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