Skate Smart for Figure Skaters and Hockey Players

Skate Smart is a program designed to help you improve your performance, led by a team of medical professionals with experience in figure skating and hockey. Through this comprehensive assessment and training program, our experts will teach you to increase your flexibility to enhance on-ice performance and decrease risk of injury, as well as incorporate strengthening principles into your training regimen on and off the ice. We can also help improve your jump-landing and take-off control, and boost agility and speed work.

Program Services

  • Figure skating or hockey evaluation, including in-boot and out-of-boot assessments and video analysis
  • Education on body mechanics and physiologic opportunities for improvement
  • Injury risk reduction coaching for in-season and return to season
  • Minimizing off time after an injury
  • Personalized rehabilitation and advice on reducing the risk of re-injury

Skate Smart addresses many common skating injuries including: