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Athletic trainers wear many hats

By Ted Allen
Lynchburg News & Advance
March 28, 2007

March is designated as National Athletic Trainers Month to recognize the work they do behind the scenes, enabling athletes to perform at their highest levels on the field.

Much like a paramedic, the athletic trainer's primary responsibility is to provide emergency first aid.

"We're the first to see everything and make a determination to see if we need to send them to the hospital or if it's something we can treat in-house," Curd said.

But their job goes beyond initial treatment and evaluation. It also involves injury prevention and rehabilitation.

"It entails a lot more than taping ankles and applying band aids," Liberty Christian Academy athletic trainer Angie Witt said.

Read the rest of the article, here...
...includes quotes by LU alum and former WBB Angie Witt.
http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Sate ... th=!sports

I had nooooo idea

"You don't wish an injury upon anyone, but part of the excitement of the job is the moment when you go into action to help somebody," he said. "I don't want anybody to get hurt, but I do enjoy the thrill and excitement of taking care of an injury."

I must be the worlds most jaded person

no thrills here.

Now you know why I want you to speak to one of our classes...
...can't say I agree with the quote about the thrill of an injury, either.

2 questions:

1. Are AEDs placed in all LU facilities yet? (if not, when?)

2. Are ambulances mandatory at all sporting events or just football?

In answer to your second question, no. No ambulances are present at tennis matches...and yes, we do have injuries occur. A guy from Southern Virginia broke his leg while playing on our courts. However, I have not been to any schools where an ambulance has been present for a match, including Mary Washington where our guys played in the fall in 90+ degree weather.

AED's are at every ATHLETIC EVENT at LU.

Ambulance at FBL and hoops in the Vines.

We had docs on site and the campus EMT's on site when we hosted the Big South M-soccer tourney here back in 2000.

....sigh

Side Note: They dont have any type of medkit/ice/anything useful at intramurals..... although it doesnt matter so much a guy on our soccer team last fall broke his fibula and tore all the muscles in his ankle, and the ims staff was just sitting around like what do you seriously expect us to have something??

Which is why protocol is to call the LU EMT's for those sorts of conditions.

Fumblerooskies wrote:Which is why protocol is to call the LU EMT's for those sorts of conditions.

yeah- I've seen the JEEP.

nice.

you could also hail a taxi.

* THIS IS NOT A SHOT AT THE FINE MEN/WOMEN IN BLUE. they need the tools to do the job, and that 1985 Cherokee I saw aint cuttin' it.

I guess the jeep is a step up from a rickshaw