Athletic Therapy Calgary
Get Back to Sport and Movement, Built to Handle the Load
What Is Athletic Therapy?
Athletic therapy is a hands-on approach to preventing, assessing, and treating injuries connected to sport, training, and physical activity. It's built for the moment an injury happens and everything that comes after: the acute care, the rehab, and the return.
At Vital Performance Care, athletic therapy goes further than calming down pain. Your therapist looks at how you move, how you load your body, and what your sport or activity actually demands, then builds a plan around getting you back to it with more confidence than before you got hurt.
Injuries Treated with Athletic Therapy
You don't need to be a competitive athlete to work with an athletic therapist. Anyone dealing with an injury from training, sport, or day-to-day activity can benefit, including weekend warriors, recreational league players, and people getting back into movement after time off.
- Acute sprains and strains (ankle, knee, shoulder, wrist)
- Sports-related concussions
- ACL, MCL, and other ligament injuries
- Muscle strains and tears
- Joint dislocations and instability
- Overuse injuries, including tendinopathy, shin splints, and stress reactions
- Contact and collision injuries
- Post-surgical return-to-sport rehab
- Recurring or nagging injuries that flare up with activity
- Pre-season or pre-event injury prevention screening
Athletic Therapy at Vital Performance Care
Built for people who need to get back to moving, training, and competing, not just get out of pain.
Sport-Specific Assessment
Your therapist looks at how the injury happened and what your sport or activity demands from your body.
Acute Injury Management
Treatment is staged to match your healing, from the first 48 hours through full recovery.
Hands-On Treatment
Soft-tissue release, joint mobilization, taping and bracing, IMS (dry needling), and other manual therapy, matched to your injury.
Return-to-Sport Progressions
Functional testing and graded loading confirm you're ready for your sport, not just pain-free in the clinic.
Meet Your Athletic Therapist
Nick Ontkean
Athletic Therapist / Strength Coach
Ready to get back in the game?
Book your athletic therapy appointment today and let our team help you recover, retrain, and return to what you love doing, stronger than before.