SIM CRE #1
Why is athletic training considered a team endeavor? Contrast the coach's, athletic trainer's, and team physician's roles in athletic training.
Athletic training is a team endeavor. It takes multiple people with different roles all working synergistically to create a great sports medicine team. The coach has multiple roles to fulfill. First, they are directly responsible for preventing injuries by seeing that athletes have undergone a preventative injury conditioning program. Second, they are to ensure that sports equipment is of high quality and that it's fitted properly. Third, maintenance of protective equipment is important. Fourth, the coach needs to be certified in first aid, CPR, and AED. Fifth, they need a thorough understanding of the skill techniques and environmental factors that may affect their athletes. And finally, they need to be involved in decision making process concerning athletes in conjunction with the team physician and athletic trainer. The team physician has a multiple roles and responsibilities, all focused on patient health and medical documents. First, the team physician is ultimately responsible for directing the total health care of the athlete. They are to supervise an advise the athletic trainer. Further, the team physician compiles medical histories, diagnoses injuries, decides on disqualifications and return to play, attends practices and games, commits to the sports and the athlete, and can lead an academic program. The athletic trainer has the responsibilities of: conducting pre-participation physical examinations, developing training and conditioning programs, ensuring a safe playing environment by minimizing safety hazards, selecting fitting and maintains protective equipment, explaining the importance of diet and lifestyle choices, using medications appropriately, understanding the pathology of injuries and illness, referring to medial care, referring to support services, trained in CPR and AED used by the American Red Cross , certified in first aid, have establish and well-defined emergency action plans, designing and supervising rehabilitation programs, incorporating therapeutic modalities, offering psychosocial intervention, keep up with record keeping, ordering equipment and supplies, supervising personnel, establishing policies for the operation of an athletic trading program, and continues to perform the following roles: educator, counselor, and researcher.
How do modern athletic training and sports medicine compare with early Greek and Roman approaches to the care of the athlete?
Early approaches to patient care were focused around using rubs, counterirritants, and occasionally prescribing home remedies and poultices. There was not a lot of technical knowledge present, so the care as focused around theory and what they may have seen work previously. Modern athletic training has evolved into an evidence-based, well-qualified allied health care profession. Modern athletic training is focused on injury prevention as well as managing injuries in a more medically based fashion. Athletic training now encompasses the prevention, examination, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of emergent, acute, or chronic injuries and medical conditions.
What qualifications should the athletic trainer have in terms of education, certification, and personality?
Education:
Define evidence based practice as it relates to athletic training clinical practice.
Evidence-based practice is making clinical care decisions based on supporting evidence available in the literature. The athletic training clinical practice needs to be based on evidence that is available in professional literature. Each patient should have treatments and rehabilitation based off of their values and preferences, as well as based on professional literature and the athletic trainer's clinical experience.
What professional organizations are important to the field of athletic training?
NATA: National Athletic Trainers' Association FIMS: International Federation of Sports Medicine AAFP: American Academy of Family Physicians ACSM: American College of Sports Medicine AOSSM: American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine NSCA: National Strength and Conditioning Association American Academy of Pediatrics, Sports Committee APTA: American Physical Therapy Association, Sports Physical Therapy Section NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports NASM: National Academy of Sports Medicine
