Fanchon Ohlrogge joined the Mizzou Sports Medicine staff in December 2020 as an associate director of sports medicine working with the Tiger gymnastics team.
Ohlrogge came to Columbia from the athletic medicine staff at the University of Minnesota where she was an assistant athletic trainer with the Golden Gophers men’s gymnastics team and men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams from August 2017-December 2020.
During her time at Minnesota, she helped develop and facilitate the Injury Resiliency Group with the sport psychology staff from Fall 2018-20. Ohlrogge also assisted in the data collection for research studies with Minnesota's department of physical therapy and athletics’ teams. The first entitled Impact of Multidirectional Glenohumeral Laxity of Performance and Self-Reported Function in NCAA Division 1 Swimmers. Results of this study have been presented at the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Virtual National Conference 2020 and published in the Journal of Athletic Training. Second, a study entitled Glenohumeral Joint Rotational ROM Characteristics and Injury Patterns in a Division I Men’s Gymnastics Team.
Overlapping with her time at Minnesota, Ohlrogge began working with USA Gymnastics Trampoline & Tumbling National teams in May 2018. When Ohlrogge is not in-season with her NCAA teams, she enjoys working with Team USA for national and international competitions and camps. These experiences have included several World Championships, World Cups, as well as the 2019 Pan American Games and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Ohlrogge’s USA Gymnastics experience has broadened to include Rhythmic, Women’s and Men’s Artistic national team events over the years.
Prior to joining the Gophers, Ohlrogge earned a bachelor of science in athletic training with a minor in German at South Dakota State University in 2013. After graduating from SDSU, she served as graduate assistant athletic trainer for the men’s and women’s cross country/track and field teams at Fresno State, while earning a master’s in kinesiology - sport psychology in 2015.
Ohlrogge also completed a thesis focusing on the psychology of sport injury entitled: The Effect of the Psycho-emotional Profile of Athletes Who Continue to Participate with Sport Injury on Rehab Adherence and Performance Effort and presented research findings at the 2016 Association for Sport Psychology Annual Conference. Following graduate school, Ohlrogge served as an intern athletic trainer at Ohio State, working primarily with the Buckeyes women’s gymnastics, men’s and women’s fencing teams, and assisting with men’s gymnastics and wrestling from 2015-17.
Ohlrogge holds certifications in Graston Technique M1, Fascial Movement Taping (FMT) Level 2, Blood Flow Restriction Rehabilitation and has been a member of the National Athletic Training Association (NATA) since 2012 and Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) 2016-2017.
Clinical Interests:
• Sport Psychology/Psychology of Sport Injury
• Overuse Injuries & Management
• Management of Upper Extremity Injuries Specific to Overhead Athletes
• Manual Therapy Techniques
