Sports Physical Therapy Residencies and Fellowships

The American Physical Therapy Association defines each as follows:

Residency: A planned program of post-professional clinical and didactic education that is designed to advance significantly the physical therapist's preparation as a provider of patient care services in a defined area of clinical practice. A sports physical therapy residency program is based on the latest Description of Specialty Practice (DSP) of Sports physical therapy.

Fellowship: A post-professional, funded, and planned learning experience in a focused area of physical therapist clinical practice, education, or research (not infrequently post-doctoral, post-residency prepared, or board-certified physical therapists).

The number of credentialed sports physical therapy residency and fellowship programs continues to grow. The following is a list of credentialed programs as of the fall of 2006.

Credentialed Sports Physical Therapy Residency & Fellowship Programs
Updated Spring 2010:

Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Sports Physical Therapy
Gundersen Lutheran Sports Medicine
3100 South Kinney Coulee Rd
Onalaska, WI 54650
Contact: J. Scott Straker, PT, MS, SCS, ATC
Contact Phone: 608/796-8600
Fax: 608/796-8614
E-mail: sstraker@gundluth.org

University of Delaware Sports Physical Therapy
University of Delaware Physical Therapy Clinic
301 McKinly Lab
Newark, DE 19716
Contact: Airelle O. Hunter-Giordano, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS
Contact Phone: 302/831-8893
Fax: 302/831-4468
E-mail: aohunter@udel.edu

Credentialed Sports Physical Therapy Fellowship Programs:

Sports Division 1 Athletics Physical Therapy Fellowship
Duke University Medical Center
Department of PT and OT
PO Box 3965
Durham, NC 27710
Contact: Bob Bruzga, PT, OCS, SCS, ATC
Contact Phone: 919/684-1844
Fax: 919/668-6105
E-mail: bruzg001@mc.duke.edu