1. The Athletic Health Care Team
Athletic Training
The Athletic Health Care Team

2. Athletic Training What is Athletic Training?
Branch of medicine concerned with the medical aspects of sports participation.
History of sports medicine:
Dates back to the Greek and Roman times where there were athletes, coaches, trainers(personnel who helped the athlete reach top physical condition) and physicians who assisted the athletes to reach optimum performance.

3. Early Athletic Training
Many of those earlier athletic trainers were persons of questionable background and experience. As a result it has taken many years to attain the status of a well- qualified allied health care professional.

4. Evolution of the Athletic Trainer
Athletic Training has traditionally been known as the field that is concerned with athlete’s health and safety.
Training refers to the act of coaching or teaching
Trainer refers to someone who trains dogs or horses.
The evolution of the athletic trainer occurred rapidly after WWI with the appearance of athletic trainer in intercollegiate athletics.

5. During this time period the major influence in developing the athletic trainer as a specialist in preventing and managing athletic injures from the work of Dr. S. E. Bilik. Dr. Bilik wrote the first major text on athletic training and care of athletic injuries call the Trainer’s Bible in 1917.
In 1920s the Cramer family (Gardner, Kansas) started a chemical company producing liniment to treat ankle sprains. Cramer then began publishing the Fist Aider in This began the early development of the Athletic Training profession.
In 1950 the first meeting of various athletic trainers from the country officially formed the NATA where the professional standards were formed.

6. Sports Medicine What is Sports Medicine?
Branch of medicine concerned with the medical aspects of sports participation.
Sports Medicine is defined as a field that uses a holistic, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary approach the health care for those engaged in sport or recreational activity.
Define: Holistic-Dealing with wholes (integrated system) rather than the part.
Comprehensive-to grasp the entire scope
Multidisciplinary-studying or using several specialized subjects or skills

7. Sports Medicine Team Who makes up the sports medicine team? Athlete
Athletic Trainer
Coach
Parents
Physicians
Physicians Assistants
Strength/Conditioning Coach
Sports Psychologist
Nutritionist
Exercise Physiologist

8. Types of Physicians
Orthopedist- treats injuries and disorders of the musculoskeletal system
Neurologist- treats injuries that occurs to the nervous system
Internist-treats diseases and injuries of the internal organs.
Ophthalmologist-manage and treats eye problems(optometrist provides glasses/contacts)
Psychiatrist- deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness.

9. Roles of Members Physicians role: Compiling medical history
Diagnosing injuries
Deciding on disqualifications
Attending games
Commitment to sports

10. Athletic Trainers role:
Defined by the domains established by NATA
Injury prevention and risk management
Recognition, evaluation, and assessment of injuries
Immediate care of injuries and illnesses
Rehabilitation and reconditioning of athletic injuries
Health care organization and administration
Professional development and responsibility
Holistic: Recognize, evaluate, care, rehabilitation, recondition of an injury ( holistic because it is the whole system and not just one aspect of an injury)
Comprehensive- risk management, rehabilitation, organization, administration, professional development (comprehensive because it covers a wide area or many things)
Multidisciplinary- anatomy, physiology, psychology, first aid, modalities, teaching, organization, administration (multidisciplinary because is covers several specialized subjects or skill set)

11. Becoming an Athletic Trainer
Courses taken to become an Athletic Trainer from a CAATE program:
Human Anatomy
Human Physiology
Exercise Physiology
Kinesiology/Biomechanics
Nutrition
Statistics/Research Design
Strength Training and Reconditioning
Acute Care of Injury and Illnesses
Risk Management
Pathology of injury/illness
Assessment of injury/illness
General Medical conditions
Therapeutic Modalities
Therapeutic Exercise and Rehabilitation
Health care administration
Psychosocial intervention and referral
Medical ethics and legal issues
Pharmacology
Professional development and responsibilities

12. Taking the National Exam and/or State Exam
In addition to the formal education there is a Clinical Rotation over a course of a minimum of 2 years. Locations include
Colleges/Universities
Secondary Schools
Professional Sports
Physical Therapy Clinics
Industrial Settings
Hospitals
Olympic Sports
Taking the National Exam and/or State Exam

13. Maintaining Professional Certification
As an Allied Health Professional, the athletic trainer must be an active member in professional organizations. The purpose of those organizations include
To upgrade the field (of athletic training) by devising and maintaining a set of professional standards including a code of ethics.
Bring together professionally competent individuals to exchange ideas, stimulate research, and promote critical thinking.
To give individuals an opportunity to work as a group with singleness of purpose, thereby making it possible for them to achieve objectives that separately they could not accomplish.

14. Professional Organizations
NATA- National Athletic Trainer Association
SWATA- Southwest Athletic Trainer Association
TSATA- Texas Athletic Trainer Association
GHATS- Greater Houston Athletic Trainer Association
ACSM- American College of Sports Medicine
AOSSM- American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine
NSCA- National Strength and Conditioning Association