Athletic Trainers
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 14:30
- Athletic trainers serve many roles in nation's high schools
- Who's going to take care of my kid if they're hurt? Athletic trainers
- Accounts by athletic trainers who saved high school athletes
- Parental scorecard for assessing high school sports safety
- How Scripps analyzed injury, school data for athletic trainer package
- Chart: Most common athletic body part injuries among high schoolers
- Chart: Sport-specific injury rates for select high-school sports
- Chart: Common injuries among high school athletes
- Editorial: High school athletic trainer should always be standing by
Map of Athletic Trainers across the U.S.
- National Atheltic Trainers' Association
- National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury
- National Center for Sports Safety
- Center for Injury Research and Policy
- Advocates for Injured Athletes
- National Federation of High School Associations
- North American Booster Club Association
Sports Safety Web Resources
As student athletes return to competition, their parents likely are unaware that barely a third of America's high schools with a sports program have a full-time professional athletic trainer. A four-month Scripps Howard News Service review found that for every high school that has one or more athletic trainers regularly assigned to the training room, two other schools rely on a patchwork of coaches trained in first aid and part-time athletic trainers, nurses, emergency medical technicians or team doctors.





