NATA Now

By Elizabeth Quinn

It's National Athletic Training Month! To showcase this year's theme, "Providing Health Care Everywhere," the NATA Now blog will highlight athletic trainers in a variety of setting. Learn about how they're increasing understanding of the profession and how you can, too.  

In 2022, NATA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX, which went into effect June 23, 1972. Starting during Women’s History Month in March leading up to the 73rd NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo in June, the NATA Now blog will highlight various legends of the profession and outline the impact Title IX had on them, their careers and the overall athletic training profession.

By Sara Richardson, MS, LAT, ATC, NATA Council of Practice Advancement Private & Emerging Practice Committee Chair

NATA COPA Con is back for round two! The NATA COPA Con 2022 Virtual Conference on Practice Advancement kicks off with live content April 8-9, and continues on-demand through May 9.

Registration is open now, and early bird pricing ends March 18.

It's National Athletic Training Month! To showcase this year's theme, "Providing Health Care Everywhere," the NATA Now blog will highlight athletic trainers in a variety of setting. Learn about how they're increasing understanding of the profession and how you can, too.  

With social media becoming more engrained in our daily lives, ATs are using these platforms to showcase the profession to the masses while simultaneously connecting to their athletic training community.

By Cari Wood, ATC, NATA Title IX Task Force Chair

In 2022, NATA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX, which went into effect June 23, 1972. Starting during Women’s History Month in March and leading up to the 73rd NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo in June, the NATA Now blog will highlight various legends of the profession and outline the impact Title IX had on them, their careers and the overall athletic training profession.

By Cari Wood, ATC, NATA Title IX Task Force Chair

In 2022, NATA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX, which went into effect June 23, 1972. Starting during Women’s History Month in March and leading up to the 73rd NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo in June, the NATA Now blog will highlight various legends of the profession and outline the impact Title IX had on them, their careers and the overall athletic training profession.

In the March NATA News, the latest Success Through Support article looks at the NATA Executive Council for Education, and it’s new “Reshaping Athletic Training Education in the 21st Century” document. As the article outlines, the document provides a strategic framework for the future of athletic training.

It's National Athletic Training Month! To showcase this year's theme, "Providing Health Care Everywhere," the NATA Now blog is highlighting the various places athletic training are found and what ATs are doing to increase understanding of the profession in those settings.

By Elizabeth Quinn

In honor of Black History Month, NATA will highlight some of our young professional leaders at the state, district and national levels and how they’re advancing athletic training into the future. 

Concussion is and should always be front-page news for athletic trainers. Clinical athletic trainers are on the front lines of concussion identification and management and regularly find themselves coordinating with concussion management teams for athletes. In the ongoing effort to better understand and prevent concussions, researchers working in athletic training are positively influencing protocols and policy, increasing athlete safety and improving recovery outcomes.