Athletic & Exercise Therapy, Bachelor's Degree

At Camosun

The Centre for Sport & Exercise Education offers innovative programming in the areas of Athletic & Exercise Therapy, Sport Management, Kinesiology, Massage Therapy and Adventure Education. As an Athletic & Exercise Therapy student, you will become an integral part of the Centre for Sport & Exercise Education (CSEE).

What is an Athletic Therapist?

A Certified Athletic Therapist assesses injuries and conditions in order to promote optimal healing and safe reintegration into an active lifestyle. Through the study of anatomy, emergency conditions, field conditions, therapeutic modalities and other clinical courses, students learn the methods for contemporary rehabilitative techniques and therapies, soft tissue mobilization, musculoskeletal and postural evaluation, warm-up techniques, physical reconditioning and supportive strapping procedures.

• Canadian Athletic Therapists Association

What is an Exercise Physiologist?

A Clinical Exercise Physiologist conducts fitness and health assessments, prescribes and supervises individualized or group exercise programs and provides fitness and health counselling for seemingly healthy and/or clients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, severe obesity, osteoporosis and others.

• Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology

Is Athletic & Exercise Therapy right for you?

Camosun's Bachelor of Athletic & Exercise Therapy program provides knowledge and advanced skills in athletic and exercise therapy, exercise science, and business skills to operate a successful practice. The underpinnings of this innovative program are an understanding of the Canadian health care system, culture and society that will enhance services to clients, and the research skills necessary to stay current of the advancements in the field of athletic and exercise therapy.

Athletic & Exercise Therapy Clinic

As a senior student, you'll have the opportunity to work at Camosun's on-campus clinic offering both a state of the art applied learning environment for Camosun students, and exemplary services to its clientele.

As a student

Through extensive clinical and fieldwork experiences, our degree will provide students with the theoretical knowledge, practical skills, and prerequisites necessary to seek designation as Clinical Exercise Physiologists TM with the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP). The BAET program is an accredited program of the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association providing graduates the opportunity to seek designation as a Certified Athletic Therapist.

Placements

In your second year of the program, you will start doing your field placements with high school teams. In your third year, your placements will be working with sport teams.

In your fourth year, you will participate in clinical placements in the community, and at our on-campus Athletic and Exercise Therapy Clinic.

In addition to placement for practical skills at the on-campus clinic, our students are often placed at these organizations:

• Parkland Secondary School
• Castaway Wanderers
• Crossfit Zone
• Victoria Royals

After graduation

Athletic therapists tend to work with the physically active population (athletes and recreationally active populations) and exercise therapists tend to work with those individuals who have conditions and diseases which have been the result of an inactive lifestyle (such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and obesity).

Employment opportunities

Employment settings for athletic and exercise therapists are many, including:

• Hospitals
• Athletic and exercise therapy clinics
• Schools
• Physician offices
• Physical therapy clinics
• Community based rehabilitation programs
• Occupational and industrial settings
• Professional sports teams
• Sports medicine clinics

Further study

Graduates may pursue post-graduate education in physiotherapy, occupational therapy and medicine programs as well as variety of other post-graduate programs.

Some of our graduates have gone on to pursue graduate studies at universities such as:

• McMaster University
• University of British Columbia
• A.T. Still University, Arizona
• University of Victoria

Some of our agreements with other colleges and universities include:

• University of Western States
  • Doctor of Chiropractic
  • Master of Science in Exercise & Sport Science
  • Master of Nutrition & Functional Medicine

Information sessions

The Centre for Sport & Exercise Education Information Sessions are a great way to learn more about a program and to get your questions answered by faculty and staff.

For more information please contact: sported@camosun.ca.

 

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