True Stories From the Athletic Training RoomEdizione 1

Are you a student who has made the exciting decision to become an athletic trainer?

Are you a faculty member looking to share with your students lessons, tips, and examples of what they can expect from this challenging and rewarding profession?

Are you a new clinician just beginning your career and looking ahead to many fulfilling years of working with athletes?

Then True Stories from the Athletic Training Room is the perfect text for you.

True Stories from the Athletic Training Room is a collection of 35 true-to life stories shared by certified athletic trainers from their work in industrial settings, high schools, colleges, professional teams, and sports medicine clinics.

Brought together by Keith M. Gorse, Francis Feld and Robert O. Blanc, True Stories from the Athletic Training Room is organized by the five domains of athletic training:

• Injury and Illness Prevention and Wellness Protection
• Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis
• Immediate and Emergency Care
• Treatment and Rehabilitation
• Organizational and Professional Health and Well-being

With this user-friendly organization, readers will be able to easily find examples of any true story they could imagine. Each story features the actual occurrence as it was told by the certified athletic trainer and gives the readers an opportunity to get a genuine feel of what the athletic training profession is really all about, with just a turn of the page.

True Stories from the Athletic Training Room will provide athletic training students, faculty, and clinicians the closest thing to a crash-course by exposing them to a diverse array of true to life occurrences about the past and present of health care management in sports and active lifestyles.