system of treating the sick which is limited to therapeutic exercises with or without assistive devices, and physical measures including heat and cold, air, water, light, sound, electricity and massage; and physical testing and evaluation. The use of roentgen rays and radium for any purpose , and the use of electricity for surgical purposes including cauterization, are not part of physical therapy.

Except as provided in s. 448.52, Wis. Stats ., no person may practice physical therapy or designate himself or herself as a physical therapist or use or assume the title "physical therapist" or "physiotherapist" or "physical therapy technician" or append to the person's name the letters "P.T.", "P.T.T." or "R.P.T." or any other title, letters or designation which represents or may tend to represent the person as a physical therapist unless the person is licensed under subchapter III of Chapter 448, Wis. Stats .