Investigating the Field of Sports Medicine

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• Physicians like Hippocrates and Galen assist Olympians and gladiators in reaching optimal performance

• The Renaissance begins and there is a lack of interest in sports.

• S. E. Bilik, a physician, writes The Trainer's Bible, the first major text on athletic training and injury care, significantly influencing the development of the athletic trainer as a specialist.

• The Cramer family in Gardner, Kansas, starts a chemical company, producing liniment for ankle sprains and realizing a market for products to treat injured athletes.

• The Cramer family begins publishing First Aider to enhance communication among coaches, athletic trainers, and athletes, playing a prominent role in student athletic trainer education.

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• Approximately 101 athletic trainers from various conferences meet in Kansas City, Missouri, to officially form the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA), with the primary purpose of establishing professional standards.

• NATA membership is first tracked, with 4,500 members.

• Recognition of athletic trainers as health care providers by the American Medical Association.

• NATA membership grows to over 45,000, with an additional 12,000 certified athletic trainers who are not members

• Athletic Training Education transitions to an entry level Master's Degree

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​A basketball player, Sarah, is driving to the basket during a game and lands awkwardly, rolling her ankle. She immediately falls to the ground in pain.

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