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After world war 1, a physician named Samuel “Doc” Bilik would create the first major text named "the trainer's bible" which would become one of the first advocate for evidence-based practices -
In order to boast sales for their chemical company, the Cramer family would start publishing "The First Aider" a monthly medical magazines that was made to allow athletic trainers to connect and share information
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The Indiana State University began offering a 4 year undergraduate degree in athletic training -
200 trainers met at Kansas city, founding the NATA -
The NATA created a curriculum for athletic training which would be used by Indiana State University in Terra Haute, Lamar State College in Beaumont, Texas, Mankato State College in Mankato, Minnesota, and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1970. -
Lindsy McLean petition for a certification examination to set a standard and solve any professional preparation issues. -
The NATA worked with the Professional Examination Services to develop the certification examination. -
The first 15 candidates took the first examination in Waco, Texas -
The American Medical Association would pass an acknowledgment that Athletic training is an important job for many fields -
The Carter administration saw it fit to create a standard for certifying agencies, thus creating The National Commission for Health Certifying Agencies. They were then put to work to make sure the certificate given by other organizations actually meant something and not worthless pieces of paper, especially when the public began to relay on said certificates. -
A total of 15,000 trainers were certified by the NATABOC. This time period also saw the increase in the numbers and types of certifications. -
The NATA applied for NCHCA accreditation in order to further legitimize their educational programs. Which causes the NATA to reorganizes their governance in order to meet the standard -
The NATA board of directors met in order to grant independence to the NATABOC, allowing it to grant certification without having to seek the NATA's approval. Each NATA district will also have to send 1 representative to join the board of certification, along with 1 physician and 1 public directors. -
Certified athletic trainers began meeting in Rutherford, New Jersey in order to discuses the different task that comes with being an athletic trainer, ranging from injuries, treatment, rehab, organization ,and administration. -
NATA's programs were able to meet the standards set by the NCHCA and became the first allied health organization. This allows for licensing agencies to give out licenses to NATA-certified athletic trainers -
The NATA worked with the US Patent Office, claiming the marks "ATC" and "CAT" and disallowing other organizations to claim those marks. Overall preventing confusion in the public space. -
The NATA saw it fit to give NATABOC complete Independence from the NATA, giving the NATABOC full responsibility and power to certify trainers. The NATA also give the NATABOC all needed all relevant certification
documents and materials. -
The education council of NATA was created to find out what is needed to be taught and how it should be taught in educational programs. The skills the council thought are important are risk management, pathology of injuries, orthopedic assessment and evaluation, acute care of injury, pharmacology, therapeutic modalities, and other skills
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35 out of the 50 would begin to regulate athletic training via license, state certification, or registration. However state certification is not the same as NATABOC certification but gaining the certification from the NATABOC is a requirement for some state's certification. -
As of 2023, the NATA has around 45,000 members worldwide. Each working in educational, industrial, military, hospitals, or care settings. While once mainly working with athletes, athletic trainers now help with anything involving physical skills