History/Sports Medicine Team Flashcards
When were intercollegiate/interscholastic athletes established?
Late 19th century
When did AT become a larger part of healthcare?
Post WWI
Dr. S.E Bilik
Physician who wrote The Trainer’s Bible in 1917
When was Cramer first established?
1920’s
When was First Aider first publicized?
1932
What is the First Aider?
Newsletter used as a resource for information and education
1930s
First attempt at NATA
National Athletic Trainer’s Association (NATA)
1950, publishes the Journal of Athletic Training
Primary purpose of NATA
To establish professional standards for the athletic trainer
Work settings:
- schools
- professional sports
- hospitals/clinics
- industrial settings
- military
- physician extenders
- medical equipment sales/support
- NASA
- NASCAR
Field of sports medicine
1) performance enhancement
2) injury care and management
Professional organization goals:
- To upgrade the field by devising and maintaining a set of professional standards (code of ethics)
- To bring together professionally competent individuals to exchange ideas, stimulate research, and promote critical thinking
- To give individuals an opportunity to work as a group with singleness of purpose, thereby making it possible for them to achieve objective that, separately, could not accomplish
International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS)
Created in 1928 at the winter olympics by doctors
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Founded in 1947 to promote and maintain high quality standards for family doctors who are providing continuous comprehensive medical care to the public
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
1954, membership composed of doctors, philosophers, physical educators, athletic trainers, coaches, exercise physiologists, biomechanists, etc. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (published worldwide)