may protect against cataracts.
(citrus fruits & juice, strawberries, spinach.
2. Vitamin A: Essential for vision and keeps tissues and skin healthy
3. Folate (Folic Acid): Helps prevent birth defects, Key element for new cell cre-
ation
(Cereals, asparagus, orange juice)
4. Nerve stimulation: Check for motor and sensory to determine if affected area
has nerve damage
5. Normal Blood Pressure: 120/80
6. Systolic: When the heart contracts
7. Diastolic: As the heart relaxes
8. Team Physician: To be available when emergency situations arise
Physicals
Clearing players to return to activity
9. BOC Certified Athletic Trainer: Prevention
Clinical Education and Diagnosis
Immediate care
Treatment, rehabilitation, and conditioning
Organization and administration
Professional responsibility
10. Athletes: Responsibility to maintain good physical condition
Practice techniques taught by coaches
11. Parents: Assist in keeping athlete healthy and are updated about injury or
illness. Should be provided with info on nutrition and recommend home treatments.
If athlete is a minor, AT should alert parents immediately
12. Officials: Responsible for enforcing fair rules, monitoring playing conditions, and
cooperating with AT and physician
13. Coaches: Must plan practices that include conditioning and training of athletes
and teach techniques and rules of sport.
Practices must be of reasonable duration, taking skill level, fatigue, and environmen-
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, tal conditions into consideration. Selecting, fitting, and maintaining protective equip-
ment. Supervision of practice and game facilities must be reviewed by coaching staff.
Must update education by attending clinics, review rule change, skill development,
first aid/ CPR. Athletes wellbeing is 1st. Works close with team physician and BOC
certified AT.
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