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SWATA/NATA provides all athletic trainers the opportunity to remain informed about key health and musculoskeletal conditions as well as the skills needed to prevent, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate these said conditions to minimize athlete-patient impairments, functional/societal limitations and disability.

The following resources are available to help athletic trainers stay updated on best practices related to specific medical conditions.

ACL injuries only account for 3 percent of all injuries, but 88 percent of these injuries resulted in 10+ days of time lost.

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ACL
According to the CDC, 39.5 million people, including 10.5 million children, in the United States have been diagnosed with asthma.

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ASTHMA/EID
One in five Americans experience back pain each year, and eight in 10 will suffer from back pain in their lifetime.

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BACK PAIN

The CDC estimates 1.6-3.8 million concussions occur in sports and recreational activities annually. However, these figures vastly underestimate the total, as many individuals do not seek medical advice.

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CONCUSSION
Athletic trainers have the knowledge and skills base to make death from heat stroke completely preventable through safe practice of heat acclimatization. Our 2009 Consensus Statement below recommends a 14 day heat-acclimatization period prior to full scale athletic participation.

GSSI: Sodium Balance during US Football Training in the heat: cramp prone vs reference players

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HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION
According to the CDC, heat illness during practice or competition is the leading cause of death among U.S. high school athletes.

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HEAT ILLNESS
According to the CDC, lightning strikes Earth more than 8 million times per day. NOAA reports that from 2004-2013, 33 people were killed and 234 injured due to lightning.

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LIGHTNING SAFETY
Approximately 1 in every 4-5 youths in America meets the criteria for a mental health disorder. The rate of mental illness was more than twice as high for those 18-25 as in those aged 50 years and older.

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MENTAL HEALTH
The NCAA reports that disordered eating symptoms occur in approximately 25 percent of collegiate female athletes and 20 percent of male collegiate athletes competing in a diverse range of sports.

NATA News Article: Athletes, Cancer and Nutrition Considerations – Feb. 2016 (pdf)

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NUTRITION
Acute Rhabdomyolysis, tied to the sickle cell trait, has been reviewed as one of the top four killers in secondary school high school and college student athletes.

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SICKLE CELL TRAIT
At any given time, one out of every three people in the United States suffers from a skin disease.

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SKIN DISEASE
Of the 11,000 annual cases of spinal cord injury in the United States, sport participation is the second leading cause for individuals between the ages of 16 and 30.

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SPINE INJURY
According to the CDC, nearly 300,000 sudden cardiac arrests occur outside of hospitals each year in the United States alone.

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SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST