What is an Athletic Trainer?
What is an Athletic Trainer?
Athletic trainers are specialized and highly-trained healthcare professionals. Athletic trainers focus on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of injuries or medical conditions related to athletic performance and sport.
They often collaborate with physicians.
Wellness promotion, primary care, injury-focus, diagnosis, therapies and rehabilitation, and much more fall under the athletic trainer banner.
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