Dr. Tyler Lesher: Principles for Becoming an Advanced Rehab Provider

In this episode of the Braun Performance & Rehab Podcast, Dan is joined by Dr. Tyler Lesher to discuss his journey as a rehab professional and clinician, the lessons he has learned from treating elite athletes, and how he applies them in his clinical practice. Dan and Tyler also discuss his upcoming cohort of the ARC, in addition to chatting about the "Iso God", Aliens, and more. 


Tyler Lesher enters his third season as the UCLA men’s basketball team’s athletic trainer in 2023-24.
 
In his current role, Lesher handles all day-to-day athletic training responsibilities and oversees multiple sports medicine interns. He joined the UCLA athletic training and sports medicine department in October 2021.
 
Lesher’s work with the men’s basketball program has been vital over the past two years. In 2022-23, UCLA went 31-6 overall and won the Pac-12 Conference’s regular-season crown. In 2021-22, the Bruins went 27-8 overall and finished in second place in the Pac-12 standings. The Bruins advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 in 2022 and 2023.
 
Lesher, who hails from Wyoming, spent the 2020-21 academic year as an assistant athletic trainer at Florida Atlantic University. Prior to his time at FAU, he spent four years working in the NBA and the NBA’s G League.
 
Lesher served as the head athletic trainer/strength and conditioning specialist for the Greensboro Swarm, the Charlotte Hornets’ NBA G League affiliate from August 2017 until November 2020. His first opportunity in the NBA took place with the Cleveland Cavaliers. While in Cleveland (Sept. 2016 until May 2017), Lesher served as an intern athletic trainer. He was the head strength and conditioning/assistant athletic trainer for the Canton Charge, the Cavs’ NBA G League affiliate.
 
After he earned his bachelor’s degree in athletic training from New Mexico State University in 2014, Lesher worked as a men’s basketball graduate assistant athletic trainer for Chico State. He earned his master’s degree in kinesiology at Chico State while on the job from 2014 to 2015.
 
Lesher, 34, is a Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC), Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Certified Orthopedic Physician Extender (OPE-C), Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES) and Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES). He earned his Doctorate in Health Science and Exercise Leadership from California University of Pennsylvania, focusing reducing systemic inflammation through nutrition and exercise, in the fall of 2021. For more on Tyler and the ARC, be sure to check out @dr.tlesh on Instagram or visit advancedrehabcertification.com


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