Athletic Training Chat

Dr. Matt Kutz is professor in the athletic training program but does so much beyond that. Dr. Kutz is on the forefront of research and development when it comes to leadership in not only athletic training, but organizations in general. Dr. Kutz has put out many great articles focusing on leadership in athletic training and we get into the details of how that all got started and where it has taken...

Guido Van Ryssegem is a certified athletic training along with a registered nurse among so many other things. Guido has a really unique story to getting where he is. That has led him to finding a really deep and unique way to look at movement and athletic training. Guido focuses on proprioception, dynamic systems theory and other high level movement concepts when working with his athletes. In this...

Karli Collins has done a little bit of everything in her career thus far and continues to do so. We got to sit down with Karli and we covered a range of topics. The main topic we focused on what the EMT certification that Karli obtained early in her career and has kept up with. The EMT certification isn’t overly common in the athletic training community but there are professionals that have it and...

Dr. Julie Stamm is an athletic trainer, professor at UW-Madison and soon to be published author. Dr. Stamm has done some incredible work in her career up to this point. That includes working on concussion and brain injury research at Boston University. Dr. Stamm has continued her work with concussion related research in her current role at UW-Madison. Dr. Stamm’s focus has been primarily on the ef...

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Rob Dicks does just a little bit of about everything. Not only does Rob wear multiple hats as an athletic trainer, he goes beyond that with administrative duties, community volunteering and his mentorship. In this episode we talk about two major topics that all athletic trainers probably have a connection to. The first one is mentoring and mentorship. Rob has a unique place in his mentorship roles...

Krystal is a secondary school athletic trainer in the Houston, TX area and originally joined us on Ep. 47: Race in Athletic Training. We’ve been attempting to get this podcast to happen for some time and we finally made it happen. Athletic training is a demanding profession, in particular on your time. Krystal has a one year old and stays extremely busy balancing being a mom and the duties that ar...

Shauna Erickson is an athletic trainer, PhD student, strength and conditioning coach and the founder of MVMT Matters. Needless to say Shauna has a few things going on. In this episode we discuss everything Shauna has going on and how it all ties together. With her company MVMT Matters, Shauna combines all her knowledge in athletic training, strength and conditioning as well as the mindset aspect o...

Host Austin Fitzpatrick is at the beginning of his journey in working with baseball athletes. He put together this roundtable of athletic trainers that work baseball across all different levels. In this episode they talk about everything that can go into working with baseball and the career path that got everyone to where they are.  This group talks about the similarities and differences in w...

Andrea Dosedla is not only doing fantastic work in the industrial setting for AT she is out to try and blaze a new path for athletic trainers. Andrea is right in the middle of opening up, as she refers to it, a community athletic training room; MKE Injury & Recovery. We discuss everything that has gone into the process thus far and how Andrea has been able to put it all together. We also get d...

Aaron Ngor is an athletic trainer in California and is doing some very unique things when it comes it comes to serving the performance and dance community. Aaron works as an adjunct professor but also takes care of the performers at the institution he works at. Along with that he started Offset Med. The purpose was to serve the performance community but during these COVID times its seen its own ev...

Nate Ervin is an athletic trainer in the NCAA Division III setting. Nate’s path to becoming an athletic trainer started later than many of us so he is not only in a different spot in his career but also his life. In the mix of being in a different spot in life is having a 21 month old while trying to cover 2-3 sports throughout the school year. In this episode Nate talks about the balance that mus...

Erica and Trevor Folker not only run their own business, they do it as a pair. Erica is a PT, DPT, LAT, ATC and Trevor is a LAT, ATC and they collectively run MVMT Performance and Rehabilitation. Greg kicks off the episode talking about MVMT and what makes it unique when it comes to looking at performance and rehabilitation. Also discussed is how it is being married, owning a business and working...

Matt Campbell is a repeat guest for us. We originally interviewed him back for episode 34-OPS Concussion Clinic. Since that time a has changed for Matt and the concussion clinic. Now Matt runs Midwest Concussion Clinic and in this episode we talk about the change in name and everything else that is going on with concussion. Matt provides a lot of unique insight, not only from the the standpoint of...

Erin McFarlane is the Head Athletic Trainer for the Washington Spirit of the WNSL. Erin has had a lot of experience in a lot of different settings in her career up to this point and with that has gained unique insight in the athletic training profession. Ranging from now at the professional level all the way to working at a high school Erin has been able to take away ideas and principles to help d...

Alexis Schaefer is a staff athletic trainer at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where on top of providing care for sports she leads the departments efforts around mental health. Alexis has an undeniable passion for mental health and how to help increase not only access to help and services but empowering student-athletes to take control of their own mental health and providing tools in order...

The University of Georgia Concussion Research Laboratory has been studying the causes and effects of concussion for awhile and they continue to come out with high impact information in regards to the injury. In this episode Greg talks with co-director Julianne Schmidt and DoD project coordinator Emily Miller about what the research lab has been doing and what they are doing moving forward. What is...

Rick Cox is the head athletic training and strength and conditioning coach at Suffolk University, he is also our first repeat guest on ATChat. If you follow Rick at all on social media you know he is constantly focusing on leadership and sharing what he is currently reading on the top. You can also make the safe bet that it might have to relate to Jocko Willink and Extreme Ownership. In this episo...

Roles got reversed in this episode as Austin and Greg interview Joel. Joel has talked for more recently about the importance of looking at AT Services, not AT Servants and the importance of working “with” coaches and fellow administrators, not “for” them. This has been a shift that has been occurring over Joel’s last 4-5 years of practice in the profession. The shift in thinking began when Joel st...

Alyssa Vaniman is one of the founders of LatinxATs and that is just one major undertaking along with the other aspects of her life. Alyssa just took a new job in Arizona but at the time was working in LA at a DII school. On top of that she is in her first year of the DAT program at Indiana State University. We had originally talked several months ago when Alyssa had just started the DAT program bu...

Jack Marucci is the director athletic training at LSU. Not only is Jack running the sports medicine team he runs his own baseball bat business. Needless to say he has a few things going on. In this episode Greg and Jack cover a wide variety of topics when it comes to athletic training. Topics include maintaining flexibility early in your career and getting a variety of experiences to figure out wh...

Alejandra Merriman is an athletic trainer and teacher in the secondary setting in Los Angeles California. In addition to those full time jobs she is also one of founder of LatinxATs. In this episode we talk about founding LatinxATs and the hashtag #equALLYATs. We discuss why founding this group was needed within athletic training and what their goals are. We also discuss diversity in the professio...

Brittany Backofen is an athletic trainer in the high school setting as well as part of the ATs Care network, specifically in Nevada. Brittany is very passionate about helping out not only her student-athletes but also fellow athletic trainers that might be having a hard time dealing with a situation or just generally need to talk to a colleague. In this episode we discuss more in depth on what ATs...

Susan Taah is an industrial athletic trainer among the many other things she does, seriously, it is impressive. In this episode we discuss more topics around race in athletic training and beyond. We discuss #blackintheivory and what many people of color go through in the higher education system. Eye opening and some deep reflection is warranted.  We also discuss microaggresions. A topic that...

Todd Sabol is an athletic trainer and entrepreneur. Todd has ventured outside of a ‘traditional’ setting and expanded the use of his skills with not only running educational seminars for coaches and athletics staff but also treating unique populations with the skills he’s learned. In this episode we discuss what hoops Todd has had to jump through in order to get his business up and running and how...