Topic 1: Introduction to the Sports Medicine Team (Athletic Therapy) Flashcards
What is CATA?
Canadian athletic therapist association formally known as Canadian athletic trainers association. Established in 1960s.
What is sports medicine?
- Broad field of medical practices related to physical activity and sport
- involves a number of specialities involving active populations (biomechanis, athletic therapists, physicians, the athlete, anatomy)
- relates to performance enhancement or injury care and management
Who and when was liniments developed for ankle sprains?
1 920’s - Cramers
Two subtopics under Sports Medicine?
- Performance enhancement 2. injury care and management
Types of specialists under performance enhancement.
Exercise physiology, biomechanist, sport psychology, sports nutrition, strength and conditioning, coaching, personal fitness training
- bigger sports teams might have all of these specialists
Why is a strength and conditioning specialist so valuable?
Help the athlete develop areas that will enhance performance, can even help transition the athlete out of rehab
Types of specialists under injury care and management.
Practice of medicine, athletic training, sports physical therapy, sports massage therapy, sports dentistry, osteopathic medicine, orthotics / prosthetics, sports chiropractic, sports podiatry
What does a sports medicine team consist of?
primary care team: provide immediate on-site health care
secondary care team: Group of specialized medical professionals
What is the core of the primary care team?
Highly trained medical professionals who are there to provide that immediate onsite health care for athletes
What is a PSW?
Personal support worker, they work with the lower functioning athletes because they require a bit more assistance in home care.
Professor mcroberts says who is the most important manager on the Paralympic sport team?
Equipment manager.
What does the primary care team consist of?
Athlete, coach, team doctor, athletic therapist
What is an athletic therapist?
A highly educated and skilled professional that is specializing in health care for the physically active. They are experts in preventing, recognizing, managing and rehabilitating injuries.
How to become an athletic therapist.
Need to go into a specialized program, and to become certified you need to graduate from a the accredited program, and then challenge the national certification exam
Roles and responsibilities of an athletic therapist
- Main role- injury prevention and health care provision of athletes
- if injury occurs, A.T. Help, treat and rehab athletes to return to play.
other responsibilities:
- critical evaluating and differential diagnosis
- Immediate and emergency care
- Treatment and rehabilitation
- organizational and professional health and well being
Ways that athletic therapists prevent an injury
- Introducing a strengthening program
What separates A.T. from other professionals?
Field care component along with being a first responder that are highly trained to respond to any injury that can occur within any sport environment.
What is the only profession that can see an athlete through the full continuum of care?
Athletic therapists.
Professional responsibilities as an athletic therapist
- A.T. as educator
- A.T. as counsellor
- A.T. as researcher (incorporation of evidence-informed practice) (ex. Prof had to research how to know where an athlete was hurt because the paralyzed cannot feel it)
- A.T. and continuing education to stay up to date on topics ( ex. Mental health first aid training, learning how to recognize red flags.)
Evidence-informed practice is a new term for evidence-based practice. Why is this a better term?
Because they are using what the medical literature says and also using knowledge from clinical experience as well.
Steps to ensure A.T. Is researching efficiently and legitamently.
- Develop question (PICO) (patient intervention comparison outcome) (ex. Patient: female soccer athletes, intervention: hamstring strengthening, comparison; male athletes or quad strengthening, outcome: preventing ACL injuries) this narrows resources to find specific answers
- search literature
- appraise evidence
- apply evidence
- assess outcomes
Primary care team: athlete responsibilities
- Performance and injury prevention
Primary care team: coach responsibilities
- Teach skills and strategies of a sport
- team leader
- administration
- injury prevention
- main objective: to win
Primary care team: team doctor responsibilities
- supervise health care of team
- determine mental and physical fitness of athletes
- can diagnose while A.T.s cannot
- support and coordinate other testing and communications with other health care facilities (easier access)
How can a coach prevent injury?
- the way they schedule practices
- how many games they may have
- proper development of skills (how to tackle properly)
Who makes up the support care team and the rest of the health services team?
Secondary care team members
4 professional organizations for sports medicine in Canada
Canadian athletic therapists association (cata)
national athletic trainers association
sport physiotherapy Canada
Canadian academy of sport and exercise medicine
When did CATA start?
1965
What is the CASEM association?
Canadian association of sports and exercise medicine. An association for doctors and physicians who specialize to become sports medicine doctors.
Who makes up the medical team at major games like the Olympics?
- Chief Medical officer ( sports medicine physician and member of casem)
- chief therapist (certified Canadian athletic therapist or diploma in sports physiotherapy certificate)
- health care team (medical physicians, physiotherapists, chiropractors, massage therapists, psychologist, certified A.T. s)
What does EAP stand for?
Emergency action plan
What is an EAP?
A plan that they have in place before they show up somewhere for any and many possible scenarios. Determines who’s going to be in charge, identified call person, where they are located and obstacles and who will be in control of everything else
