Sports Medicine

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 is the Cochrane Database?

• largest collection of systematic reviews

• largest collection of injury reports

• largest database for homework answers

• I'm not sure