Evaluate, advise, and treat athletes to assist recovery from injury, avoid injury, or maintain peak physical fitness.

Other names for Athletic Trainers: Athletic Instructor, Athletic Trainer, Certified Athletic Trainer, Clinical Instructor, Fitness Specialist, Personal Trainer, Physical Trainer, Resident Athletic Trainer, Sports Athletic Trainer, Sports Medicine Trainer, Sports Trainer,

• Conduct an initial assessment of an athlete's injury or illness to provide emergency or continued care, and to determine whether they should be referred to physicians for definitive diagnosis and treatment.
• Care for athletic injuries using physical therapy equipment, techniques, and medication.
• Evaluate athletes' readiness to play, and provide participation clearances when necessary and warranted.
• Apply protective or injury preventive devices such as tape, bandages, or braces to body parts such as ankles, fingers, or wrists.
• Assess and report the progress of recovering athletes to coaches and physicians.
• Collaborate with physicians to develop and implement comprehensive rehabilitation programs for athletic injuries.
• Advise athletes on the proper use of equipment.
• Plan and implement comprehensive athletic injury and illness prevention programs.
• Develop training programs and routines designed to improve athletic performance.
• Travel with athletic teams to be available at sporting events.
• Instruct coaches, athletes, parents, medical personnel, and community members in the care and prevention of athletic injuries.
• Inspect playing fields to locate any items that could injure players.
• Conduct research and provide instruction on subject matter related to athletic training or sports medicine.
• Recommend special diets to improve athletes' health, increase their stamina, or alter their weight.
• Massage body parts to relieve soreness, strains, and bruises.
• Confer with coaches to select protective equipment.
• Accompany injured athletes to hospitals.
• Perform team-support duties such as running errands, maintaining equipment, and stocking supplies.
• Lead stretching exercises for team members prior to games and practices.

• Orthopedic splint systems
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
• Electromyography EMG units or accessories
• Skinfold calipers
• Pelvis or back traction supplies
• Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs
• Crutches or crutch accessories
• Desktop computers
• Pedal exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy
• Emergency response litters or stretchers or accessories
• Resistance bands
• Pedal exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy
• Treadmill exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy
• Resistance tubes
• Facial shields
• Orthopedic splint systems
• Weights or sets or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy
• Goniometers
• Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs
• Medical hydrocollators or accessories
• Knee braces or hinged knee supports
• Notebook computers
• Leg orthopedic softgoods or accessories
• Pelvis or back traction supplies
• Medical exam or non surgical procedure gloves
• Patient floor scales
• Facial shields
• Dynamometers
• Cervical collars or neck braces
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR protective shields or masks
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
• Parallel bars for rehabilitation or therapy
• Personal computers
• Pulse oximeter units
• Rowing machines
• Psychrometers
• Spine boards
• Safety helmets
• Climbing devices for rehabilitation or therapy
• Therapeutic balls or accessories
• Therapeutic paraffin baths or accessories
• Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use
• Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care
• Traction splint sets
• Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units
• Two way radios
• Arm orthopedic softgoods
• Orthopedic splint systems
• Canes or cane accessories
• Weight machines for rehabilitation or therapy
• Full body immersion hydrotherapy baths or tanks

Word processing software

Calendar and scheduling software

Spreadsheet software

Data base user interface and query software

Medical software

Internet browser software

Electronic mail software