Athletic Trainer

Athletic Trainer

Duties and Responsibilities:

Athletic Trainers provide physical medicine, rehabilitative, and preventative services. Athletic trainers treat a breadth of patients including: professional, college, secondary school and youth athletes, dancers, musicians and military personnel. Athletic trainers work can work in a variety of locations including schools, physician clinics, hospitals and manufacturing plants. athletic trainer works in these fields formal instruction in areas such as injury/illness prevention, first aid and emergency care, assessment of injury/illness, human anatomy and physiology, therapeutic modalities, and nutrition

Salary:

$35,000 - $75,000 annually

Education:

To become a certified athletic trainer, you must graduate with a bachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited professional athletic training program and pass a comprehensive test administered by the Board of Certification.

Reflection: I wouldn’t like to work as an athletic trainer because It doesn’t call my attention and isn’t something I would like to do for the rest of my life it isn’t something I’m passionate about.