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Athletic training is a medical profession[1] specializing in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries and illnesses in physically active populations.
History[edit]
Athletic training’s roots go back to the sport filled ancient Greek society where attendants would help athletes perform better and treat their injuries. Participation in athletics severely declined with the fall of the Roman Empire and with it did the practice that would become athletic training.[2][3]Modern athletic training evolved directly from the boxing cornermen who were hired by universities to treat their newly formed intercollegiate football teams in the mid to late 19th century. When the draft was instituted during World War II, many athletic trainers were assigned to their old duties within their units and returned to their traditional settings once the war was over.[2]
June 24-25, 1950 marked the first National (Athletic) Training Clinic (that would become the National Athletic Trainer’s Association’s National Meeting) and by the end of this clinic the National Athletic Trainers' Association that still exists today was formed.[2]
Education[edit]
Athletic training education was initially strictly apprenticeship based like the cornermen from which it evolved. Until the formation of the second National Athletic Trainers' Association in 1950 athletic trainers were very secretive with their techniques, only passing them on to nascent athletic trainers learning specifically from them. The new national association, however, brought forth a culture of the free sharing of ideas for the growth of the profession. 1952- Six universities offering AT majors[2]