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New Online Hall of Fame Launches
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 Hundreds of athletic trainers have worked to shape and grow the profession. Meet the best of the best in the new online NATA Hall of Fame. Photos, summaries and videos give you an inside look at the people who have built athletic training and improved health care. For best
results, view with Mozilla Firefox. More
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Save Big Bucks by Volunteering!
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Sign up to help behind the scenes in Philadelphia and get a portion of your 61st NATA Annual Meeting & Clinical Symposia registration fee reimbursed. Volunteers must pre-register for the Annual Meeting.
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With a heavy duty PVC Tarpaulin shell, the Cramer Sideline Emergency kit is designed to help bring together all of the necessary emergency management tools into one easily identifiable and easy to organize wheeled bag. The four interior bags can be labeled for a variety of specific
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Three Weeks Left to Submit ATEC Proposals
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Beat the June 1, deadline to submit abstracts and proposals for the 2011 Athletic Training Educators' Conference, "Creating a Culture of Evidence Based Practice."
Use the online submission system today!
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JMU Video Featured On Cable TV Show
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Students at James Madison University created a video last month about athletic training set to the song "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson. The video gained
popularity on YouTube and was passed around other athletic training social media circles. Last week, it reached cable network station G4. Hosts on Attack of the Show don't completely understand the role of an athletic trainer, but they were nice enough to play JMU's clip. Watch the full video!
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Biodex has teamed up with 360 Balance to address the difficult return-to-play decisions with an objective web-based database solution that includes both cognitive and functional assessment.
Visit Biodex at NATA, Booth #1525. www.biodex.com/rehab MORE |
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Fun Run Turns Into Convention Shuffle
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The 2010 Convention Shuffle, formally the Foundation Fun Run, will be held at 7 a.m. on June 23. Sponsored by CleenFreek, the Convention Shuffle will feature new
age categories, including an under-18 division and over-60 race. Registration is $30, which includes roundtrip shuttle, T-shirt, a goody bag and a great time! You can sign up when you register for the Annual Meeting.
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NATA Celebrates Passage of FIT Kids Act
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NATA is excited that the Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act (HR 1585), one of NATA's federal legislative priorities, has passed the House. "We recognize that once we begin to empower Americans to take charge of their own health and inspire them to pursue physical activity that we can start to reverse the upward trends of obesity and related chronic conditions," said NATA President Marje Albohm, MS,
ATC.
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Attention, Secondary School Athletic Trainers
Get Your Students Involved In Philadelphia
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Do you have high school students who would like to learn more about the profession of athletic training? Sign up today for the first NATA High School Student Career
Day. The event will be June 24, at the Annual Meeting. Participants can attend the keynote address and 2010 National Quiz Bowl, learn about work settings and career opportunities, meet with a collegiate curriculum director, tour the exhibit hall and meet with athletic trainers from across the country.
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Philly Tip of the Week
"The Johnson & Johnson Feature Presentation will be entitled 'Preventing Sudden Death During Physical Activity.' At a fundamental level, all athletic trainers ought to be able to keep their patients alive. I
don't think we can ever spend too much time talking about those things that are the greatest risk factors for sudden death."
– Convention Program Committee Chair Rich Ray, EdD, ATC
Bone and Joint Decade Asks For Help From ATs
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The Bone and Joint Decade is developing a global self-help program that educates people with joint pain on how to use a combination of clinically proven self-help
techniques to actively manage their joint pain and improve their quality of life. The organization would like athletic trainers to complete a short questionnaire about joint pain. It’s seven questions and should take about 15 minutes. The Bone and Joint Decade hopes the result of this questionnaire helps define the appropriate core content and delivery concepts for the global program.
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Polar Care® Kodiak® Cold Therapy from BREG promotes faster recovery for a faster return to normal activity. Cold therapy penetrates deep into the joint reducing pain and swelling. Get the cold facts about cold therapy. Stop by BREG booth #1116 at the National Athletic Trainers Association meeting, or go to www.breg.com/ColdTherapy.
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Chattanooga’s Intelect® Transport systems are lightweight, battery or outlet-powered units featuring electrotherapy and ultrasound, or combination therapy. With an innovative compact design that lets you deliver effective, on-the-spot therapy to
athletes on the sidelines, the basketball court, baseball diamond, and athletic training facilities, wherever it’s needed. For more information visit www.chattgroup.com
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Big Ten Creating League-wide Concussion
Policy, Educating
Athletes on Head Injuries
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Athletes at Big Ten schools will be required to sign a waiver after receiving education about concussions, the conference’s medical staffs and athletic trainers have decided. The waiver will explain to athletes they are expected to be open and honest about their symptoms regarding head injuries to aid diagnosis and treatment of concussions.
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New Device
Could Prevent Heat Illness Death
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The Florida heat is here and it can be especially dangerous for athletes. A local doctor has developed a new tool to deal with the dangers of heat stroke and possibly save lives and it's being used at Boca Raton High School's spring football practice. This is the football practice you know. The tackling, the physical conditioning, the drills, those are the parts of football practice you
know. But at Boca Raton High's spring practice you might not recognize one drill. Each player gets a unique piece of protective equipment, an inch and a half long liquid crystal thermal strip placed on their foreheads.
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Foot Management is a custom orthotic laboratory with over 30 years experience. Our semi rigid custom orthotics are unmatched in both comfort and fit.
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Athletic Training Education Program
Accredited
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Saint Louis University
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Less than two years after admitting its first student, Saint Louis University's athletic training education entry-level master's program has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education. The SLU program is one of 369 CAATE accredited programs nationally and one of only 23 accredited entry-level master's programs in the country. In order to be
accredited, a program must first teach and evaluate each course and graduate its first class.
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Healing Injuries With Your Own Blood
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KMGH Denver
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Looking for relief from joint injuries or arthritis pain? Your own blood may hold the key. Tendon injuries account for 30
to 50 percent of all sports injuries. An experimental but promising new therapy has athletes using their own blood to end the pain. Tiger Woods claims it helped heal his injured knee, and the surgery-free alternative has athletes and weekend warriors alike lining up to give it a try.
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Study: Ankle Braces Help Prevent Injuries in Female Athletes
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Sports injuries among high school athletes is estimated at a staggering 2 million each year with 500,000 doctor visits and 30,000 hospitalizations, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ankle sprains are the most common sports related injury and the most common acute injury in volleyball. A recent study published in the April issue of Foot and Ankle International, the official journal of the
American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society, evaluates the effect of different types of ankle braces on the incidence of ankle sprains in high school volleyball players. The results show the use of an ankle brace significantly protects ankles from inversion ankle sprains among athletes who had not suffered from a previous injury.
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EC3D is the industry leader in compression technology through their use of medical testing and research to provide the most technical and optimal compression garment for performance and recovery. MORE |
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JOSPT’s continuing education program has earned high marks from ATs
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Compression short, with neoprene in the back of the leg, and supporting straps, can help prevent and treat hamstring injuries
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