Athletic TrainersBy: Jacob Steinhardt

Introduction

• An athletic trainer is specialized in the control of health of the athletes muscle and cardio vascular system. The athletic trainers try to prevent injuries by showing the athletes different stretches. They also treat the injured players during the games. They are the ones when you see someone get hurt playing football go out and help the athlete. You will mostly be working with.

Salary

• Athletic trainers get a high wage. The usual income each year is 45,000 to 65,000 dollars a year. Depending on how much experience or college that they have had. This job includes dealing with medicating and treating athletes that are hurt. The jobs salary is rising too because of the amount of injured high school athletes in a year.

Skills required

• The least amount of years to become an athletic trainer is eight or nine years. You need to have a masters degree, a PhD, and a few years for medical school. They recommend a tech. class for two or three years, but the PhD and the Masters. The med class under the athletic training units.

Technology

• Technology has improved athletic training a lot. The new equipment that there is to prevent and treat injuries are amazing. Like the different muscle toning equipment. This is given to the athletes by athletic trainers to use before games. To prevent muscle injuries and there are new machines that can tell you if there is something wrong with your cardio vascular system.

Impact

Being an athletic trainer impacts a lot on the medical field for the athletes. High schools have been greatly developed from the first athletics programs because of athletic trainers preventing and treating injuries of the athletes. The athletic trainers have impacted all sports like this.

Transition

• In the future we will have athletic trainers that only medicate and treat the athletes, instead of being on the sidelines. These athletic trainers will specialize in only the two of those while the normal athletic trainers will be on the sidelines during the game to help prevent the injuries.

New skills• Besides the two years for a

master and the three years for the PhD to become a regular athletic trainer the new job you will need three or four years of med. school. You will also need two or three years of technology school. You could also stay another few years for extra technology school that you think might help you get a job.

New technology• In this new advanced job there

will be a lot more machines to see the injuries of players and how their muscular and cardio vascular systems are doing. These athletic trainers will be able to have check ups to see in advance how long they think it will be until they can play again. They will have 3D systems. Which will help them see the injuries better.

Conclusion

• The main differences in how the athletic trainers are different are one works in the offices and one is a field trainer. The New job specializes in medical and surgery and the old job only tries to prevent injuries. A benefit to the new job is that you get a higher pay because you are having to deal with surgery and medical issues. The salary would be 60,000 to 80,000. This is usually 68,000.

Glossary• Medical: pertaining to the science or practice of medicine.• Training: The education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing being trained.• Injuries: Harm or damage that is done or sustained.• Specialize: To pursue some special line of study or work.• Prevent: To keep from occurring. • Muscular: pertaining to muscle or muscles.• Cardio vascular: pertaining to affecting the heart or blood.

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