Dedication
Photo and Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Interview Participants and Contributors
Foreword by Jay Hertel, PhD, ATC, FNATA
Preface
Section I Understanding Athletic Training
Chapter 1 Athletic Training: An Allied Health Profession
Chapter 2 Historical Perspectives and Future Directions
Chapter 3 Getting Started: Educational Requirements for Athletic
Training
Chapter 4 Educational Resources for Athletic Training Students
Section II Common Injuries and Conditions
Chapter 5 Understanding Athletic Injury/Illness: Terminology and
Classification
Chapter 6 Common Injuries to the Lower Extremity
Chapter 7 Common Injuries to the Upper Extremity
Chapter 8 Common Injuries to the Head, Face, and Spine
Chapter 9 Common Injuries to the Abdomen and Thorax, and General
Medical Conditions
Section III Planning, Prevention, and Care
Chapter 10 Blood-Borne Pathogens and Standard Precautions
Chapter 11 Emergency Planning and Injury Evaluation
Chapter 12 Environmental Concerns
Chapter 13 First Aid and Initial Injury Care
Chapter 14 Components of Rehabilitation
Chapter 15 Taping and Bracing
Section IV Preparing for Success
Chapter 16 Looking Ahead
Appendix A Board of Certification Standards of Professional
Practice
Appendix B Athletic Training Manifesto
Appendix C The Musculoskeletal System
Appendix D Sport Concussion Assessment Tool-5th Edition (SCAT5)
Appendix E Sample History and Pre-Participation Physical
Examination Forms
Appendix F REsumE Action Words
Index
Andrew P. Winterstein, PhD, ATC is a distinguished clinical
professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison where he currently serves as the program director
of the athletic training professional preparation program. A
graduate of the University of Arizona, University of Oregon, and
UW-Madison, Dr. Winterstein has been active in athletic training
patient care and educational programming at UW-Madison since
1986.
Dr. Winterstein's academic interests include: emerging technologies
and their use in teaching and learning, medical humanities and
their application to athletic training education, organizational
dynamics, educational interventions/behavioral change, and
patient-reported outcome measures following injury. His papers and
abstracts have appeared in a variety of athletic training and
sports medicine journals, and he has been privileged to make
numerous professional presentations at state, regional, national,
and international conferences.
In addition to this text, he is the coauthor of Administrative
Topics in Athletic Training: Concepts to Practice, Second Edition
with Gary Harrelson and Greg Gardner and coauthor of The Athletic
Trainers Guide to Differential Diagnosis: A Visual Learning
Approach with Sharon Clark.
Dr. Winterstein has received numerous awards, including the 2017
Sayers "Bud" Miller Distinguished Educator Award, 2016 National
Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) Most Distinguished Athletic
Trainer Award, 2008 Great Lakes Athletic Training Association
Outstanding Educator Award, 2007 Wisconsin Athletic Trainers'
Association Outstanding Educator Award, and the 2006 UW-Madison
School of Education Distinguished Service Award. He and his
colleagues are 3-time winners of the NATA Educational Multimedia
Committee award for educational innovations and have been awarded
the MERLOT Classics Award for exemplary online learning
objects.
Andy enjoys fly fishing, standup paddling, watch collecting,
reading, and writing. He resides in Madison, Wisconsin with his
wife, Barb.
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