About Athletic Training
What Athletic Trainers Do
Athletic trainers provide a form of health care that includes preventing, recognizing, assessing, managing, treating, disposing of, and reconditioning athletic injuries. An athlete is a person who participates in an organized sport or sport-related exercise or activity. Athletic trainers provide services under the direction of a licensed physician.
Services provided by athletic trainers may include, but are not limited to:
- Managing the risk of an athletic injury or illness
- Preventing an athletic injury or illness
- Assessing an athletic injury or illness
- Providing immediate emergency care
- Providing therapeutic intervention for an athletic injury
- Reconditioning an athletic injury or illness
For more information, please see program rule 110.12.
Where Athletic Trainers Work
Athletic training services may be provided in any setting authorized by a physician. Athletic trainers typically provide services in high schools, colleges or universities, professional or amateur athletic organizations, athletic facilities, and health care facilities. However, athletic trainers may also provide athletic training in other settings.
Providing Health Care Services
Athletic trainers may provide other health care services only in accordance with state and federal laws regarding those services, including Occupations Code, Chapter 157, relating to a physician's delegated authority. For more information, please see program rule 110.12(d).
