Subjects Of Athletic training Philosophies (SOAP) Notes

Good morning! Welcome back to SOAP Notes! After a long hiatus, I have another article to share! I'm sure many of you can relate to how crazy things get towards the middle/late parts of a season. With NATA convention starting this week, I felt this topic would be appropriate. Those of you who are athletic trainers know that our profession has been pushing towards more evidence-based practice (EBP) methods. This has been reinforced by the added requirement of 10 EBP credits on our biannual continuing education reports. Unfortunately, in my opinion many of these EBP continuing education units (CEUs) are accomplished through online quizzes that rarely have an obvious correlation to the clinic. Today I want to talk about EBP, how it can directly impact clinical practices, and how it might possibly be addressed differently. My understanding of the idea behind evidence-based practice is that we must hold ourselves accountable to standards set by the most recent research availab...

Hello Everybody!  Today we have a very special article on the subject of athlete recovery. It is a special article because it was written by my friend and colleague, Graham Joseph. Graham and I had an interesting conversation on the topic of athlete recovery and he offered some great ideas on the subject. I asked if he was interested in writing an article for this site, and here we are! Enjoy!  ---- “Recovery” is one of the many catch-all terms that is widely used across the sports medicine, performance, and coaching world. However, what does this term “recovery” really mean for athletes, and how does this translate to what strategies you implement in your clinical practice? With this post I will try and limit the cliché terms and explain how I consider recovery when dealing with patients and athletes. I ask myself, what are we recovering from? I like to break this into three groups; 1) Central Fatigue, cognitive fatigue, or plain tiredness 2) Peripheral fatigue, ...