Comments on: 10 Places You Didn’t Know Utilized Athletic Trainers https://www.athletico.com/2013/03/04/every-body-needs-an-athletic-trainer/ Better for every body. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:21:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Todd Keasling https://www.athletico.com/2013/03/04/every-body-needs-an-athletic-trainer/#comment-235062 Sat, 26 Mar 2016 03:02:18 +0000 http://www.athletico.com/?p=7584#comment-235062 Then there insurance companies. I have two ATC friends working in that end of the industry

]]> By: Secondary Ed AT https://www.athletico.com/2013/03/04/every-body-needs-an-athletic-trainer/#comment-47485 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:03:50 +0000 http://www.athletico.com/?p=7584#comment-47485 @GoalKeeper, The issue with club sports at many institutions is not the choice of the athletic trainers, but rather the administration. The administration’s hands are often held by what resources they have. As you’re probably aware being a varsity athlete who is allowed treatment, athletic trainers generally clock 50-60 (at some institutions 70+) hours per week. That’s excluding the additional time they’d spend with club teams. Providing coverage to more athletes would require the resources of additional athletic trainers, greater insurance coverage, and more supplies (in other words, money, money, and money). Some colleges and universities have a specific athletic trainer assigned specifically to club sports (see: University of California San Diego, Stanford, Boston University, etc.) Club sport athletes no doubt should be allowed coverage. It’s an administrative money issue. I would suggest taking it to your college’s Athletic Director and/or Vice President of Student Affairs about the importance of proper coverage of all sports and student-athletes.

Also, we’re headed away from use of the word “trainer” when referring to athletic trainers. The Associated Press’ Stylebook, the standard for published journalists, recognizes “athletic trainers” as “Health care professionals who are licensed or otherwise regulated to work with athletes and physically active people to prevent, diagnose and treat injuries and other emergency, acute and chronic medical conditions including cardiac abnormalities and heat stroke. Specify where necessary to distinguish from personal trainers, who focus primarily on fitness.” (http://www.bocatc.org/blog/uncategorized/victory-athletic-trainer-in-ap-stylebook/)

A concise comparison between “trainers” and “athletic trainers” are also outlined here: http://www.nata.org/sites/default/files/AT-Not-Trainer.pdf

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