Erin
Gordon
EDG Athletic Therapy LTD.
Edmonton
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Erin Gordon is a Certified Athletic Therapist with extensive experience working in sport, injury prevention, rehabilitation, and athlete health. She currently works as the Head Athletic Therapist at NAIT, supporting student-athletes across a variety of sports and leading the delivery of athletic therapy services within the institution. She holds a Master’s degree in Rehabilitation Science from McMaster University and has worked with athletes across university, collegiate, national, and high-performance sport environments. Her clinical experience includes injury assessment and management, rehabilitation, return-to-sport planning, and injury prevention. Erin’s particular area of interest is the relationship between athletic equipment and injury prevention and reduction. She is passionate about understanding how equipment selection, fit, design, and use can influence an athlete’s risk of injury, and how athletic therapists can help identify and address those factors. She enjoys applying clinical knowledge to practical questions around equipment and finding ways to create safer sporting environments for athletes. Erin is also passionate about working with students and emerging athletic therapists and supporting the continued development of athletic therapy within sport and health care.
Camosun College
Field Specialties
Adaptive Sports
Volleyball
Soccer
Rugby
Hockey
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What inspired you to become an Athletic Therapist?
I was an athlete who had just hung up her boots and was looking for a way to stay part of a team. Sport Psychology didn’t feel like the right fit. I wanted something more hands-on and connected to the physical side of sport. Then I found Athletic Therapy, and it felt like the perfect way to combine my love of sport with helping people.
What is the one piece of advice you wish every client knew?
Invest in yourself. Find the people you work well with, build a team you trust, and work the problem. Your recovery is an investment in yourself, and you deserve to be an active part of that process.
What do people find most surprising about AT?
That we work with everyone, not just athletes. Athletic Therapy has applications far beyond the sidelines and locker rooms.
Describe your proudest moment or greatest success as an AT
It’s the little moments. The athlete who trusts you, learns to trust themselves again, and gets back to their sport better than they were before. Those moments when you get to see someone realize what they’re capable of are what make this work so rewarding. And then there are the moments that remind me how lucky I am to do this work: like getting to stand on the sidelines and hear the Canadian National Anthem while representing Canada through sport. Those are pretty cool too.
Share a little known fun fact about yourself
I do so much work in hockey that people often assume that’s the sport I played. When I played I was actually a soccer goalkeeper!
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