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Article: The dividends of investing in athletic trainers.(GUEST COLUMN)
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- School Administrator
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- September 1, 2008
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A student athlete collapses n the playing field in 100-plus degree weather and is unresponsive.
Would you rather have an untrained person as the first responder while the student's parents look on anxiously from the sidelines or a certified athletic trainer immediately attending to the athlete?
It's a no-brainer. Yet far too few high schools have an athletic trainer on hand to provide appropriate, timely medical care to their student athletes.
The National Athletic Trainers' Association estimates only 42 percent of high schools nationwide have access to a certified athletic trainer. And in my home state of Texas, that number is only slightly ...