03/01/2022
March is National Athletic Training Month. Each year the National Athletic Trainers Association selects a theme for the month and this years theme is “Providing Healthcare Everywhere.” Even before Covid 19 and especially during the Covid 19 pandemic, Athletic Trainers have demonstrated versatility in the healthcare industry. ATs have shown capable of providing healthcare in a multitude of ways and settings for our patients. While some think of ATs strictly as athletic healthcare, our professionals have demonstrated we’re far more capable than that. During the pandemic, we’ve taken on roles alongside other healthcare providers in hospital settings and clinic settings providing assistance, we’ve performed contact tracing and so many other tasks related to the pandemic, but we’ve also never forgotten our mission of providing healthcare to an active population. Whether that’s our athletics population in secondary schools, colleges and professional sports or whether that’s in our industries, or in public safety and military. Athletic Trainers are healthcare. And we do it in a lot of different settings and different environments!
Please follow along on social media over the next month as we highlight the various settings ATs work in and the different roles we play. You can follow along with the hashtags and
