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As part of National Athletic Training Month in March, the NATA Student Leadership Committee will once again hold its annual video contest.
 
Students will have the opportunity to promote the profession of athletic training by capturing the heart of the profession on film. This year, videos should be based on the 2016 NATM theme “A safer approach to work, life and sport.” The contest is open to any entry-level athletic training student. Late entries will not be eligible.
 
Contest Rules
 

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most commonly injured ligaments in the knee. An ACL injury can occur in any sport, with 70 percent of ACL injuries being sustained during non-contact sports and 30 percent sustained during contact sports. To help you educate your athletes, parents and administration on ACL injury, NATA has created an ACL injury handout that was published in the March NATA News on p. 62.
 

By Forrest Pecha, MS, ATC, CSCS
on behalf of CAATE

Webster’s definition of residency includes, “A period of advanced training in a medical specialty.” This is important to understand when considering the goals and standards of post-professional athletic training residency programs (PPATR).
 

by Moegi Yamaguchi, AT
Lead Athletic Trainer, 2015 Ohio University Marching 110

Marching band is a relatively new area of practice for athletic trainers. Marching musicians may not fall into a typical category of athlete; however, their effort is very physical, and athletic trainers are well-suited to be care providers for them.
 

Since the pilot-launch of the ATLAS project at the NATA symposium in St. Louis this year, the KSI team has been extremely busy working alongside the NATA Secondary School Athletic Trainers' Committee (SSATC) to map all of the athletic training services provided at the secondary school level across the nation! “What we did was take all of the data from the Benchmark Study (funded by the NATA) and mapped every school based on their zip code using an online program call Zeemaps by Zee Source” said Rob Huggins, Vice President for Research at KSI.

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is caused by an electrical disturbance in the heart that disrupts pumping, and every year in the U.S. 2,000 patients under age 25 die because of it, according to the Center for Disease Control. To help you educate your student athletes, coaches, administration and parents on the dangers of SCA, NATA has created a sudden cardiac arrest handout (pdf) that was published in the February NATA News on p. 58.