Certified Athletic Trainer
Jason Wentworth, M.Ed, ATC, CSCS
Athletic Training Room: Rm 7022 located inside the high school fitness center
Athletic Training Room Hours: M-F daily 2:00-3:20 p.m. or by appointment
Email: [email protected]
Certified Athletic Trainer - governed by the National Athletic Trainers' Association (www.nata.org)
- What is Athletic Training?
The Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) plays a unique and important role in today's health care system through prevention, education, recognition, management and rehabilitation of athletic injuries.
In this role, the Certified Athletic Trainer can help athletes avoid
unnecessary medical treatment and disruption of normal daily activities.
Along with the patient and other health care practitioners, the ATC
share the difficult work and commitment needed to accomplish each
individual athlete's goals. In this respect, the ATC truly shares the
challenge of improving the athletes health and likewise they take pride
in the patients' successes.
The Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC)
is a highly educated and skilled professional specializing in athletic
health care. In cooperation with physicians and other allied health
personnel, the ATC functions as an integral member of the athletic
health care team in secondary schools, colleges and universities, sports
medicine clinics, professional sports programs and other athletic
health care settings.
Education
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certified athletic trainer must obtain a degree from an athletic
training program that is approved by the Commission on Accreditation of
Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). To prepare for certification,
students study pathology, assessment of injury/illness, general medical
conditions and disabilities, emergency care, pharmacology, injury
prevention and risk management, and medical/legal issues. They also
study human anatomy, exercise physiology, biomechanics, nutrition and
strength & conditioning.
Certification
- Certified
Athletic Trainers have fulfilled the requirements for certification
established by the National Athletic Trainers' association Board of
Certification, Inc. (NATABOC).