A majority of schools lack athletic trainers, multi-sskilled health care professionals, who are certified to handle and prevent injuries like concussions and many more. By equipping every school in the United States with these trainers, it is our hope to apply our research and methodology to improve the quality of young athlete’s sports. With your donation, we hope you can be the star player who helps us play smarter, play safer, and play…
Differentiate the roles and responsibilities of the athletic trainer from other medical and allied health professionals.…
“Here We Go, Warriors, Here We Go!” *Clap Clap* “OLE! OLE! OLE! OLE!” “ MVP! MVP!” Do you feel the adrenaline rush! Can you picture the energy from the team on the field, and the fans crowded in the stands! You ask why Athletic Training, and I say because the love of sports and the intrigue of science, which has brought me on the journey to pursue a degree in Athletic Training.…
Please accept this letter as my formal application for the Athletic Training Residency Program at New Hampshire Musculoskeletal Institute. I will complete my Masters of Athletic Training at The University of Findlay in April 2016. I am currently doing coverage under an Athletic Trainer at a rehabilitative intensive clinical rotation at Ohio Orthopaedics, but have previously worked in the Division II collegiate and high school settings. A position within the NHMI Residency Program interests me because it would allow me to acquire more skills and techniques as a newly Certified Athletic Trainer while advancing in the profession. After spending time working with members of Bluffton University, The University of Findlay and Findlay High School…
I interviewed Ben Cleveland, who is the head Athletic Trainer for Oklahoma Baptist University. Athletic Trainers are not technically a field in leadership studies, but this interview was very beneficial to be because I want to be an Athletic Trainer at the high school level. This interview just reassured me that being an Athletic Trainer is truly what I want to do with my life. Before talking about how Ben views leadership, one has to know and understand his background and where he is coming from. Ben is originally from Mobile, Alabama and earned his undergraduate in Science in Athletic Training from the University of Alabama soon after that he obtained a Master’s of Science in Physical Education at Florida State University. Ben started as an assistant athletic trainer at Trevecca Nazarene University for seven years before accepting the job here at Oklahoma Baptist University.…
Athletic trainers are to compasses the prevention, examination, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of emergent, acute or chronic injuries and medical conditions.…
Athletic trainers are health care professionals who work closely with expert physicians to provide emergency care, clinical diagnoses, and therapeutic rehabilitation. Students seeking to become certified must get a degree from an accredited athletic training program. Athletic trainers are constantly on their feet and attending to the athletes. The athletic training job requires an outgoing personality, hardworking mentality, and a driven spirit. To get a better understanding I interviewed Alex Brown who is currently an athletic trainer for the University of Oklahoma Men’s Basketball team.…
To earn this they need to have and a minimum of 1,500 hours of clinical experience under the supervision of a certified athletic trainer and to pass a national exam. Certification and experience are the two most important factors for advancing as an athletic trainer. An individual might begin his career working in a high school and advance to the college level. Working with professional teams is a more difficult goal to reach. Athletic trainers who work with sports teams may travel a great deal, often working in unfamiliar locker rooms or stadiums. Sometimes they work in hot or cold weather, or in wet or muddy…
The most asked question is probably, what is a athletic trainers salary. Well the median salary of a athletic trainer is $42,272, but the salary can range between $38,602-$47,576. What this means is 50% of people make less than $42,272. ("salary." Web). Athletic trainers are highly skilled and qualified health care workers. They work with other physicians to proved care, emergency services, diagnosis and rehabilitation of injured sport players. Athletic trainers are confused with personal trainers all the time. They are not personal trainers work more on fitness and weight training. Athletic trainers follow a strict athletic trainer academic curriculum. ("NATA WEB") . Employment in athletic training is estimated to grow 21 percent in 10 years,…
Harvard and Yale are credited as being the first two universities to hire athletic trainers on staff in order to treat and rehabilitate injuries (Winterstein, 2009). Before this time, coaches and team physicians played the main role in treating and preventing athletic injuries (Winerstein, 2009).…
You are an Athletic Trainer. You are watching a local basketball basketball just in case anybody gets hurt. Then out of nowhere, a player hears a pop in his leg , and is going through a lot of pain. You spring into action and try to help the poor player. Will you get him back into action in no time or will his basketball dreams be ruined forever? As an athletic trainer, you will have a lot of responsibilities. Athletic Trainers help athletes maintain physical health by teaching them how to avoid injuries as well as by treating them. This career is in the medical science class and tasks include treating and preventing injuries, rehabilitating athletes, providing players with medical equipment.…
The National Athletic Trainers Association defines a certified athletic trainer as, “An athletic trainer that encompasses the prevention, examination, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of emergent, acute or chronic injuries and medical conditions.” According to Becoming an Athletic Trainer, “Athletic Trainers (ATs) are health care professionals who collaborate with physicians to give preventive services, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.” An Athletic Trainer plays a significant role in getting athletes back to a confident mental mind-set and elite performance.…
My name is Gia McGee and I am a licensed Athletic trainer in 4 states; California, Georgia, New York and Florida. Since I was a little girl I always had dreams of becoming a doctor, It was not until my senior year of high school when I took a sports medicine class that I found out I wanted to become an Athletic trainer. Once it was time for me to begin college I decided to start off at a community college, I began at Jackson Community College, in Jackson MI after my first year I transferred to SVSU, Saginaw Valley State University to pursue my career in sports medicine in hopes of becoming an athletic trainer. I began taking basic science medicine classes such as Kinesiology, bio-chemics and exercise physiology. I was working towards my bachelor’s…
In fact, recent statistics estimate that approximately 300,000 sports-related traumatic brain or head injuries occur annually in the United States alone. (Riddell, Erika).Because of this, concussions are a significant public health issue due to the frequency of occurrence and the short, as well as long-term consequences that are involved In general, the five “E’s” of injury prevention include epidemiology, education, engineering, enforcement of rules, and evaluation of injury prevention programs.. Therefore, recognition of the signs and symptoms of concussions and some knowledge of the principles of management should be included in the preview of all sport participants, their families, and sports personnel such as coaches, trainers, and…
Each year, approximately 1.6 to 3.8 billion Americans receive concussions from sports and recreational activities . Many of the people suffering from concussions are involved in competitive sports, especially high school sport teams (The Center for Disease Control and Prevention). While participating in a high school sport is normal, the players would not want to miss a game if they did not have to, and many of the players assume that if they go to the athletic trainer as soon as the game is over that the injury cannot get worse throughout the course of the game. This is a common trend among athletes especially high school and college athletes because their lives revolve around the sport and their teammates. Increasing the chances of getting…