Clinical tools built for
athletic trainers

ProtoAT is a clinical platform for credentialed ATCs. Generate treatment protocols. Write SOAP notes, referral letters, and return-to-play documentation. Build venue-specific EAPs. All structured for your scope, your workflow, your EMR.

Restricted to credentialed Athletic Trainers with a verified NPI number.
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Protocol Generator

Enter the injury presentation. Get a complete treatment and rehab protocol — modalities, soft tissue, rehab phases, return-to-play criteria, contraindication checks, and red flags.

14 Injury Types Contraindication DB Hard Redirects
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Documentation Assistant

Generate SOAP notes, RTP progress documentation, referral letters, treatment notes, and Emergency Action Plans — all scoped to ATC practice and EMR-ready.

14 SOAP Templates 10 RTP Protocols EAP Generator
Product 1
Protocol Generator
Every protocol, structured the right way
ProtoAT follows correct athletic training order of operations and cross-references every recommendation against a built-in contraindication database before it reaches you.

Modality Selection

Specific parameters — frequency, intensity, duration, placement — for every modality you have available. Only recommends from your equipment list.

Soft Tissue Sequencing

Ordered soft tissue techniques with pressure grades, direction, duration, and clinical rationale. Follows the correct treatment sequence.

Rehab Progression

Phase-by-phase rehabilitation with exercises, dosing, progression criteria, and measurable benchmarks tied to functional testing standards.

Wound Care Protocols

Wound-specific management — closure decisions, dressing selection, infection monitoring, tetanus flags, and return-to-play coverage.

Concussion RTP

Six-stage graduated return-to-play protocols following Berlin Consensus guidelines, with symptom checklists and physician clearance gates.

Red Flags & Redirects

Automatic detection of presentations requiring physician referral. Hard redirects for surgical cases, emergencies, and out-of-scope conditions.

Coverage
14 injury types with injury-specific logic
Each injury type has its own classification system, conditional form fields, severity-driven protocol rules, and clinical decision trees built into the system prompt.
Sprain
Strain
Contusion
Tendinopathy
Stress Reaction
Concussion
Fracture (Post-Immobilization)
Dislocation / Subluxation
Radiculopathy
Burner / Stinger
Nerve Entrapment
Acute Nerve Injury
Wound Management
How it works
Three steps to a complete protocol
1

Enter the presentation

Select body region, injury type, phase, severity, available modalities, and soft tissue techniques. Conditional fields adapt to each injury type.

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Generate the protocol

ProtoAT cross-references your inputs against its contraindication database and clinical rules, then generates a structured protocol.

3

Review and apply

Review the tabbed output — modalities, soft tissue, rehab phases, criteria and flags — then modify as clinically appropriate for your athlete.

Built-in contraindication enforcement

Every modality and soft tissue recommendation is cross-referenced against a contraindication database covering 20+ modalities and techniques before it reaches the protocol. Hard contraindications are blocked. Conditional contraindications are flagged with modification instructions. This isn't a disclaimer — it's enforced at the system level.

Preview
What a generated protocol looks like
Every protocol follows the same structured format — specific parameters, clinical rationale, and contraindication checks on every recommendation.
ProtoAT Protocol Output
Grade 2 / Moderate Sprain — Lateral Ankle Ligaments
Acute
Ankle / Foot
Basketball
Collegiate
Inversion while landing
Modalities
Soft Tissue
Rehab Phases
Criteria & Flags
Ice / Cryotherapy
15–20 min, crushed ice bag, lateral ankle — AAOS protocol
Frequency: Every 2 hours for first 48 hours, then 3x daily
Vasoconstriction to limit secondary hypoxic injury and reduce inflammatory exudate accumulation.
Game Ready / Cryo-Compression
Medium pressure, 34°F, 20 min on / 20 min off cycles
Frequency: 2–3 cycles per treatment session, 2x daily
Combined cryotherapy and intermittent pneumatic compression for edema control.
⚠ Check: Raynaud's, cold urticaria, impaired sensation, PVD
TENS
Conventional: 80–120 Hz, 60–100 μs, sensory level, 30 min
Frequency: As needed for pain management, pre-exercise
Who it's for
Built for the certified athletic trainer
ProtoAT is restricted to credentialed ATCs with a verified NPI and Athletic Trainer taxonomy. Every aspect of the tool — terminology, protocol structure, treatment sequencing, and clinical logic — is designed for the AT room, not the general public.
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High School ATCs

High-volume settings with limited resources. Protocol generation for common presentations with appropriate adolescent considerations.

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Collegiate ATCs

Sport-specific protocols with return-to-play criteria tailored to competitive demands and multi-sport athlete management.

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Clinical / Outpatient ATCs

Structured rehabilitation progressions with functional testing benchmarks for clinic-based and outpatient settings.

Product 2
Documentation Assistant
Clinical documentation that writes itself
Stop rewriting the same SOAP note from scratch. ProtoAT's Documentation Assistant generates EMR-ready clinical documents from your case details — structured for ATC scope of practice, formatted for direct copy-paste into your EMR.

SOAP Notes

14 condition-specific templates with bracket-selectable findings, severity grading, and ATC-scoped assessment language. Plain text output ready for your EMR.

Return-to-Play Documentation

10 protocol-specific progress note templates following Zurich, NATA, and ACSM guidelines. Step-level language with progression criteria and clearance gates.

Referral Letters

10 specialist-specific referral templates — orthopedic, concussion, cardiology, mental health, imaging, and more. Professional formatting with clinical findings and urgency levels.

Treatment Notes

13 modality-specific templates with device parameters, patient response documentation, and contraindication screening. Built around the Dynatron Solaris Plus 709.

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Scope Language Enforcement

Every document is scanned against a scope-of-practice phrase library. Diagnostic language is automatically converted to ATC-appropriate clinical presentation language.

Clinical Flags

Red flags (EMS activation), yellow flags (physician referral), and documentation quality checks built into every document. Missing fields and scope violations are caught before output.

Coverage
Document types you generate every day
Each document type pulls from a dedicated knowledge base with condition-specific templates, ATC scope language, and EMR-ready formatting rules.
Initial Eval SOAP
Daily Progress SOAP
Concussion RTP Note
Ankle Sprain RTP
ACL Post-Surgical RTP
Orthopedic Referral
Sports Med Referral
PCP Referral
Treatment / Modality Note
Emergency Action Plan
How it works
From case details to EMR in three steps
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Describe the encounter

Provide the clinical details — injury type, findings, special tests, treatment performed, athlete response. Use natural language or structured input.

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Generate the document

The assistant selects the correct template, applies scope language rules, scans for clinical flags, and generates an EMR-ready document in plain text.

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Copy into your EMR

Review the output, make any clinical modifications, and copy-paste directly into your EMR. No markdown, no formatting issues — it's designed for Ochin Epic and similar systems.

Emergency Action Plan Generator Coming Soon

Generate venue-specific EAPs that meet NATA requirements. Enter your venue, personnel, equipment locations, and nearest emergency facility — get a complete, printable EAP with emergency communication chains, equipment inventories, weather protocols, and rehearsal logs. Every setting needs one. Most ATCs are working from an inherited Word doc.

Preview
What a generated SOAP note looks like
EMR-ready plain text with section labels in ALL CAPS. No markdown, no formatting artifacts. Copy and paste directly.
Documentation Assistant Output
SUBJECTIVE
18 y/o male basketball athlete presents with chief complaint of right ankle pain and swelling following inversion injury during practice. Reports hearing a "pop" at time of injury. Pain rated 7/10 at rest. Unable to bear weight immediately post-injury. Denies previous injury to this ankle. No numbness or tingling reported.
OBJECTIVE
Observation: Moderate swelling over lateral malleolus with ecchymosis developing inferior to lateral malleolus. Palpation: TTP over ATFL and CFL. Decreased TTP over posterior malleolus and base of fifth metatarsal. ROM: Dorsiflexion limited to 5 degrees (contralateral 15 degrees). Special Tests: Anterior drawer positive (R), Talar tilt positive (R), Ottawa Ankle Rules negative for fracture.
ASSESSMENT
Clinical presentation consistent with Grade 2 lateral ankle sprain involving ATFL and CFL. Functional deficits noted in weight-bearing and ROM. No findings suggestive of fracture per Ottawa criteria. ...
FAQ
Common questions
Does ProtoAT replace clinical judgment?
No. ProtoAT is a decision-support tool. Every generated protocol requires your independent clinical review and modification before application. You are the clinician — ProtoAT structures the protocol, you make the decisions.
How does the contraindication system work?
ProtoAT maintains a database of hard and conditional contraindications for every modality and soft tissue technique. Before any recommendation is included in a protocol, it's cross-referenced against the athlete's presentation. Hard contraindications are excluded entirely. Conditional ones are flagged with modification instructions.
What happens with presentations that need a physician?
ProtoAT has hard redirect rules for presentations that are outside the AT's independent management scope — ACL Grade 3, femoral neck stress reactions, unreduced dislocations, cauda equina signs, and others. Instead of generating a protocol, it outputs a referral message with the appropriate clinical flags.
Is my NPI number stored or shared?
Your NPI is sent to our verification server to confirm your Athletic Trainer credential against the public NPPES registry. After verification, it is stored only in your browser's session storage for the duration of your visit. It is not stored permanently on any server and is not shared with any third party. When you close the browser, it's gone.
Do I need my own API key?
No. ProtoAT handles all AI processing for you — just verify your NPI, agree to the Terms of Service, and start generating. No external accounts or API keys needed.
How does the Documentation Assistant handle HIPAA?
The Documentation Assistant is designed with a de-identification workflow. You strip protected health information before input — names, dates of birth, medical record numbers — and work with de-identified case details. A step-by-step guide is included. For institutional use with full PHI handling, an enterprise tier with a Business Associate Agreement is planned.
What's the difference between the Protocol Generator and the Documentation Assistant?
The Protocol Generator tells you what to do — it takes an injury presentation and generates a treatment and rehab protocol with specific modality parameters, exercise progressions, and return-to-play criteria. The Documentation Assistant helps you document what you did — it generates SOAP notes, referral letters, RTP progress notes, treatment notes, and EAPs from your clinical encounter details. Different problems, same platform.
Does the Documentation Assistant use ATC-appropriate language?
Yes. Every generated document is scanned against a scope-of-practice language library. Diagnostic language is automatically converted — "diagnosed with ACL tear" becomes "clinical presentation consistent with ACL involvement." It enforces the distinction between clinical findings and physician diagnosis throughout.

Protocols and documentation.
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Protocols