Carrie Cameron, DPT, ATC
Education and Professional Highlights
- Doctor of Physical Therapy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Masters of Athletic Training, Western Michigan University
- Bachelors of Science, University of Nevada, Reno
- Certified Athletic Trainer since 1997
- Certified in Graston Technique since 2007
Bio
Dr. Carrie Cameron has always been fascinated with mixing the world of art with science, which is reflected in her professional skills and demonstrated in the positive outcomes of her patients. The foundation of her clinical approach is the belief that the body is beautifully made and masterfully crafted to do amazing things. As a result of her passion for sports and dance medicine, she has a history of successfully guiding athletes and dancers through an injury and back to personal peak performance. She utilizes treatment techniques across a multidisciplinary spectrum tailored to treat the person as a whole. These techniques include manual therapy, exercise prescription and biomechanics that not only help her patients reach their healthy living goals, but contribute to a foundation of sustainable performance.
Her career has taken her to both coasts and across the country working with athletes, dancers and performers at all levels. After returning home to the Reno/Tahoe area, Dr. Cameron founded Sports & Performance Physical Therapy to bring dance and sports medicine to the area’s vast community of performers and athletes. Drawing on best practices from around the country, Sports & Performance Physical Therapy represents a next-generation medical office which offers optimal rehabilitation support to athletes and dancers.
Dr. Carrie Cameron has also established Sports & Performance Physical Therapy as a teaching facility. Having benefitted from the mentoring of some amazing clinicians and colleagues along her professional career path, Dr. Cameron sees the importance of teaching the next generation of professionals in this constantly evolving field. She is a Certified Clinical Instructor with the American Physical Therapy Association and believes in supporting teaching and mentorship programs. “…teaching can be rewarding in and of itself, but also keeps the practice on the leading edge of new techniques which facilitate sports and dance therapy”.
In her spare time, Carrie enjoys the outdoors with her wonderful husband, Marshall and their son, William. She appreciates her daily run for both its physical and mental joys and fits in a 5K or half marathon when she can.