History of Athletic TrainingSports Med 2

On Your Own

• Silently read the paragraph at the top of the page in your book

• Define the following on your paper using your book:– Training:– Athletic training:– Trainer:– Athletic trainer:

5th CenturyGreatest athletic trainer: Herodicus of Megara( He encouraged patients to walk 20 miles from Athens to Megara)

– Father of Sports Medicine– First to combine sports with medicine– he recommended strict diet, constant physical activity and

regular training to maintain health– Tutor to Hippocrates

Hippocrates• Father of western medicine• Helped athletes in reaching optimum performance

776 BC• First Olympics: first professional athletes

1916

• After WWI athletic trainers play more of a role, they started to work at the college level

1917• Dr. S. E. Bilik:• Physician who wrote first major text on athletic training

and care of athletic injuries: The Trainer’s Bible

1920’s / 1932

• Cramer Family– Produced a liniment to treat ankle sprains– Realized the potential market between athletes

and coach– To enhance communication and exchange ideas

with the coaches they published the First Aider in 1932

– They have played an important role in the education of S.A.T’s

1938-1944

• Tried to form NATA (National Athletic Trainers Association)

• Failed because of the war.

1950

• Athletic trainers got organized • 101 AT’s met in Kansas City and officially

formed the NATA– The purpose: to establish professional standards

for the Athletic Trainer (domains)

First AT’s to Work Olympics1952 Finland

1970’s• 1970:– Had to get certified

• 1972:– Title IX established:

• "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance”

• 1976:– Title IX played a big role in the growth of the Athletic

Trainer. More athletes = more jobs