University of South Carolina Aiken and am extremely excited to begin my athletic training journey. I received my bachelor's in exercise and sports science in just three years. During my final semester at Aiken, I was given the opportunity to intern with our athletic trainer (200+ hours). Throughout my internship, I observed different techniques, evaluations, and injuries across multiple sports. I assisted the head athletic trainer with baseball, softball, and men's basketball games over the spring semester
medicine in order to become an athletic trainer. Sports medicine focuses on helping people improve their athletic performance and to demonstrate proper eating and health habits to perform at their highest ability. Not only will i work with sports team, i will work with normal everyday people and at health and rehabilitation centers. As an athletic trainer I will provide and administer first aid practices and share my knowledge with coaches and upcoming athletic trainers. I will strive to receive at
sense of fulfillment and difference. A big change happens in life once a person finds out what their best qualities and traits are. It can make or break their career, their relationships, their hobbies, and many other aspects of their life. Athletic trainers help with injury prevention and treatment, they frequently collaborate closely with athletes. They are capable of working in a range of contexts, such as outpatient therapy, primary care, illness and injury prevention, wellness promotion and
Career Interview I interviewed Courtney Ferry, an athletic trainer here at Minnesota State University-Mankato. Courtney works with a lot of the athletes here at MSU-Mankato, and that is how I have gotten to know her. I had her as an athletic trainer last year, and she has gotten me very interested in becoming an athletic trainer. I was a little uncertain what the typical day was like for an athletic trainer. Courtney told me that most of her day is very, very busy. She starts out her day getting
career in sports and physical education. This career has many different occupations as there is a wide range of sports in as well as outside of the U.S . The two careers my paper will be about are Athletic Trainer and a Nutritionist. The first job I am going over is the Athletic Trainer . An Athletic Trainer is someone who is certified and licensed for health care and is a professional who practices in the field of sports medicine. They train their players to not get hurt in the game and act as a manager
Becoming a student athletic trainer is helpful to someone for many reasons. In my case, this opportunity would assist me in gaining extensive knowledge of sports medicine and the human body as a whole. For example, the unique experiences contained in this position would teach me about different types of injuries, treatment plans, and the different needs of each sport. The fact that I'm helping athletes recover from their injuries would allow me to see my work in a tangible way that is not available
Athletic Trainer Out of all the year round sports 1 in every 5 athlete gets injured. Athletic trainers help heal these athletes and prevent future injuries. The trainers need to be familiarized with the athletes they are working with and make an annual wage of about $42,000. An athletic trainer is useful for on the spot health care, treatment of muscle and bone injuries, and any other sport care needs. To become an athletic trainer a bachelors degree from a college or university is required. Master
A good number of today 's athletic trainers were former athletes and were introduced to athletic training by their own injury and rehabilitation process. My reasoning for becoming an athletic trainer, like most of today 's athletic trainers, I have been injured and treated by and athletic trainer. And become of that, I would like to be an athletic trainer. Within 10 years I would like to be done with college with a bachelor 's degree in athletic training. Also, I would like to be married and
“Within Division I athletics, women hold 46.4% of graduate assistant and 47% of assistant athletic trainer positions, yet only 18.8% of head athletic trainer positions” (Burton, 2012, p. 304). That fact only displays the results for female athletic trainers in Division I college athletics. The gap gets increasingly wider when examining female athletic trainers in professional male sports. Another article, describing those circumstances stated, “52% of women made up the National Athletic Trainer’s Association
An athletic trainer is a person who works with an athletic team. They are there for the team when an injury is upon a player. The athletic trainer will help set up a road to recovery so they can be back into their game as soon as possible. The trainer should be knowledgeable about the human body and how to help a player recover from any injury. Players should be able to go to their athletic trainer and not be uneasy about telling them what 's wrong or requesting for their help. Being an athletic
The athletic trainer will teach the participant how to get a moderate workout accomplished with these exercises within the circuit using the given time frame. Each person must do forty minutes of the moderate aerobic circuit workout, but moderate is not the same for every person so it is important for the athletic trainer to help participants monitor their heart rate. Checking heart rate during your treadmill workout can help adjust an individual to the proper speed. Target heart rate is 50 to 85
that’s what it takes to be a real athletic trainer, Do you have it? The career of an athletic trainer is a awesome choice because it gives you the ability to help others thrive, recover, and succeed not only as an athlete but in life. My research will describe the career of a certified athletic trainer and what is required in life to succeed as an professional athletic trainer and the effects it has on society and others lives . The history of an Athletic Trainer can be traced far back in time because
heart until I got the opportunity to sit down with Candy Vander Wal, athletic trainer at Shiloh Christian School. The whirlwind of all the games that take place at the school, I had never realized what role Candy played a part of and all the hard work she does to help student athletes. Once we started to talk, I began to realize that, although I am only a senior in high school, I could see myself enjoying being an athletic trainer someday or just entering the sports medicine line of work. During our
My career goal in the exercise science and wellness field would be becoming an athletic trainer. I enjoy playing and watching sports and have some knowledge about certain things that needs to be done when an injury occurs to an athlete. In ten years, I would expect to see myself working as an athletic trainer at Penn State University. My result of the Kiersey Temperament Sorter does support my career goal because the result showed my personality type is that of an artisan. An artisan has natural
1. . Answer the following questions after reading the front web-page: a. How do athletic trainers mitigate risks? Athletic trainers mitigate risks by assigning physical actives to prevent injuries. b. What are benefits cited on this web-page of physical Activity? Which ones did you already know? Which ones did you not know yet? I already know all of them because I am a very active individual. 2. 2. Click on the following one by one and read: a. Parents I already know there is a lot of risks playing
An athletic trainer 's job is to prevent, treat, and rehabilitate injuries. They make their patient 's well-being their number one priority. The decisions they make while on the clock can be life-saving. Athletic trainers are heroes in disguise and are prime examples of heroes that do not wear capes. Athletic Training Athletic trainers are one of the many professions under the sports medicine umbrella. They work with other healthcare professionals to optimize the well-being of athletes. Although
Keeping well known athletes is a job for the athletic trainer. For instance, Athletic trainers recognize injuries and evaluate how to resolve the injury and they range from pee-wee sports all the way to the professional level of sports. Being an Athletic Trainer requires knowledge about the human body, social skills to speak to the patients and coaches, and responsibility skills. Athletic trainers recognize injuries and evaluate how to resolve the injury and they range from pee-wee sports all the
again, North Carolina passed this act to raise awareness deaths caused by concussions being treating improperly. Research by Tim Stevens, a writer for The News & Observer in Raleigh, NC, shows that the act takes “current North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) requirements for handling concussions, adds an educational component and creates a state statute” (Stevens 2014). By providing knowledge about concussions to both student-athletes and parents, this act hopes to reduce the amount
am applying for the exemplary student athletic trainer award because I believe I am in many ways worthy of it. This award is given to exemplary student athletic trainer which fits my description perfectly. Like the 2015 winner mentioned in her speech, “We come before they do, we leave after they do, and if you don’t believe, you don’t belong, we are, we are the team behind the team,”. That motto is what’s helped keep me pushing along as an exemplary trainer. Ever since the seventh grade when I started
similarities shared by both physical therapists and athletic trainers. Physical therapist take people with physical disabilities and injuries and help them achieve their highest level of physical activity, while an athletic trainer teaches people how to do exercises the correct way. After completing the Career Inventory test, two careers recommended for me were that of a physical therapist and an athletic trainer. Physical therapist and athletic trainers have similarities in working conditions, skills