Athletic Training
Start here if pain or injury is limiting how you move, train, work out, or participate. Certified Athletic Trainers can evaluate your concern, provide hands on care and rehabilitation, modify activity while you recover, and connect you with other UHS services when needed.
Working with Athletic Training can also reduce injury risk, and help you return to exercise, recreation, sport, and daily activity.
UHS Athletic Trainers work in a blended environment between University Health Services and University Recreation & Wellbeing to meet you where it is most convenient. Athletic Trainers are available at UHS, the Nicholas Recreation Center, and the Bakke Recreation & Wellbeing Center.
Athletic training is available to students with injuries from workouts, recreation, intramural sports, club sports, running, lifting, or everyday activity. Services are covered under segregated fees and at no additional charge unless imaging or referral is necessary. Costs for imaging and orthopedic products are here.
Make an appointment
Call 608-265-5600 (option 1)
Note: Not all appointments are bookable online. If you don’t see an appointment, call UHS to schedule.
Frequently asked questions
Athletic Training can help you with injuries, pain, or movement concerns related to physical activity, exercise, sport, or daily life.
Students often see an athletic trainer for sprains, strains, joint pain, tendon pain, back pain, shoulder injuries, knee injuries, ankle injuries, running injuries, and lifting injuries. Athletic trainers are also educated on the diagnosis and management of concussions.
Athletic trainers can help with post-operative rehabilitation and longer-term recovery plans. This may include progressing strength, restoring movement, building confidence, modifying activity, and helping students return safely to exercise, sport, recreation, or daily activity.
Athletic trainers can evaluate your concern, provide treatment and rehabilitation, reduce injury risk, and connect you with another UHS service as needed.
Your first visit will start with a conversation about your injury, symptoms, activity level, medical history, and goals. If you had surgery, your athletic trainer will also ask about your procedure, timeline, precautions, and current stage of recovery.
The evaluation may include checking range of motion, strength, balance, function, and activity limitations. Depending on your concern, your athletic trainer may also complete sport, exercise, or activity-specific testing.
After the evaluation, your athletic trainer will talk through what they are seeing and build a care plan with you. Your visit may include rehabilitation exercises, providing a home exercise plan, hands-on treatment, therapeutic modalities, taping, bracing, activity modification, load management, and return to activity planning.
Athletic Training visits are active. Wear clothes that allow you to move and allow access to the injured area when possible.
Athletic Training works closely with the entire healthcare team at UHS to provide healthcare that meets your needs. This may include collaborative care with UHS Primary Care, Nutrition Services, and/or Physical Therapy.
Not sure whether to seek care?
Use our online symptom checker tool, available 24/7 on MyUHS. You can receive clinically supported recommendations based on their symptoms and health concerns.