Athletic Trainers
Bay Area Athletic Sports Trainers
Athletic Trainers (ATs) are multi-skilled healthcare professionals who care for patients alongside physicians. Our athletic and sports trainers focus on the diagnosis and rehabilitation of injuries, emergency sideline care, as well as preventative and corrective exercise prescription. When working collaboratively with Sports Medicine Physicians, ATs are central to achieving successful treatment.
Athletic Trainers are sometimes confused with Personal Trainers. However, the two have very different training and skills. The Athletic Training academic curriculum and clinical training follow the medical model. Trainers are required to graduate from an accredited baccalaureate or master’s program and 70% have a master’s degree.
Athletic Trainers shorten rehabilitation times for patients, which translates into less time missed from work, school or activity. In addition, our sports trainers are able to evaluate and improve functional movements in a way that ultimately decreases reinjury rates and reduces healthcare costs.
Athletic Training Conditions Treated:
- Acute and chronic injuries (sprains, strains, stress injuries, joint dysfunctions, etc)
- Gait dysfunction
- Brace fitting
- Concussion management and education
Athletic Training Services Offered:
- Musculoskeletal evaluation and diagnosis of injury
- Functional and Athletic Performance Assessments
- Musculoskeletal rehabilitation
- Injury and re-injury mitigation
- Manual therapies (ART, ASTYM, Myofascial Decompression)
- Running gait analysis
- Recovery therapy (Recovery Pump, Compex)
- Bracing and taping
Our Athletic Training Performance & Recovery Program
Let us help you build stability, mobility, and strength to perform at the optimal level of your body’s capabilities. Our team meets you where you are and helps to build the foundation necessary to achieve your goals.
Who is our Athletic Training Program for?
- Individuals who need (re)introduction to weight training
- Competitive athletes with current or chronic injury
- Individuals with mobility issues
- Gait deficiencies
This is not for patients suffering from an immediate injury. If that is you, please schedule a consultation, for an assessment that includes both medical and athletic training in the Bay Area, so we can assess your needs.
You will leave with:
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A better understanding of body awareness, limitations, asymmetries, or weaknesses.
- A full written assessment of the findings and functional scores if applicable
- At home fundamentals exercise program after the initial assessment.
We build customized plans, meeting you where you are in your training.
Training Novice: 1 on 1 in-person coaching from an athletic trainer, full-body functional assessment, formalized plan customized fit for your goals/needs, gait analysis, a mobile app with exercise videos to help further your knowledge and participation at home.
Experienced Athletes: 1 on 1 in-person coaching from an athletic trainer, Functional Movement Screen (FMS) and Y balance functional assessment, running gait analysis (for running athletes), performance training specific to improving asymmetries/weak points of your training, mobile app with exercise videos customized to continue your training while at home, on the field, at the gym.
Length: 1.5 hours
Small Group Training
– Want to work out but scared of getting injured?
– Intimidated by where to start in gyms?
– Wish you could train one-on-one with someone who knows how to help you work out safely, but frustrated by inaccessible prices?
With Avid Sports Medicine’s Small Group Training, you will build Strength, Stability, and Mobility under the close guidance of a sports medicine professional in a small format class, while still having workouts tailored to your body and its specific needs.
Here’s what you get!
- Access to 8 sessions/month. Choose what works for your schedule
- Personalized attention with tailored workouts
- Small group size
- All equipment provided
- Video based home program to do on your own
- Peer support. Build community. Have fun!
All for the monthly price that’s less than one regular training session at other gyms.
Avid Sports Medicine Athletic Trainers
Julieta M. Guzman, MA, ATC, SFG1, FRCms
Certified Athletic Trainer
Julieta joins our sports medicine team as an experienced athletic trainer and has worked with many elite athletes, including NFL players and Olympians. Her rehabilitative approach focuses on joint and muscle mobility, stability of the spine and pelvis, mitigation and recognition of injuries, and return to sport protocol and testing.
Julieta has previous collegiate athletic training experience as a graduate assistant at Stanford from 2008-2010 in which she worked with football and track and field. She left Stanford to become the assistant athletic trainer with football at the University of California, Berkeley from 2010-2013. She eventually left Cal to work with active-duty Marines and sailors in San Diego.
Elizabeth Packwood, MS, LAT, ATC
Certified Athletic Trainer
Elizabeth is thrilled to join Avid Sports Medicine with over five years of experience as an Athletic Trainer. She brings experience from a varied background in high school, collegiate, and surgical orthopedic as well as physical therapy clinic settings.
Originally from New England, Elizabeth received her undergraduate degree in 2016 from Boston University and completed her Master’s Degree in Human Physiology from her alma mater in 2019. She moved to the west coast for the first time at the end of July 2021 and is excited for her new adventures in the Bay Area, (and no more cold winters!)
Allison Pastor
Athletic Trainer
Allison has collegiate athletic training experience from University of California, San Diego. As director of rehab science, she is responsible for creation of baseline objective criteria, identifying injury risk, implementation of injury risk mitigation interventions and case management of all long-term injuries. Allison leads an interdisciplinary approach to return to sport for Triton scholar-athletes.
Our other specialties at AVID Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine Physicians are medical doctors with special training in preventing, diagnosing and treating issues and injuries that keep you from being active.
Physical Therapy
Physical Therapists are movement experts who help people improve and maintain function and achieve goals.
Chiropractic
Chiropractors are healthcare practitioners with specific training in the musculoskeletal system, the combination of our bones, muscles and joints.
Sports Massage
Sports Massage is targeted bodywork and manual manipulation with the specific goal of improving athletic function.
Dr. Jow is an absolutely amazing doctor – one of the best I’ve ever had experience with. She is not only an empathetic and thoughtful listener, but she is incredibly knowledgeable and comprehensive in her care. She doesn’t just recommend from a generic list,she tailors to you and who you are and the whole of what is going on. I had a knee injury which can be really hard to pinpoint, and she was so great about not just healing it but also appreciating my activity goals. She also has the best team! Julieta’s knowledge of muscular systems is astounding. All people should have this level of care.
Athletic Training
in San Francisco
Avid Sports Medicine offers athletic training services to neighborhoods in San Francisco, East Bay, North Bay, South Bay, and The Peninsula.