Friday, October 7, 2011

Sports Medicine with Jill Bruder

"For Jill Bruder, Pincher Creek athletic therapist, at Reaction Athletic Therapy, she described the adrenaline surge that pumps through her body when an athlete falls on the field.

Trained as an EMR, Bruder said both herself and members of her team are first responders on the field when an individual injures themselves. For the past 11 years, Bruder—as an athletic therapist—has travelled with the Canadian Professional Rodeo Sports Medicine Team to rodeos across Western Canada.

Just as she has travelled to the Calgary Stampede, Bruder and her team—made up of chiropractors, massage therapists and sports medicine doctors—have visited rodeo events in Edmonton, Stavely and Pincher Creek as well.

"I do take a little bit of pride if I'm at a rodeo and I, for instance, tape somebody's knee and they ride for 8 seconds and win the rodeo," she explained. "I helped that happen, whether or not it's true, I don't know, but I always like to think it is.""

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