Get Ready for Renewal Season
October is right around the corner, and with it comes the NATA membership renewal season. This year’s campaign theme, “Beyond With NATA,” highlights how membership empowers you to achieve your goals, advance your career, build connections with peers and stay current through exclusive member resources.
FIFA 11+ Effective For More Than Just Soccer
By John Doherty, ATC, PT
Concussions, fractures, strains and sprains translate to casts, splints, surgeries and/or time lost. Worse, that time may be a season or a career.
Consequently, sports medics are always striving for better and faster diagnostic tests, medications, rehabilitation techniques and surgeries.
Elevating Osteoarthritis
Worth Trying: Zotero
AT Spotlight: Yuri Hosokawa
The director of communication and education with the Korey Stringer Institute, Hosokawa is currently working on her PhD at the University of Connecticut. She shared in the November NATA News her research interests as well as her plans for the future. Here are some additional questions from our interview with Yuri.
Emerging Educator Award Created By Executive Committee for Education
Emerging Educator Award
This award honors an individual who is an up and coming athletic training educator who has demonstrated excellence in values towards education and teaching abilities. The recipient excels in delivering and promoting athletic training education through various means at the local and regional levels.
Candidate Criteria
Individuals must meet the following requirements to be nominated for the award:
Safe Sports School Award Honorees For September
The Safe Sports School Award recognizes secondary schools that take the crucial steps to keep their athletes free from injuries. The recipient list continued to grow in September with 33 additional schools honored. You can see the full list below.
Rule Changes Would Help Reduce MLB Injuries
By John Doherty, ATC, PT
Baseball is unquestionably the safest of our major team sports. However, as the National League Championship Series shifts to Wrigley Field, the Mets are without a starting infielder, while the Cubs still have their best pitcher only by the grace of good fortune.
Low Back Surgery Requires Serious Consideration
By John Doherty, ATC, PT
Tiger Woods had his first low back operation in March of last year yet still managed to play in seven PGA tournaments in 2014. This year was better only in the sense that he played in 12 tournaments. However, he never finished higher than 10th, missed the cut four times, and withdrew — after only 12 holes — from another.
New Funding Available For Safe Sports School Award
Updated 1/18/16
The Safe Sports School award is an NATA initiative to promote youth athlete safety, injury prevention, as well as athlete and parent education among secondary schools. District and state associations are showing their support by offering assistance to minimize the cost of applying for the award.
If your district or state is interested in starting a grant program, please contact Britni Adams.
Athletic Trainer Initiative Contest
The NFL Foundation’s AT Grant Initiative launched with a bang in May 2014 when President Barack Obama announced an important new partnership between NATA, the NFL Foundation and the Professional Football Athletic Trainers’ Society (PFATS) during the White House Healthy Kids and Concussion Summit in Washington, D.C.