True Stories from the Athletic Training Room

Are you a student who has made the exciting decision to become an athletic trainer?

Are you a faculty member looking to share with your students lessons, tips, and examples of what they can expect from this challenging and rewarding profession?

Are you a new clinician just beginning your career and looking ahead to many fulfilling years of working with athletes?

Then True Stories from the Athletic Training Room is the perfect text for you.

True Stories from the Athletic Training Room is a collection of 35 true-to life stories shared by certified athletic trainers from their work in industrial settings, high schools, colleges, professional teams, and sports medicine clinics.

Brought together by Keith M. Gorse, Francis Feld and Robert O. Blanc, True Stories from the Athletic Training Room is organized by the five domains of athletic training:

• Injury and Illness Prevention and Wellness Protection
• Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis
• Immediate and Emergency Care
• Treatment and Rehabilitation
• Organizational and Professional Health and Well-being

 
With this user-friendly organization, readers will be able to easily find examples of any true story they could imagine. Each story features the actual occurrence as it was told by the certified athletic trainer and gives the readers an opportunity to get a genuine feel of what the athletic training profession is really all about, with just a turn of the page.

True Stories from the Athletic Training Room will provide athletic training students, faculty, and clinicians the closest thing to a crash-course by exposing them to a diverse array of true to life occurrences about the past and present of health care management in sports and active lifestyles.

Keith M. Gorse would like to thank all of the certified athletic trainers for their time and personal true stories for a health care profession where new experiences are never ending. Keith would also like to thank his wonderful family (Betsy, Erin, and Tyler), for their continued support through all of the years of clinical and educational athletic training.

Francis Feld would like to thank the athletic trainers that were willing to contribute to this text. We can learn from history, but all too often these episodes are lost to time because they were not told. Confucius said, “Study the past if you would define the future,” and it is our hope that the next generation of athletic trainers benefit from these experiences. Francis would also like to thank his wife Christine for her love and support.

?Robert O. Blanc would like to thank all of the athletic trainers whose stories have, and will, pass on to future generations what this profession is truly about. The professionalism, caring, and dedication that is shown in the details of these stories and the millions of untold stories make what we do so special. Robert would also like to thank his wife Peggy for her unmatched love and support.
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