SPORTS MEDICINE HOSA EXAM SCRIPT UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔4 basic patterns of movement - ✔✔Active
Passive
Assistive
Resistive
✔✔Nerve stimulation - ✔✔Check for motor and sensory to determine if affected area
has nerve damage
✔✔Normal Blood Pressure - ✔✔120/80
✔✔Systolic - ✔✔When the heart contracts
✔✔Diastolic - ✔✔As the heart relaxes
✔✔Team Physician - ✔✔To be available when emergency situations arise
Physicals
Clearing players to return to activity
✔✔BOC Certified Athletic Trainer - ✔✔Prevention
Clinical Education and Diagnosis
Immediate care
Treatment, rehabilitation, and conditioning
Organization and administration
Professional responsibility
✔✔Athletes - ✔✔Responsibility to maintain good physical condition
Practice techniques taught by coaches
✔✔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
✔✔Officials - ✔✔Responsible for enforcing fair rules, monitoring playing conditions, and
cooperating with AT and physician
✔✔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 environmental
conditions into consideration. Selecting, fitting, and maintaining protective equipment.
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.
✔✔Athletic Training Student - ✔✔Defined by interest , experience in allied healthcare,
desire to gain knowledge of profession. Start with maintaining a clean athletic training
area/facility. Other duties include inventory control, keeping track of supplies and
equipment, and communication to head trainer. Should have checklist for practice,
games, or road trips. Packing kits and other preparation activities. Preparing an
sport/electrolyte drink or water. Documenting weight before and after practice.
Recording for daily treatments. Treatments such as taping, wrapping,
changing dressings,giving minor treatments, and first aid procedures
✔✔To prevent cross contamination - ✔✔Why is it important to keep athletic training
facility clean?
✔✔Physical Rehabilitation program goal - ✔✔To return the injured athlete to pre-injury
levels of strength, power, endurance, flexibility, and confidence as quickly and safely as
possible.
✔✔Rehab program focuses on... - ✔✔Injured body part
✔✔What happens when if an athlete returns t activity without undergoing physical
rehabilitation? - ✔✔Could become re-injured.
✔✔2 principles to be avoided in rehab... - ✔✔Pain- should be avoided
Encouragement of the athlete
✔✔Aggressive rehab program will require... - ✔✔Particular exercise program by athlete
at a level slightly lower than what causes pain,
✔✔Daily adherence to rehab program benefits athlete how? - ✔✔-stays in the routine of
working out
-daily exercise will result in tangible results
- psychologically: athlete will feel better about themselves if allowed to participate in
his/her own recovery rather than watching practices.
✔✔5 phases of physical rehabilitation that need to be addressed- - ✔✔-post surgical/
acute injury
-early exercise
-intermediate exercise
-advanced exercise
-initial sports re-entry
✔✔Along with exercise, AT must also deal with .... - ✔✔-decreasing pain
- effusion
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔4 basic patterns of movement - ✔✔Active
Passive
Assistive
Resistive
✔✔Nerve stimulation - ✔✔Check for motor and sensory to determine if affected area
has nerve damage
✔✔Normal Blood Pressure - ✔✔120/80
✔✔Systolic - ✔✔When the heart contracts
✔✔Diastolic - ✔✔As the heart relaxes
✔✔Team Physician - ✔✔To be available when emergency situations arise
Physicals
Clearing players to return to activity
✔✔BOC Certified Athletic Trainer - ✔✔Prevention
Clinical Education and Diagnosis
Immediate care
Treatment, rehabilitation, and conditioning
Organization and administration
Professional responsibility
✔✔Athletes - ✔✔Responsibility to maintain good physical condition
Practice techniques taught by coaches
✔✔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
✔✔Officials - ✔✔Responsible for enforcing fair rules, monitoring playing conditions, and
cooperating with AT and physician
✔✔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 environmental
conditions into consideration. Selecting, fitting, and maintaining protective equipment.
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.
✔✔Athletic Training Student - ✔✔Defined by interest , experience in allied healthcare,
desire to gain knowledge of profession. Start with maintaining a clean athletic training
area/facility. Other duties include inventory control, keeping track of supplies and
equipment, and communication to head trainer. Should have checklist for practice,
games, or road trips. Packing kits and other preparation activities. Preparing an
sport/electrolyte drink or water. Documenting weight before and after practice.
Recording for daily treatments. Treatments such as taping, wrapping,
changing dressings,giving minor treatments, and first aid procedures
✔✔To prevent cross contamination - ✔✔Why is it important to keep athletic training
facility clean?
✔✔Physical Rehabilitation program goal - ✔✔To return the injured athlete to pre-injury
levels of strength, power, endurance, flexibility, and confidence as quickly and safely as
possible.
✔✔Rehab program focuses on... - ✔✔Injured body part
✔✔What happens when if an athlete returns t activity without undergoing physical
rehabilitation? - ✔✔Could become re-injured.
✔✔2 principles to be avoided in rehab... - ✔✔Pain- should be avoided
Encouragement of the athlete
✔✔Aggressive rehab program will require... - ✔✔Particular exercise program by athlete
at a level slightly lower than what causes pain,
✔✔Daily adherence to rehab program benefits athlete how? - ✔✔-stays in the routine of
working out
-daily exercise will result in tangible results
- psychologically: athlete will feel better about themselves if allowed to participate in
his/her own recovery rather than watching practices.
✔✔5 phases of physical rehabilitation that need to be addressed- - ✔✔-post surgical/
acute injury
-early exercise
-intermediate exercise
-advanced exercise
-initial sports re-entry
✔✔Along with exercise, AT must also deal with .... - ✔✔-decreasing pain
- effusion
