Baseball Ireland is excited to announce its partnership with Kevin Bryant, CAT, CAT(C) and Bend Without Breaking Athletic Therapy. With his experience with the Toronto Blue Jays and Baseball Canada, he is a valuable resource for the Irish baseball community.
Under this arrangement, Bend Without Breaking Athletic Therapy will be featured on the Baseball Ireland website and social media. He will produce a regular baseball themed blog, produce baseball themed presentations to our members and be a resource to our national team programs.
Kevin is a Certified Athletic Therapist with Athletic Rehabilitation Therapy Ireland and the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association, and owner of Bend Without Breaking Athletic Therapy, providing virtual sports injury rehabilitation throughout Ireland. After nearly a decade of clinical and on-field experience working directly with baseball teams and players, Kevin brings his experience in helping baseball players understand and recover from their injuries to the members of Baseball Ireland.
While having always played baseball and softball throughout his life, Kevin began his career in baseball with a student internship with the Toronto Blue Jays, where he was present for every home game throughout the 2016 season, working alongside the medical staff in the team’s training room. This experience gave him first hand insight into assessing and managing baseball players, and showed him the realities of keeping players healthy throughout a full season. As part of Baseball Canada’s Junior National Program, Kevin was responsible for the health and wellbeing of the country’s top young players during training camps and international tournaments, assessing injuries, managing rehabilitation, and helping players return to competition. This experience also led to Kevin assisting Softball Canada’s Women’s National Fast Pitch team for two camps.
As a Certified Athletic Therapist in Canada, Kevin has worked clinically with baseball and softball players of all ages and levels, from youth and recreational athletes to competitive players, to assess injuries, develop individualized treatment and rehabilitation plans, and help them return to the field. He has also provided field coverage and coordinated injury management for large multi-day events involving more than 100 young athletes.
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