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athletic trainer

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athletic trainer,
an allied health professional who, with the consultation and supervision of attending physicians, is an integral part of the health care system associated with sports. Through both academic preparation and practical experience, the athletic trainer provides a variety of services, including injury prevention and recognition and immediate care, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic trauma.


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It covers the perspective of the athlete coping with an injury, but it also discusses how the athletic trainer can encourage the athlete's participation in the treatment program.
Sandy Hart, Grant High of Van Nuys' brave athletic trainer who touched the football team and community with her courage throughout a 15-year fight with bone marrow cancer, died Monday afternoon at the age of 46 from complications following a bone marrow transplant in Little Rock, Ark.
Mary Mundrane-Zweiacher, certified athletic trainer at an orthopedic and sport medicine practice in Delaware, offers some tips to avoid injury:
 
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