Athletic injury
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- (4) An athletic trainer must consult with or refer an athlete to a physician when the athletic injury is beyond the athletic trainer's scope of practice or expertise, or in those instances where the injury is not responding to treatment.
- To me, dealing with an athletic injury is on a smaller scale similar to the process of dealing with a death, or a significant loss.
- Athletic injury is accompanied by significant psychological distress, which has been shown to impair rehabilitation compliance and possibly physical recovery.
- For this purpose, an athletic injury is defined as an injury that occurs during an official practice, official competition, and/or official travel to and from said practices/competitions.
- Today, 20 years later, the theoretical and empirical knowledge base on psychological issues related to athletic injury is considerably more substantive, sophisticated, and definitive.
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