Sports Medicine
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Overview
Rice Memorial’s athletic trainers provide health-care services focused on the prevention of injury, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, and rehabilitation of injuries or other medical conditions. The athletic trainer is responsible for providing health care services designed to prevent injury and maintain the athlete's ability to compete safely at the highest level. Our athletic trainers provide early evaluation and treatment of athletic injuries, while educating athletes in prevention and recognition of injury and illness for each of our 37 teams across 16 different sports.
Our Athletic Training Facility is located in Room 101, where student-athletes receive treatment, care, preventive assistance, and rehabilitation. Evaluations, treatments and rehabilitations are available for any athlete participating in any of our athletic programs and clinic hours are held daily after school. Certified athletic trainers must earn a degree from an accredited athletic training program and successfully meet the requirements for certification established by the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification (NATABOC.) Our certified athletic trainers are also licensed to practice within the state of Vermont and work in conjunction with our school nurses, sports medicine physicians, primary care physicians, and physical therapists in the area.
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Mission
Our goal is to provide student-athletes with the best health care possible. In providing these services, we pride ourselves not only on treating the injury but treating the injured person. Consistent with this goal, we aim to offer a health care system that is proactive in approach, reducing the risk of athletic injury for our student athletes. We are a dedicated to the care, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries to allow our student athletes to reach their God-given potential and safely and confidently return to sport after injury.
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What is Athletic Training
Athletic training encompasses the prevention, examination, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of emergent, acute or chronic injuries and medical conditions. Athletic trainers specialize in 5 domains:
- Prevention of athletic related injuries
- Recognition, evaluation and immediate care of athletic related injuries
- Rehabilitation and reconditioning of athletic related injuries
- Health care administration
- Professional development and responsibility.
Athletic trainers are sometimes confused with personal trainers. There is a large difference in the education, skillset, job duties and patients seen by an athletic trainer compared to a personal trainer. Athletic trainers are highly trained in the 5 domains noted above, while personal trainers specialize in strength, conditioning and performance enhancement. In the state of Vermont, ATs must now earn a Masters of Science degree from an accredited athletic training program and pass a certification exam from the NATABOC in order to obtain licensure.
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Staff
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Kyle Peckham, MS, MBA, ATCpeckhamrmhsvt.orgHead Athletic Trainer/ Assistant Athletic Director -
Jorie FarnsworthFarnsworthrmhsvt.orgAthletic Trainer
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