Cross Education with the Post-Rehabilitation Process
by Brianna Simmons, Jazmine Woods, and Ronald L. Snarr, PhD, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT
Personal Training Quarterly
December 2020
Vol 7, Issue 3
During the rehabilitation process, a client may need therapy outside of the personal trainer’s scope of practice. This article discusses safe and effective modalities that personal trainers can use with clients in the post-rehabilitation phase process.
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