Sections 2 (Chapters 5-

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Athletic Training and Sports Medicine

Gaylen = The Father of Modern Medicine

What is Athletic Training?

It involves the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries to physically active individuals and athletes.

What is Sports Medicine?

An umbrella term that describes the various issues interrelated among medicine, physical activity, exercise, health promotion, and disease prevention.

Primary Responsibilities

Prevention of athletic injuries

Pre-participation physical examination

Aware of physical, environmental, and practice conditions that could cause injury

Recognition, Evaluation, and Assessment of Athletic Injuries

Immediate care of athletic injuries

Treatment, rehabilitation, and reconditioning of injuries

Exercise Activities

Therapeutic modalities

Organization and Administration

Professional development and responsibility

Providing coverage

Legal and insurance issues

Working with the team physician

Guidelines for Sports Medicine

Team physician consensus statements guide the activities and responsibilities of the team physician.

Current Issues

Concussion

Management

Most common sport-related concussion is the diffuse brain injury

Occurs when a side-to-side or front-to-back motion causes the brain to be shaken within the skull

Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction

Ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body

Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation

Used to repair defects in the articular cartilage of joints by injecting cultures cells into the joint

Arthroscopic

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Exercise and Sport Nutrition

Insert Tables 6.1, 6.4 & 6.5

Nutrition for Health

Epidemiology Studies: Have demonstrated relationships between diet and increased risk for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, obesity, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, and certain forms of cancer.

Nutritional Programs:

D.A.S.H

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Table 6.6

Carbohydrate Intake

Blood glucose and muscle glycogen provide energy for exercise

Important during moderate to high intensity exercise

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