ATTR 121 Lecture 4: ATTR 121 4
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A field that uses a holistic, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary approach to health care for those engaged in sporting or recreational activity. Early athletic trainers were not recognized as medical professionals primitive techniques of their treatments. 1938 early version of national athletic trainers" association (nata) formed. 1950 nata officially formed, first meeting in kansas city, missouri. 1990 american medical association recognizes athletic training as a medical profession. At came into existence in the late nineteen century with the establishment of intercollegiate athletes in the us. The first at possessed to technical knowledge and their practices consisted or rubdowns with a counterirritant (acts as an analgesic) In the 1930s an effort was made to establish a national organization but the association basically disappeared due to the difficulties of wwii. In 1950 in kansas missouri about 101 at officially formed the nata. And then in 1957 the very important code of ethics was established.