IPC Services
IPC’s certified athletic trainers are multi-skilled professionals prepared to help understand and manage your physical health. IPC provides taping, first aid, rehabilitation and therapeutic exercises, concussion testing and recommendations, stretching resources, anatomy education, injury evaluations and heat packs.
Injury Prevention
Athletic trainers are educated and trained in injury and illness prevention in order to improve a patron’s safety and well-being. This knowledge of prevention can be for a variety of injury types ranging from minor to severe. Prevention strategies include but are not limited to taping, wrapping, and bracing.
Examination, Assessment & Diagnosis
Athletic trainers are educated and trained to evaluate and diagnose a variety of injuries and illnesses. Based on this evaluation, athletic trainers can help create a treatment plan to best assist in a patron’s recovery. Evaluations include but are not limited to acute, subacute, and chronic injuries, muscular injuries, skeletal injuries, first aid injuries and general medical injuries.
Immediate & Emergency Care
Athletic trainers are educated and trained to provide standard immediate and emergency care procedures to patients for both life-threatening and non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses. Immediate care also includes first-aid and wound care as well.
Therapeutic Intervention
Athletic trainers are educated and trained to provide therapeutic interventions for a variety of injuries or illnesses. Based on this assessment, athletic trainers can determine the appropriate treatment to reduce the extent of a patient’s injury. Therapeutic interventions can include but are not limited to home exercise rehabilitation, taping and manual therapy.
FAQs
Yes. IPC is able to provide preventative taping. In order to ensure there is enough time to be tapped prior to your game, please arrive at the IPC Clinic (located next to the Conditioning Room) at least 30 minutes prior to your game. No equipment or jewelry will be tapped.
Yes. IPC is available for all students, faculty and staff for injuries regardless of where they occur. You do not have to be injured within one of CRI’s parks and facilities to be seen by IPC.
If you are experiencing a medical emergency, please call 911 or head to the nearest urgent care or the emergency room. IPC staff does not give out medication, so please bring anything you may need with you.
Depending on injury severity, IPC can take you through rehab plans and exercises during office hours or provide personalized home exercise programs for patients. If your injury requires more intensive, one-on-one care, we recommend being seen by a physician through Georgia Southern University Health Services.
At this time, cupping is only offered to Club Sports athletes. We are currently working to get it offered to all CRI members and guests.
No. Deep tissue massage is done by massage therapists. IPC uses pin-point palpation to locate injuries and tissue quality within a muscle.
No, but IPC offers a variety of stretching resources and information.
Find the Service You Need
Take the next steps to get help from the athletic trainers at IPC.
- Email Kiersten Kuhlman: kkuhlman@georgiasouthern.edu
- Email Makenzie Maples: mmaples@georgiasouthern.edu
- Office Number: 912-478-7230
