Ithaca College

Associate Professor and Director of Athletic Training Education, Paul R. Geisler, EdD, ATC recently visited the Institute of Technology, Carlow in Ireland to continue work on IC's International Academic Exchange and to give an invited lecture to the faculty and students of their Athletic Rehabilitation & Therapy program.

The Athletic Training Education program is now in year 3 of a formal academic exchange with the Athletic Therapy and Rehabilitation (ARTI) program at the Institute of Technology at Carlow, County Carlow, in Ireland. The full academic-clinical exchange in athletic training education is one of only a few such programs in existence in the country. Each fall, 2 senior athletic training majors from IC spend their semester studying and gaining clinical education experiences with patients in their outpatient clinic and Gaelic Athletic Association athletes (hurling and Gaelic football), and each spring, two 4th year ARTI students travel to IC to study and practice clinically with our athletic training faculty and Department of Athletics certified athletic trainers. 

Over the last week of September, Dr. Geisler travelled to Carlow to work with the ARTI faculty on clinical education issues, potential research projects, and program administration. While there, he was invited to present a clinical sports medicine talk to the faculty and students of their program and presented his research on a new, evidence-informed paradigm for iliotibial band pathology in running based athletes which was well received.