Main description:

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.

Contents:

DedicationAcknowledgments

List of Figures

About the Editors

Contributing Authors

Preface

Domain I Injury and Illness Prevention and Wellness Protection

True Story #1....... Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome in Collegiate Volleyball

Kate McCartney, MS, LAT, ATC

True Story #2....... Taking a Stand for the Health and Safety of Athletes

David H. Perrin, PhD, ATC, FNATA

True Story #3....... An Unknown Visitor

Larry Cooper, MS, LAT, ATC

True Story #4....... Returning a Complicated Exertional Heat Stroke Case
to Activity

Rebecca L. Stearns, PhD, ATC and Douglas Casa,
PhD, ATC, FNAK, FACSM, FNATA

True Story #5....... Conference Planning Saves Lives

Valerie Herzog, EdD, LAT, ATC

True Story #6....... Newly Certified Football Outcome

Kevin Conley, PhD, LAT, ATC

True Story #7....... Hey Ref!

Marirose Radelet, MS, PT, LAT, ATC

True Story #8....... Guns at the Field

Marirose Radelet, MS, PT, LAT, ATC

True Story #9....... He Has What?

Robert O. Blanc, MS, LAT, ATC, EMT-P

Domain II Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis

True Story #10..... This Wasn't in the Textbook

James Cerullo, PhD, ATC, CSCS

True Story #11..... A Complete Knee Dislocation

Peggy A. Houglum, PhD

True Story #12..... Always Find Out What They Are Doing in
Their Off Time

Mary Mundrane-Zweiacher, PT, ATC, CHT

True Story #13..... When Taking a Medical History, Don't Assume

Michael Hanley, ATC, LAT

True Story #14..... Being an Athletic Trainer and Father of a
Student Athlete

Jeff Shields, MEd, LAT, ATC, CEAS

True Story #15..... Think Horses, Not Zebras

Sarah Manspeaker, PhD, LAT, ATC

True Story #16..... Trust Your Education

Morgan Cooper Bagley, PhD, AT, ATC

True Story #17..... Bilateral Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear in a Female
Junior Varsity High School Basketball Player

Ryan Johnson, LAT, ATC

Domain III Immediate and Emergency Care

True Story #18..... Cervical Spine Management: Luck Meets
Preparation

Robert J. Casmus, MS, ATC

True Story #19..... Preparing for "That Moment"

Kyle Johnston, MS, ATC, LAT, Blake LeBlanc, PT, DPT,

ATC, LAT, and Sam Zuege, MS, ATC, LAT

True Story #20..... The Eyes Have It

Francis Feld, DNP, CRNA, LAT, ATC, NRP

True Story #21..... Heat-Related Illness, Emergency Medicine

Ryan McGovern, MS, LAT, ATC

True Story #22..... Noncontact Knee Dislocation

Tim Dunlavey, MS, LAT, ATC

True Story #23..... Responding to an Emergency Situation:
Quick Decisions Make for Positive Outcomes

Tim Giel, MS, LAT, ATC

Domain IV Treatment and Rehabilitation

True Story #24..... Legal Risk in Return-to-Play for a Softball Pitcher

Timothy J. Henry, PhD, ATC

True Story #25..... What is Your Influence?

Larry Cooper, MS, LAT, ATC

True Story #26..... Ballistic Trauma in a Collegiate Football
Student Athlete

Giampietro L. Vairo, PhD, LAT, ATC

True Story #27..... Neck Injury With an Unexpected Outcome

Gaetano Sanchioli, MS, LAT, ATC, PES

True Story #28..... Tiger Pride and Perseverance

Randy McGuire, MS, ATC, LAT

Domain V Organizational and Professional Health and Well-being

True Story #29..... Catastrophic Events Affect All Involved

Paul A. Cacolice, PhD, LAT, ATC, CSCS

True Story #30..... Conflict in the Workplace

Adam Annaccone, EdD, ATC, CES, PES

True Story #31..... Death of an Athlete

Richard Burr, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS

True Story #32..... The Value of Being Prepared for Emergencies

Keith M. Gorse, EdD, LAT, ATC

True Story #33..... An Athletic Trainer on a School Board

Bill Couts, LAT, ATC

True Story #34..... Murder in the Bluegrass

Al Green, MEd, LAT, ATC, EMT

True Story #35..... Vocational Discernment

Richard Ray, EdD, ATC

Financial Disclosures

Index