There’s an AT for That!
Athletic trainers (ATs) are health care professionals who provide medical services for active patient populations. From injury prevention and enhanced wellness to rehabilitation and return to activity, ATs are essential to health care in work, life and sport.
From concussions and sprains to general medical conditions, there’s an AT for that. As culturally competent health care professionals, athletic trainers are equipped to prevent, diagnose, and treat a variety of health issues, often providing necessary preemptive, emergency, and lifesaving care for all.
Essential health care services that ATs provide include:
Risk Reduction, Wellness, and Health Literacy: ATs implement injury prevention programs, educate patients on risk reduction strategies, and help mitigate risk by developing venue specific emergency action plans.
Examination and Diagnosis of Injuries: ATs assess, evaluate, and diagnosis injuries and illness through appropriate history and physical examinations. ATs are also skilled in determining when it is safe to return to sport or work duties after injuries.
Immediate and Emergency Care: ATs provide emergency care for injury and illnesses such as concussion, cardiac arrest, spine injuries, heat stroke, diabetes, allergic reactions and asthma attacks.
Therapeutic Intervention: ATs recondition and rehabilitate injuries, illnesses and general medical conditions for optimal performance and function.
Health Care Administration: ATs are pioneers of change. Through injury data collected by ATs, the athletic training profession is shaping injury prevention and identifying new ways to keep patients healthy while reducing overall health care costs.
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