How to stay fit

• Certified Athletic Trainer
• Physical education
• Orthopedic surgery
• Exercising benefits

Certified Athletic Trainer The Certified Athletic Trainer (AT) is an performance, and strong decision making allied health care professional that is skills  through  education  and  training. certified by the Board of Certification, Inc. (BOC). Certified Athletic Trainers are also Places  of  Employment sometimes referred to as sports therapists or sports medicine practitioners and are the Certified Athletic Trainers can be found centerpiece of the sports medicine team. They almost anywhere people are active. Whether serve as a liasson to the athlete, coach, it's on the playing field or in the physician and other supplemental personnel industrial setting, Certified Athletic providing care to athletes sustaining Trainers are in place to help active people physical or emotional trauma. Specifically, avoid injuries, embrace health and wellness, the Certified Athletic Trainer's role and perform to the best of their abilities. delineation  encompasses  six  domains: Certified Athletic Trainers are employed in secondary schools, intercollegiate athletics, Athletic Injury Prevention and Risk professional athletics, sports medicine Management clinics, the military, or industrial and commercial settings. Hospitals and health Recognition, Evaluation and Assessment of clubs are also venues that create job Injuries  and  Illnesses opportunities for Certified Athletic Trainers. Immediate  Care  of  Injuries Athletic  Training  Education Treatment, Rehabilitation and Reconditioning Athletic Training Education Programs are Health  Care Organization and Administration accredited by the [Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education] Professional  Development and Responsibility (CAATE). Entry level athletic training education uses a competency-based approach in As a part of the complete sports medicine both the classroom and clinical settings. team, the Certified Athletic Trainer works Using a medical based education model, under the direction of a licensed physician athletic training students are educated to and in cooperation with other health care serve in the role of physician extenders, professionals, athletics administrators, with an emphasis on clincal reasoning skills. coaches  and  parents. Educational competencies are bases on cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skill), A day in the life of a Certified Athletic affective competencies (professional Trainer behavior), and clinical proficiencies (practice oriented outcomes). Students must Certified Athletic Trainers are highly receive instruction in the foundational involved in the day to day processes of courses of human physiology, human anatomy, professional, intercollegiate, or high school exercise physiology, kinesiology athletics. They are responsible for the biomechanics, nutrition, acute care of injury preparation and maintenance of athletes that and illness, statistics and research design, are poised for competition. Some duties of a and strength training and reconditioning. The Certified  Athletic  Trainer  will  include: student must be introduced to professional coursework that encompasses the following Prepping athletes for practice or competition domains: including taping, bandaging, bracing or applying  other  forms  of  risk  management Risk  management Evaluating injuries to determine the best Pathology  of  injury/illness course of action in regard to the health and welfare  of  the  athlete Assessment  of  injury/illness Developing and implementing conditioning General  medical conditions and disabilities programs Therapeutic  modalities Implementing treatment and rehabilitation programs Therapeutic  exercise Certified Athletic Trainers that are not Health  care  administration integrated in the athletics community may function as a sports rehabilitation Weight  management  and  body  composition specialist. The sports rehabilitation specialist spends their days in a private, Psychosocial  intervention  and  referral corporate or hospital based rehabilitation clinic constructing rehabilation protocols, Medical  ethics  and  legal  issues monitoring therapeutic exercise regimens and performing treatments with the various Pharmacology therapeutic modalities that may be offered for patient care. A Certified Athletic Professional development and Trainer must have a strong knowledge of the responsibilities. human anatomy and health and human 1 A B C D 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 104 105 106 107 108 109