NATA
This is the National Athletic Trainers Association homepage, it is filled with a lot of educational material for those interested in athletic training, or those who are already certified athletic trainers. This homepage has many options, whether it is signing up for a membership for their association, reading articles or blogs of researchers or other athletic trainers, and it tells you what kind of education someone can get in order to become an athletic trainer and where this education can happen.
Blog of an Athletic Trainer
This is just a small blog that I happened to come upon and it has a whole mixture of things inside of it, from actual talks about such things as licensure, if entry-level master programs are really right for someone, and there are a bunch of personal experiences and humor that is experienced in the athletic training setting. This blog makes it easy to understand and to break down some of the more complicated things of athletic training and make them very relatable and easy to understand. Also people can get a good look into what athletic training is like from a day to day process.
Dodger's First Ever Female Athletic Trainer
This was a huge step for women in the athletic training community, it is very difficult to break into professional sports as a woman athletic trainer because it is a predominantly male field and many sports teams will not hire females just because the training rooms are inside the locker rooms. This article shows that Falsone was the first female athletic trainer in the history of US sports to be named head athletic trainer, which is absurd and a very huge honor. This article also reveals that athletic trainers have nothing but the athlete in their best interest.
A Day In the Life of an Athletic Trainer
This Youtube video is a short clip into the daily life of an athletic trainer, some of the things that we have to deal with on a daily basis and many of the things that I did within my internship. Things such as many and multiple ankle tape jobs, injury evaluation, rehabilitation programs, and just working on and off the field to care for the athletes.
The History and Evolution of Athletic Training Education in the United States
This article was written to show how much athletic training has grown throughout the years. It talks of the development of athletic training as a whole from the 1950s through to the 1990s and how the modalities of athletic training have changed and improved. It also talks about the future of athletic training, and what future athletic trainers have to look forward in the future. Athletic training is an ever growing and improving field and this article only backs up that statement with the history of athletic training and what athletic training has to hold for those interested in pursuing it in the future.
Current Trends in Athletic Training Practice for Concussion Assessment and Management
This article talks about the methods of assessing concussion and how the National Athletic Trainers Association establishes an athlete's baseline and then again how they check on the athlete to monitor for the possibility for concussion. This article talks about how each athletic trainer did this assessment for baseline and for return to play differently, and even different from what the National Athletic Trainers Association recommends. Various methods and tools are used throughout the athletic training community in order to diagnose, but that these various tools must be continually used and updated in order to maintain safety and health guidelines.
Rehabilitation Compliance in an Athletic Training Environment
The purpose of this article was to distinguish the necessary components that athletes need in order to be in compliance for rehabilitation and how effective it can be depending on their environment. The article talks of the amount of pain the athlete is in, the amount of support the athlete has from others, the amount of exertion they are putting forth, the type of scheduling, and the environment that the athlete is in as the 6 key variables that will effect how compliant the athlete is to begin rehabilitation. That these components must be in a positive light for the athlete in order for them to want to be in rehabilitation for whatever their injury is, and if any of these components are negative that the athlete will be less and less compliant for rehabilitation.