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The NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee – a board of independent and NFL-affiliated physicians and scientists, including advisors for the NFL Players Association – developed the NFL Game Day Concussion Diagnosis and Management Protocol in 2011. The Concussion Protocol is reviewed each year to ensure players are receiving care that reflects the most up-to-date medical consensus on the identification, diagnosis and treatment of concussions.
NATA Now article that reviews what to know about AT burnout.
Sports Medicine Legal Digest was created to keep athletic trainers informed on current legal issues that could affect their daily practice. Each issue features article, case summaries and columns related to risk and liability, professional responsibility and ethics.
Winter 2021 Sports Medicine Legal Digest article on employment discrimination in the LGBTQ+ community.
Sports Medicine Legal Digest was created to keep athletic trainers informed on current legal issues that could affect their daily practice. Each issue features article, case summaries and columns related to risk and liability, professional responsibility and ethics.
Gain a better understanding of the main human motivators in order to help manage the stress related to COVID-19 and beyond.
The athletic trainer plays a vital role in reducing barriers to accessing quality health care for all patients, including transgender individuals. Read about key points ATs should know re: transgender health care, and resources to improve their knowledge, awareness and patient care for the population.
Sports Medicine Legal Digest was created to keep athletic trainers informed on current legal issues that could affect their daily practice. Each issue features article, case summaries and columns related to risk and liability, professional responsibility and ethics.
The July 2021 issue of NATA News focuses on the different aspects of athletic training entrepreneurship, which can include how to manage time. An entrepreneur’s schedule can be unpredictable, as can an athletic trainer’s, but seeing how one AT entrepreneur makes it work week by week is a great example of how to make it work. This NATA Now artlcle further hilghights this topic.
Sports Medicine Legal Digest was created to keep athletic trainers informed on current legal issues that could affect their daily practice. Each issue features article, case summaries and columns related to risk and liability, professional responsibility and ethics.
May 2021 NATA News article (pdf) that reviews what athletic trainers need to know about the impact of race, ethnicity and culture on mental wellness in the patient population and what they can do to support patients.
This is an article on NATA Now. Several states have initiated and/or passed legislation that affects health care for transgender youth in sport. Given that transgender individuals suffer behavioral health issues at a higher rate than their cisgender peers, it is imperative that ATs are cognizant of how these laws affect the well-being of their transgender patient population.
Sports Medicine Legal Digest was created to keep athletic trainers informed on current legal issues that could affect their daily practice. Each issue features article, case summaries and columns related to risk and liability, professional responsibility and ethics.
Sports Medicine Legal Digest was created to keep athletic trainers informed on current legal issues that could affect their daily practice. Each issue features article, case summaries and columns related to risk and liability, professional responsibility and ethics.
Being a culturally competent health care provider is not limited to understanding variances in gender identity, race or ethnicity – ATs must also be aware of their patient’s religious values. This type of education and awareness can come from personal experience and/or a proactive effort to increase personal awareness of religious traditions that may vary from the one’s own.