Press Releases Archive

DALLAS, June 16, 2015 – The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) will formally welcomed two new board members at its 66th annual convention at the America’s Center in St. Louis, June 22-27, 2015. Mark Coberley, MS, ATC, LAT, succeeds NATA’s outgoing District Five Director Eric McDonnell, MEd, ATC, LAT , and AJ Duffy, III, MS, ATC, PT, will replace District Two Dir…

DALLAS, TEXAS, September 12, 2016 – The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act (H.R. 921), sponsored by Reps. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) and Cedric Richmond (D-LA), which protects athletic trainers and other sports medicine professionals who travel out-of-state with an athletic team to provide care. The bill will now be sent to the Senate for consideration, after …

Dallas – The Journal of Athletic Training has just published online a new study, “Calling Injury Timeouts for the Medical Evaluation of Concussion: Determinants of Collegiate Football Officials’ Behavior”: The journal is NATA’s scientific publication. “Concussion education for officials is important,” says lead author Emily Kroshus, ScD, MPH, assistant professor, University of Washingto…

DALLAS, TX – Kicking off National Youth Sport Specialization Awareness Week (third full week in October) the Journal of Athletic Training, the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s (NATA) scientific publication, released today a special thematic issue focused on youth sport specialization. Youth sport specialization is intensive year-round participation in a single sport, often at the exclusio…

WASHINGTON, February 6, 2013 – The Youth Sports Safety Alliance, composed of more than 100 organizations committed to keeping young athletes safe, launched the first-ever “National Action Plan for Sports Safety” to ensure comprehensive action to protect America’s student athletes. The Plan was finalized by those in attendance at the 4th annual Youth Sports Safety Summit in …

Dallas, July 22, 2015 – World Cup soccer has made international headlines in recent weeks and with fall sports around the corner, a focus on the sport continues. Soccer players use hamstring muscles to provide speed, quickness and power to navigate field position and increase their intensity of activity. When strains occur, what determines a player’s return to participation (RTP) and w…

DALLAS, December 6, 2016 – The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) published today its new position statement, “Preventing and Managing Sport-Related Dental and Oral Injuries.” Created by the NATA Research & Education Foundation, the statement appears online in the Journal of Athletic Training, NATA’s scientific publication. As the number of high school and collegiate athl…

DALLAS – With baseball season well underway and numerous shoulder injuries already reported, the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) offers timely recommendations with its newly released position statement, “Evaluation, Management and Outcomes of and Return-to-Play Criteria for Overhead Athletes with Superior Labral Anterior-Posterior Injuries.” Created by the NATA Research & Educat…

DALLAS, TX – The Journal of Athletic Training, the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s (NATA) scientific publication, released today A Comparison of Emergency Preparedness Between High School Coaches and Club Sport Coaches and Exploring Coaches’ Perceptions of Youth Sport Specialization: A Comparison of High School and Club Sport Context as part of their special thematic issue focused on you…

DALLAS, May 15, 2013 –With the spring sports season well underway and summer preseason practices and youth league games around the corner, young athletes are already enjoying warm weather activities and competition. “Every team and athlete should have sports safety as a top priority,” says Larry Cooper, chair of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Secondary School Committee and head athlet…