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Using Telehealth to Increase Awareness for Dance Therapy

July 1, 2025

Telerehab Physical Therapist Catherine Vargo is taking her mission to help dancers out of the studio and moving it online. Still in her first year at ATI as a telerehab PT, Catherine brought her talents as a dance physical therapist to ATI to expand access for those who express their art through movement.

A former dancer, Catherine decided to pursue physical therapy after being treated for an injury. “The PTs I worked with were good, but they didn’t ‘get it,'” Catherine explained. “I knew there had to be people that ‘got it’ like there are therapists who understand football, basketball, or soccer. That’s why before Day One, I have always told others I wanted to be a PT that takes care of dancers.”

ATI Sports Medicine Continues Partnership with Chicago Public Schools

October 7, 2024

ATI Physical Therapy, LLC, spans 24 different states, and across our footprint, ATI’s Sports Medicine division supplies high schools, colleges, and universities with Athletic Trainers (AT). One unique partnership includes a relationship with the Chicago Public School (CPS) for four consecutive years. In the CPS system, ATI employs 21 full-time Athletic Trainers to provide care to elementary students, high school athletes, school district employees, and community members, and our teams work with all 82 District-Managed High Schools in some way.

ATI Athletic Trainers Recognize Emergency Preparedness Month

October 7, 2024

No one understands being prepared for an emergency more than our ATI Worksite Solutions (AWS) Early Intervention Specialists (EIS) and Sports Medicine Athletic Trainers. Learn more about how our Sports Medicine teams are readying themselves for the school year ahead and how our AWS Early Intervention Specialists are using their knowledge to bring big safety wins to our partnering worksites.

Creating Direct Access and Care Through ONE ATI

April 23, 2024

In Q1 of 2023, our Sports Medicine team was hard at work piloting the “One ATI Care Pathway.” It was an opportunity to empower our Athletic Trainers to use their expertise as MSK experts and to emphasize what Physical Therapists can do as primary care providers.

Even in the program’s early stages, it showed promise. Over 150 athletes benefitted from the care pathway at the onset, leading to it becoming a permanent fixture in August of 2023.

ATI Sports Medicine assists healthcare professionals understand student-athlete health…

October 4, 2023

This spring, The British Journal of Sports Medicine posted a blog about a study examining the relationship between higher concussion rates in high school athletes post-COVID-19 infection. The study was initiated after sports physicians anecdotally noticed athletes who returned to sport post-COVID infection were three times more susceptible to concussion.