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Job Description
Evaluate and advise individuals to assist recovery from or avoid athletic-related injuries or illnesses, or maintain peak physical fitness. May provide first aid or emergency care.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-9091.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 47,880.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 0.00
- Currently, there are 24,130 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Athletic Trainers”.
Also Known As…
- Athletic Trainers
- Sports Medicine Coordinator
- Resident Athletic Trainer
- Head Athletic Trainer/Strength Coach
- Head Athletic Trainer
- Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer
- Clinical Instructor
- Certified Athletic Trainer
- Athletic Trainer
- Athletic Instructor
- Assistant Athletic Trainer
- Sports Trainer
- Sports Medicine Trainer
- Physical Trainer
- Fitness Specialist
- Clinical Athletic Instructor
Tasks for “Sports Athletic Trainer”
- Assess and report the progress of recovering athletes to coaches or physicians.
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as keeping records or writing reports.
- Accompany injured athletes to hospitals.
- Perform team support duties, such as running errands, maintaining equipment, or stocking supplies.
- Lead stretching exercises for team members prior to games or practices.
- Advise athletes on the proper use of equipment.
- Evaluate athletes' readiness to play and provide participation clearances when necessary and warranted.
- Develop training programs or routines designed to improve athletic performance.
- File athlete insurance claims and communicate with insurance providers.
- Conduct research or provide instruction on subject matter related to athletic training or sports medicine.
- Collaborate with physicians to develop and implement comprehensive rehabilitation programs for athletic injuries.
- Travel with athletic teams to be available at sporting events.
- Conduct an initial assessment of an athlete's injury or illness to provide emergency or continued care and to determine whether they should be referred to physicians for definitive diagnosis and treatment.
- Confer with coaches to select protective equipment.
- Recommend special diets to improve athletes' health, increase their stamina, or alter their weight.
- Teach sports medicine courses to athletic training students.
- Instruct coaches, athletes, parents, medical personnel, or community members in the care and prevention of athletic injuries.
- Plan or implement comprehensive athletic injury or illness prevention programs.
- Apply protective or injury preventive devices, such as tape, bandages, or braces, to body parts, such as ankles, fingers, or wrists.
- Massage body parts to relieve soreness, strains, or bruises.
- Care for athletic injuries, using physical therapy equipment, techniques, or medication.
- Inspect playing fields to locate any items that could injure players.
Related Technology & Tools
- Personal computers
- Parallel bars
- Oxygen administration equipment
- Desktop computers
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Sling psychrometers
- Vacuum splints
- One-way valve pocket masks
- Medical scales
- Lower extremity braces
- Elliptical trainers
- Therapeutic ultrasound equipment
- Emergency response stretchers
- Lumbar traction units
- Air splints
- Therapeutic paraffin baths
- Rowing machines
- Sports helmets
- Body-fat calipers
- Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
- Biofeedback equipment
- Swiss exercise balls
- Face shields
- Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Weight machines
- Tilt tables
- Exercise treadmills
- Free weights
- Upper extremity braces
- Pulse oximeters
- Two way radios
- Heat therapy equipment
- Whirlpool therapy baths
- Walking canes
- Goniometers
- Exercise bands
- Spinal immobilization equipment
- Muscle strength dynamometers
- Crutches
- Exercise tubing
- Stair climbing machines
- Hydrocollator heating units
- Cold therapy equipment
- Laptop computers
- Fixed splints
- Neck braces
- Knee immobilizers
- Exercise bicycles
- Traction splints
- Mouth guards
- Cervical traction units
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Email software
- Injury tracking software
- Scheduling software
- Digital Coach AthleticTrainer
- Keffer Development Services Athletic Trainer System ATS
- Word processing software
- ImPACT
- Premier Software Simtrak Mobility
- Microsoft Office
- Database software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- BioEx Systems Exercise Pro
- Web browser software