Sports Med Chapter 1

What is an athletic trainer ?

• a weight loss specialist 
• a person who helps you lift weights
• a health care professional who is responsible for the recognition, prevention, evaluation and rehabilitation of athletic injuries 
• a health care professional who is a weight loss specialist and designs weight lifting plans 

when did athletic training as we know it come into existence? 

• 19th century
• late 18th century
• late 19th century
• late 17th century 

who is S.E Bilik?

• an athletic trainer who wrote the trainer's bible
• a physician who wrote the trainer's bible
• the first athletic trainer
• the first physician 

What is an athlete 

• any person
• a person only at high school age
• any physically active individual
• a person at the college level 

What is the definition of a patient?

• a healthy individual
• a sick athletic trainer
• an ill or injured athlete
• none of the above 

All coaches (both head and assistant) do not have to be CPR/AED certified. 

• true
• false
• I'm not sure 

what is the mission of the NATA?

• to promote and maintain high standards for family doctors
• to encourage and support scientific research in sports medicine
• to enhance the quality of care provided by certified athletic trainers and to advance the AT profession
• to provide a forum to establish collegial relations between PTs, PTAs, and students

Injury/illness prevention, clinical evaluation/diagnosis, immediate and emergency care, treatment and rehabilitation, and organizational and professional health and well-being are the five domains for what occupation? 

• BOC for physical therapists
• BOC for physicians
• BOC for strength and conditioning specialist 
• BOC for athletic trainers 

What does an off-the-field examination include?

• Hips, Olecranon, Patella, Scapula
• History, Observation, Palpation, Special tests
• History, Observation, picnics, special tests 
• history, observation, palpation, stiches 

What are the personal qualities of an athletic trainer ? 

• stamina, empathy, sense of humor, communication, intellectual curiosity, ethics
• stamina, indifference, sense of humor, poor communication, intellectual curiosity, ethics 
• stamina, empathy, seriousness, poor communication, lack of curiosity, and bad judgment