Athletic Trainer

Duties and responsibility:

            An athletic trainer is someone who conducts an initial assessment or illness in order to provide emergence or conduct care. It also includes care for athletics injuries using physical therapy equipment techniques and medication. You may also need to know how to apply protective or injured devised tape.

Salary: $44,235 - $51,483

Education:

            IN order to become an athletic trainer you must go to college. And get a bachelor degree. In CAATE, they have athletic programs to train you for prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, care, and rehabilitation of injuries. Programs also include academic and clinical components. You also need to get certified and licensed in order to be an athletic trainer.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

            I would not like to be one because I don’t want to be touching smelly feet or sweaty arms. And I don’t want to learn about all the bones and joints in the body. It’s just seems boring.