Sports
Changes aplenty an athletic training
By Mark Winter, LAT, ATC
In honor of National Athletic Training Month, I’ll discuss changes in our profession over the years and how in some instances it’s stayed the same.
In 1950, a small group of 200 athletic trainers gathered in Kansas City, Missouri and formed the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA), with the thought of collaborating on enhancing the practicing profession of athletic training, using guidelines in ethics, education, research and practice settings...