The ESSA membership

ESSA accredited members work under a code of ethics in a diversity of settings such as fitness centres, hospitals, rehabilitation and aged care centres, workplaces, sports medicine centres, academies of sport, universities and health promotion agencies. They also work with individuals on a personalised basis through referral from medical and allied health practitioners and through direct public contact.
 

Services provided by members include: assessment and evaluation for health or performance, exercise counselling, general exercise management and prescription, movement rehabilitation, analysis and design of specific training programs and applied and clinical research. The work of ESSA members may however be categorised as being in the area of either: preventative health, post-acute exercise or sports performance enhancement.