Patient Care

By Lydia Hicks The next NATA Timely Topics event, “The AT and Polarizing Issues in Health Care,” at 11 a.m. CDT Oct. 11, is a forum for athletic trainers to have their questions answered regarding current societal health care topics affecting the...

The next NATA Timely Topics Series event, “The AT and Management of Long COVID,” at 1 p.m. CDT Sept. 2, is an opportunity to ask the right questions, said former NATA Intercollegiate Council for Sports Medicine Chair and Current National Collegiate...

NATA will host its next Timely Topics Series event titled , “The AT and Nutrition,” at noon CDT Aug. 19. The event will offer athletic trainers the opportunity to connect with industry thought leaders to discuss trends in performance nutrition, as...

By Kelsey Bains, MA, ATC, and Donita Valentine, DAT, LAT, SFMA, ATs Care Commission Burnout is the result of physical and/or mental breakdown due to being overworked or stressed from one’s duties. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several, if not all,...

During the Professional Football Athletic Trainers’ Society (PFATS) annual meeting and education program, held before the NFL Combine this March in Indianapolis, NATA Sports Science and Data Analytics Task Force Co-Chair Mark Coberley, MS, ATC, LAT...

To commemorate Pride Month throughout June, the NATA Now blog will share a variety of topics to support our members’ efforts to provide compassionate and culturally competent patient care to all. Cultural competence has been at the forefront of the...

By Lorin Cartwright, MS, ATC, CAA, and Mitchell Anderson, AT, ATC To commemorate Pride Month throughout June, the NATA Now blog will share a variety of topics to support our members’ efforts to provide compassionate and culturally competent patient...

By Kelsey Bains, MA, ATC, NATA ATs Care Commission As we discussed in the previous blog , the way in which we, our colleagues, patients, friends or family metabolize a critical incident may differ not only from incident to incident, but from day to...

In 2019, the NATA Secondary School Athletic Trainers’ Committee released the Wellness Screening Guidelines for the Secondary School Athletic Trainer resource to help assist ATs in creating screening surveys that tracked student athlete mental health...

In honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month , the NATA Now blog will highlight some of our Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders at the state, district and national levels throughout May. As president of the Hawaii Athletic Trainers’...