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Athletics Rehabilitation Center

Year Opened: 2011

Athletics Rehabilitation Center
The Kennesaw State Department of Athletics unveiled their Rehabilitation Center in October 2011, adding an important aspect to the Owls Sports Medicine operation. Associate Athletic Trainer and Rehabilitation Coordinator Chris Archambeault saw the need for a rehabilitation facility on campus when he first started with Kennesaw State five years ago.

“I saw that we were having to outsource most of our post-surgical rehabs to physical therapy clinics because we just didn’t have the space or the equipment to do the rehab that we needed to do,” Archambeault said. “I thought we were doing a disservice to our student-athletes by not being able to rehab them the way we wanted to. When I found out we were getting the space in the Convocation Center, I wanted to limit our outsourcing of rehabs. I wanted us to be able to do all of our rehabs in house to build that relationship with our coaches and our student-athletes, to help them get back to their teams faster by doing everything here. That was our main goal with our rehab center.”

Logistics also worked in the department’s favor. The recent construction of the brand-new weight room, which tripled in size and is now housed in the department’s indoor practice facility, opened up the original facility for the Rehabilitation Center to be built in.

In getting the facility ready for use, it was important to ensure that the equipment critical to student-athlete rehabilitation were in place.

“The space that we have is very generous, but we needed to make sure we were making the most out of it, so we picked out the big machines that would help us out the quickest," said Archambeault. "The Shuttle Recovery, the Impulse Machine and a multi-hip machine that we have in here can work just about every major muscle group and every stabilizing muscle group, so it was critical that based the facility around those three machines.

The Rehabilitation Center will continue to improve the overall well-being and health of student-athletes at KSU.