October’s New NATA EducATe Courses
As your source of lifelong learning, NATA EducATe provides users with an extensive educational library, a customizable experience, the ability to interact with peers and more.
New courses are constantly being added to the platform to ensure you have the knowledge needed to stay up to date in your practice – as well as earn CEUs.
Safe Sports School Award Honorees For December
PBATS Honors Commissioner Selig With Honorary Membership
Former NFL Head AT Talks Sports Medicine & Sunday Night Football on NBC Sports
After two decades as the Jacksonville Jaguars’ head athletic trainer, Mike Ryan, ATC, PT, PES, has spent the 2014 football season not behind the sidelines but in front of the camera. As a sports medicine consultant for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, Ryan discusses NFL player injuries and offers medical insight on the NBC Sports Network’s Pro Football Talk (PFT) Live.
Conditioning for Pitchers: It's All in the Hips (and Core)
For a pitcher to avoid coal in his stocking, he must throw lots of strikes over lots of innings AND stay relatively healthy.
The Latest from the NFL Foundation's AT Grant Initiative
On May 29, 2014, President Barack Obama announced an important new partnership between NATA, the NFL and the Professional Football Athletic Trainers’ Society (PFATS) during the White House Healthy Kids and Concussion Summit in Washington, DC.. As part of the collaboration, the NFL Foundation and NFL teams agreed to provide $1 million and NATA added agreed to contribute $125,000 to place ATs in underserved high schools in NFL markets.
Update on NFL Foundation's AT Grant Initiative
On May 29, 2014, President Barack Obama announced an important new partnership between NATA, the NFL and the Professional Football Athletic Trainers’ Association (PFATS) during the White House Healthy Kids and Concussion Summit in Washington, DC.. As part of the collaboration, the NFL Foundation and NFL teams agreed to provide $1 million and NATA added agreed to contribute $125,000 to place ATs in underserved high schools in NFL markets.
#ATsAre ... Showing Their Holiday Spirit!
There's no shortage of holiday spirit among athletic trainers, evidenced by the creative decor we've seen circulating on social media.
The Power of a [Self] Pep Talk
My wife showed me a video on YouTube the other day of a little girl standing on the bathroom counter giving herself a pep talk. She goes through a number of different things she likes about herself, her family and her house before hopping down and proceeding with her day as usual (If you haven’t seen it, it is pretty cute.)
Safe Sports School Award Honorees For November
Support #GivingTuesday
Thousands of people around the world are celebrating #GivingTuesday today, a global day dedicated to giving back. On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.