Emily Norcross, ATC, is an instructor in the athletic training program at the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.
Tag: Athletic Training
On June 16, Eight graduating students were the first to receive a Master of Athletic Training degree from the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.
Only 11 percent of those responding had implemented three primary “best-practice” recommendations for treating their student-athletes.
For a kama‘aina (local) from O‘ahu, the journey would comprise thousands of miles and a doctorate of physical therapy (DPT) degree. Grant says that he was never the smartest or the brightest but that he knew how to work hard. And so he set high goals – and went for them.
In an effort to bridge athletic training and public health, the Athletic Training and Public Health Summit highlighted issues important to athletic trainers and introduced how a population approach has, or could be, used to promote preventive practices at the population level.
Injury prevention programs can help reduce ankle, knee and other lower extremity injuries in sports, but the programs are not being widely used in high schools, a new study from Oregon State University has found.