| Reporting to the Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Health and Wellness, and working closely with team doctors, the Assistant Athletic Trainer helps athletes prevent and recover from sports injuries in duties that include but are not limited to:
Prevention and Recovery
Provides student-athletes with initial injury and illness evaluations, referrals, follow-up evaluations, wound care, emergency cardiac care with AED and other emergency care, injury rehabilitation, taping and bracing, and over the counter medicines. Provides treatments that include electrical stimulation, microcurrent stimulation, ultrasound, therapeutic massage, cryotherapy (e.g., cold whirlpool, ice pack, ice massage) and thermotherapy (e.g., warm whirlpool, hydrocollator). Performs injury rehabilitation and reconditioning, including therapeutic exercise such as theraband strengthening, core stability training, re-education of joint kinesthesia and proprioception, muscular re-education, and isotonic and isokinetic strengthening. Tapes and braces for musculoskeletal injuries.
Training
Provides practice and competition coverage, emergency and non-emergency medical care, injury evaluation, documentation, and rehabilitation
Administration
Manages inventory and purchasing. Coordinates processing of student-athlete health insurance claims with the Athletics Business Office. Organizes student-athlete physicals. Administers the drug education program. Manages the student worker program. |
