Athletic Training Chat

Mark Hinton is one of the best in country (if not more) when it comes to treating track and field athletes. Mark has worked with some of the highest level athletes not only in the country but on the world stage. Mark is the guy that when I needed an idea to try out to help an athlete I would look to him to see what he was doing.

Dr. Natasha Denmark is an athletic trainer who is currently not working in a traditional setting and has done a lot of different things in her career and we try and cover it all. Natasha teaches sports medicine at the junior college level, which isn’t going on to be a CAATE accredited program but she describes how this course work can help assist people into the right school route to fulfill their career. We also talk about her work in her dissertation and the way the DEI has played a huge role in her life and she shares her story of coming to the US and it is powerful.

Scott is now an athletic trainer in the Baltimore Orioles organization where you is the Minor League Medical Coordinator. Scott has done quite a bit in his career and seen athletics on many different levels. He has been at a D1 level for baseball and the moved to DIII and because the head athletic trainer. There are plenty of transitions just within that change but to then take the next step, Scott is now working in professional baseball.

Dr. Nikki Harris is a professor with the AT Still DAT Program and spends a lot of her time in service to the athletic training profession. In this episode we discuss how the NATA Career Advancement Committee came to be and how that plays into the young professional’s world of athletic training. As a compliment to being the chair of that committee, Dr. Harris also is on the NATA AT Compensation Task Force, focusing on Education to help better understand what ATs can do to help with compensation.

In this episode we get to talk to Jennifer Volberding who does a lot of everything at Oklahoma State University. Jen has done a lot in her athletic training career so far. She spent a significant amount of time in the clinical setting working with a variety of sports at different levels that gave her unique insight as she moved into her role as an educator. 

Rick Cox is the head athletic training and strength and conditioning coach at Suffolk University, he is also our first repeat guest on ATChat. If you follow Rick at all on social media you know he is constantly focusing on leadership and sharing what he is currently reading on the top. You can also make the safe bet that it might have to relate to Jocko Willink and Extreme Ownership.

Rob Dicks does just a little bit of about everything. Not only does Rob wear multiple hats as an athletic trainer, he goes beyond that with administrative duties, community volunteering and his mentorship.

Dr. Stamm is an athletic trainer, neuroscientist and concussion researcher. She recently wrote a book on how concussions and repetitive impacts can affect the brain of the developing of young children. This is obviously a big deal and it has become even more of a discussion with some of the high profile injuries that have occurred in the NFL.

Highlighting some of our episodes for #NATM2024

Mike Stella is an ATC and manual therapist who is the founder of The Movement Underground and also an instructor for RockTape. Mike has done a lot of novel things when it comes to athletic training and that includes owning and operating his own practice. This is not a common aspect of athletic training and Mike shares how he went about getting started and where he sees that area of service in athletic training advancing in the future.

Joshua is an athletic trainer who works in the secondary setting and is a huge advocate of why it is so important in the athletic training profession. This is a sentiment I couldn’t agree with more as it is commonly the first interaction most patients have with an athletic trainer. This can be a huge opportunity to show the value of athletic training and have such an impact as people move on to collegiate athletics or if they interact with one in a clinic down the road.

Joshua talks about why he thinks the setting is one of (maybe the main) front porch to athletic training and why it is so important. He highlights a lot of the opportunities he sees in this setting as well as some of the challenges that come with it. There seem to be several on both sides but the opportunities win out. He also discusses what advice he would give someone heading into this setting and things that he has learned along the way. A great episode that highlights a vital part of the athletic training profession.

In This Episode:

+The importance of the secondary setting AT

+Challenges working in this setting

+Life balance in this setting

+How this setting impacts athletic training as a whole

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