Evaluate, advise, and treat athletes to assist recovery from injury, avoid injury, or maintain peak physical fitness.

• Athletic Trainer

• Accompany injured athletes to hospitals.
• Advise athletes on the proper use of equipment.
• Apply protective or injury preventive devices such as tape, bandages, or braces to body parts such as ankles, fingers, or wrists.
• Assess and report the progress of recovering athletes to coaches and physicians.
• Care for athletic injuries using physical therapy equipment, techniques, and medication.
• Collaborate with physicians to develop and implement comprehensive rehabilitation programs for athletic injuries.
• Conduct an initial assessment of an athlete's injury or illness to provide emergency or continued care, and to determine whether they should be referred to physicians for definitive diagnosis and treatment.
• Conduct research and provide instruction on subject matter related to athletic training or sports medicine.
• Confer with coaches to select protective equipment.
• Develop training programs and routines designed to improve athletic performance.
• Evaluate athletes' readiness to play, and provide participation clearances when necessary and warranted.
• Inspect playing fields to locate any items that could injure players.
• Instruct coaches, athletes, parents, medical personnel, and community members in the care and prevention of athletic injuries.
• Lead stretching exercises for team members prior to games and practices.
• Massage body parts to relieve soreness, strains, and bruises.
• Perform team-support duties such as running errands, maintaining equipment, and stocking supplies.
• Plan and implement comprehensive athletic injury and illness prevention programs.
• Recommend special diets to improve athletes' health, increase their stamina, or alter their weight.
• Travel with athletic teams to be available at sporting events.

• administer medications or treatments
• analyze patient activity
• communicate visually or verbally
• counsel patients concerning diet
• follow patient care procedures
• identify body response variations
• motivate patients to practice exercises
• observe patient condition
• recommend personnel actions, such as promotions, transfers, and dismissals
• use emergency medical procedures
• use first aid procedures
• use massage therapy procedures
• use medical equipment in direct patient care
• wrap ankles, fingers, wrists, etc. to support muscles or ligaments