CATA Exam Prep - Part 1 - Health
Care, Legal Questions and Answers
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What are the disciplines athletic therapy draws on? - ✔✔exercise, medicine,
physical therapy, physical education, and sports
When did athletic therapy come into existence? - ✔✔19th century
What physician wrote the first major text on athletic training (The Trainer's
Bible, 1917) and was a major influence in developing athletic therapy? -
✔✔S.E Bilik
What are the goals of professional organizations? - ✔✔1) professional
standards
2) bring together individuals to exchange ideas, stimulate research,
promote critical thinking
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,3) opportunity to work as a group - achieve objectives that separately they
could not accomplish
International Federation of Sports Medicine - ✔✔- created in 1928 in
Switzerland at the Olympic Games
- purpose: to promote the study
American Academy of Family Physicians - ✔✔- 1947
- high quality standards for family doctors
National Athletic Trainers Association - ✔✔- 1950
enhance the quality of health care provided by certified athletic trainers
and to advance the athletic training profession
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) - ✔✔-1954
- all aspects of sports
American Orthopaedic society for sports medicine (AOSSM) - ✔✔- 1974
- American journal of sports medicine
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,- develop methods for safer, more productive, and more enjoyable fitness
programs and sport participation
National Strength and Conditioning Association - ✔✔- 1978
- exchange ideas in strength development
- CSCS, NSCA-CPT
American Academy of Paediatrics, Sports Committee - ✔✔- 1981
- special needs of children who participate in sports
American Physical Therapy Association, Sports Physical Therapy Section -
✔✔- 1981
NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of
Sports - ✔✔- desirable training methods, prevention and treatment of
sports injuries
- drug testing, drug education
- sports medicine handbook
National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) - ✔✔- 1987
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, - transforming lives & revolutionizing the health and fitness industry
Percentage of ATs in hospitals/ clinics - ✔✔40%
Employment settings for ATs - ✔✔- Clinics/hospitals - largest percentage
of ATs are employed in clinics/hospitals
- Industrial/occupational settings
- Corperate settings
- Colleges/university
- Secondary school
- "full-time, on-site, athletic trainer coverage for secondary-school athletic
programs" - NATA
- pro sports
- amateur sport
- performing arts
- military - over 100 in there now
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Care, Legal Questions and Answers
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What are the disciplines athletic therapy draws on? - ✔✔exercise, medicine,
physical therapy, physical education, and sports
When did athletic therapy come into existence? - ✔✔19th century
What physician wrote the first major text on athletic training (The Trainer's
Bible, 1917) and was a major influence in developing athletic therapy? -
✔✔S.E Bilik
What are the goals of professional organizations? - ✔✔1) professional
standards
2) bring together individuals to exchange ideas, stimulate research,
promote critical thinking
1
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,3) opportunity to work as a group - achieve objectives that separately they
could not accomplish
International Federation of Sports Medicine - ✔✔- created in 1928 in
Switzerland at the Olympic Games
- purpose: to promote the study
American Academy of Family Physicians - ✔✔- 1947
- high quality standards for family doctors
National Athletic Trainers Association - ✔✔- 1950
enhance the quality of health care provided by certified athletic trainers
and to advance the athletic training profession
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) - ✔✔-1954
- all aspects of sports
American Orthopaedic society for sports medicine (AOSSM) - ✔✔- 1974
- American journal of sports medicine
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,- develop methods for safer, more productive, and more enjoyable fitness
programs and sport participation
National Strength and Conditioning Association - ✔✔- 1978
- exchange ideas in strength development
- CSCS, NSCA-CPT
American Academy of Paediatrics, Sports Committee - ✔✔- 1981
- special needs of children who participate in sports
American Physical Therapy Association, Sports Physical Therapy Section -
✔✔- 1981
NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of
Sports - ✔✔- desirable training methods, prevention and treatment of
sports injuries
- drug testing, drug education
- sports medicine handbook
National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) - ✔✔- 1987
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, - transforming lives & revolutionizing the health and fitness industry
Percentage of ATs in hospitals/ clinics - ✔✔40%
Employment settings for ATs - ✔✔- Clinics/hospitals - largest percentage
of ATs are employed in clinics/hospitals
- Industrial/occupational settings
- Corperate settings
- Colleges/university
- Secondary school
- "full-time, on-site, athletic trainer coverage for secondary-school athletic
programs" - NATA
- pro sports
- amateur sport
- performing arts
- military - over 100 in there now
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