Unchallengeable autonomous medical authority remains elusive… Guideline 1B in the NCAA’s 2025 Sports Medicine Handbook reads in part, “(S)chools must establish an administrative structure that provides independent medical care and affirms the unchallengeable autonomous authority of primary athletics health care providers (team physicians and athletic trainers) to determine medical management…

97% of the victims since 2000 have been linemen and over one third of the incidents resulted from “punishment” runs or drills.

For athletic trainers covering summer tournaments, the primary goal should be the preventing exertional heat illness, especially if the competition is planned for a field with an artificial surface. Artificial surfaces at mid-day may get to 120 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, even if the surrounding temperature is in the comfortable…

When Southern Cal star basketball player JuJu Watkins tore her right ACL in the Trojans’ third game of the 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, the questions surely started. How soon will she have her surgery? What type of graft will be used? How long after the surgery will she…

Jalen Hurts was the MVP of Super Bowl LIX. Prior to defeating the Chiefs in the biggest game of the year, he made headlines after an earlier contest by beating something else. After being sent to the medical tent for a suspected concussion late in the first half of the…

There is a lot of contact in non-contact football. Which is why you need an athletic trainer on the sidelines for flag & 7-on-7 football. Due to the public’s ongoing concern with head trauma in general, and concussions in particular, the popularity of non-tackle versions of football has grown…

When the holiday season ends, the rhabdomyolyis season is in danger of starting… The start of the holiday season marks the end of another season for most football programs. At the high school level, state championships have been determined by late November or early December. For collegians, unless a team…