Sports med semester exam 1

A health care specialist who designs special diets with the goal of enhancing performance

• Chiropractor
• Sports Nutritionist
• Dietician
• Certified Athletic Trainer

A mid-level health care practitioner who works interdependently with physicians to provide diagnostic and therapeutic care

• Physical Therapist
• Sports Physician
• Physician Assistant
• Nurse Practitioner

A health care specialist who is responsible for performing treatments that require special training in therapeutic exercises, hydrotherapy, and electrotherapy; and for performing procedures dealing with individual muscles and muscular movement

• Chiropractor
• Certified Athletic Trainer
• Physical Therapy
• Sports Physician

What is a lawsuit?

• A television show with Ice-T

• A fancy suit you buy in a store

• A legal situation in which one person sues another person for damages

• A situation you don't really want to be in

In order to find someone was Negligent, what must first be established?

• Misfeasance

• Malfeasance

• Act of Omission

• Duty of care

T/F There are two ways in which Negligence can be established? Either you did too much, or you did not do enough?

• False

• True

Being legally responsible for the harm caused another person

• Duty of care

• Liability

• Tort

• Act of Comission

Negligence is what?

• Failing to use reasonable care

• Legally causing harm to one another

• Suing someone for damages

• Modifying a helmet so that its lighter

The athletic trainer cuts tape off an athlete but in the process cuts the athlete and the athlete loses a toe. What type of Tort was committed?

• Act of Comission

• Malfeasance

• Nonfeasance

• Misfeasance

Matthew comes up on a man unconscious at the river. Thanks to his awesome sports medicine teacher, Matthew is certified in CPR. Matthew is super nervous about doing CPR wrong. What law protects him from being found liable?

• Good Hope Act

• Good Faith Act

• Good Summary Act

• Good Samaritan Act