Athletic Trainers

Evaluate, advise, and treat athletes to assist recovery from injury, avoid injury, or maintain peak physical fitness.

Job Task

• Instruct coaches, athletes, parents, medical personnel, and community members in the care and prevention of athletic injuries.
• Lead stretching exercises for team members prior to games and practices.
• Perform team-support duties such as running errands, maintaining equipment, and stocking supplies.
• Recommend special diets in order to improve athletes' health, increase their stamina, and/or alter their weight.
• Travel with athletic teams in order to be available at sporting events.
• Advise athletes on the proper use of equipment.
• Apply protective or injury preventive devices such as tape, bandages, or braces to body parts such as ankles, fingers, or wrists.
• Assess and report the progress of recovering athletes to coaches and physicians.
• Care for athletic injuries using physical therapy equipment, techniques, and medication.
• Collaborate with physicians in order to develop and implement comprehensive rehabilitation programs for athletic injuries.
• Conduct an initial assessment of an athlete's injury or illness in order to provide emergency or continued care, and to determine whether they should be referred to physicians for definitive diagnosis and treatment.
• Develop training programs and routines designed to improve athletic performance.
• Massage body parts in order to relieve soreness, strains, and bruises.
• Plan and implement comprehensive athletic injury and illness prevention programs.
• Accompany injured athletes to hospitals.
• Conduct research and provide instruction on subject matter related to athletic training or sports medicine.
• Confer with coaches in order to select protective equipment.
• Evaluate athletes' readiness to play, and provide participation clearances when necessary and warranted.
• Inspect playing fields in order to locate any items that could injure players.

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