Sports Medicine I - Chapter 1

A highly educated allied health care professional and is a credentialed specialist in athletic training is an ATC

Coaches must engage in a continual process of education to further their knowledge in their particular sport.

A certified personal fitness trainer is responsible for the immediate care and treatment of injuries.

The governing body of Certified Athletic Trainers:

A personal fitness trainer is responsible for designing comprehensive exercise/fitness programs for individual clients

HIPAA regulates how individuals who have health information about an athlete can share that information with others

Which of the following statements is true about coaches in the sports medicine team?

Prevention of injury is a minor goal of athletic training.

An organization formed in 1950 that works to improve the quality and status of athletic training:

In the context of the sports medicine team, which is a responsibility of strength and conditioning coaches?

Who is ultimately responsible for deciding when an injured athlete is likely to return to full activity?

In the sports medicine team, the nurse is usually responsible for the recognition of sports injuries.

Personal fitness trainers have to be certified in order to work with clients in a health club setting.

Team physicians primarily work under the supervision of an athletic trainer.

In the sports medicine team, a primary responsibility of the athletic trainer is to ________.

Who is most likely responsible for establishing a budget for funding all aspects of an athletic health care program?

The American College of Sports Medicine offers certification to personal fitness trainers.

Which member of the sports medicine team should be consulted for problems and lesions occurring on the skin?

Athletic training is:

Who is responsible for compiling medical histories and conducting physical examinations for each athlete is the _____.

Which of the following definitions best describes the field of "sports medicine"?

Who among the following is most directly responsible for all phases of health care in an athletic environment?

Who among the following uses a variety of intervention strategies to help the athlete cope with injury?

Whose priority is the health and safety of the student athlete?

Team physicians are responsible for compiling medical histories and conducting physical examinations for each athlete.

Who among the following is part of the sports medicine team?

Team physicians must have absolute authority in determining the health status of an athlete who participates in sports.

HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Who among the following may be considered a health care provider?

A coach is directly responsible for preventing injuries.