top of page
Search

Athletic Trainer or Athletic Trainer?

  • Shelby Daly
  • Oct 1, 2024
  • 1 min read

As we have wrestled with using "Athletic Trainer" as our professional title, have we actually moved away from a common definition of what defines an athletic trainer? What is the commonality that still unites us as a profession?



An example made by Anthony Maritado on LinkedIn about Physical Therapy:


"Words are important. 

When does “physical therapy” cease to be physical therapy?

Physical therapists have broadened their knowledge base in so many different ways that much of what I see posted on social media looks less and less like what I would call physical therapy. 

Is there still a true definition of “physical therapy” or is it just whatever a physical therapist does is now called physical therapy because it was performed by a physical therapist?"


Even though athletic training is expanding very quickly into different settings, are the irradiations deriving away from the common meaning of what an athletic trainer is?

 
 
 

Kommentare


bottom of page