Athletic Training Chat

I’ve come to learn and accept that if you are doing something to just check it off a list, maybe it doesn’t need to be on your list.

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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. In this episode we talk about what has been happening with these injuries and a lot of t...

Katie Lee is a doctoral student at Baylor University who is focusing her dissertation work on staff wellness, burnout, and caffeine consumption as it relates to a solution. In addition to this important conversation, we also discuss acrobatics, which Katie is working with while going through her program. Burnout is obviously a big topic in the athletic training profession, rightfully so. Katie helps define burnout and talks about ...

Racism is wrong. Hate can’t be accepted. Just not being “racist” is not enough to propel change. In order to help create change, we have to listen, work to comprehend and accept the fact that those in privileged positions can never understand what diverse people go through. ATChat hasn’t put a statement out because we needed to listen and learn from people that experience racism on potentially daily basis. We denounce any form or...

Even today, doing what I do, these products that I sell and market is helping those athletes get back to what they love doing, playing that sport.

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I think the person first healthcare. More than who they are in sport is a big part of it for me.

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There are so many settings that athletic trainers can have an impact in. When it comes to the educational aspect, it is vital to the profession for obvious reasons. How do educators focus on keeping at the top of their game? Beth Shoulders discusses that very topic in this episode. Beth is the clinical education coordinator at Spalding University as well as an assistant professor. In addition to this role she is currenlty working ...

I will always value the relationships and the doors it has opened by coming into this profession. 

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Allison is an athletic trainer that has taken a unique career path in her professional life. She followed a “traditional” path with clinical experiences and getting her masters degree but then unique opportunities came up and she took advantage. Allison moved out of AT and started working for different medical related companies doing a variety of different roles but the entire time building a skillset that has allowed her to contin...

In this episode, we talk with Jessica McManus who is an athletic trainer that has been employed to work with patients in the Stewart County Georgia School System. We originally discussed the innovATe program with Dr. Christy Eason in Ep. ## and that is how we connected with Jessica. Jessica is serving this school district but in a unique way. She is doing it as a part-time athletic trainer in addition to her full-time work as an in...

Aaron Jackson talks with host Mercedes Himmons on the importance of mental health in our patients and the ATs role. This topic can’t be talked about enough and Aaron brings a lot of great insight and talks about the research he has been doing and how he applies best practices to working with his patients. Aaron provides so much insight into mental health and the ATs role. At times things can be overwhelming for an AT when they hav...

Eli Kassab is an athletic trainer that currently works in the sport setting but has done a little bit of everything, including spending some significant time in high-level football. Through all of this, Eli found himself getting burned out from the constant go of the profession. This led Eli to find some new opportunities to break the cycle of burnout and see what else might be next in his career. In this episode, we talk about bu...

Athletic training is a unique health care profession that in many of the “traditional” settings allows for patient interaction at minimum on a daily basis. This provides a unique opportunity for athletic trainers to be more to their athletes than just prevention, evaluation, treatment and rehab. Bonds of trust can get built as we often learn more about person lives than other health care providers are able to. Chelsea Matthew, an ...

Dr. Alejandra Merriman is an athletic trainer and teacher in the secondary setting in Los Angeles California. In addition to those full-time jobs, she is also one of founders of LatinxATs. In this episode, we talk about founding LatinxATs and the hashtag #equALLYATs. We discuss why founding this group was needed within athletic training and what their goals are. We also discuss diversity in the profession and what athletic trainer...

Mercedes Himmons is an athletic training and was one of our guests on the “Race in Athletic Training” episode. Mercedes provides unique and fantastic insight into race in the profession and her own interactions with it. We discuss inclusivity in the profession and how it is so important in the profession. Asking questions, listening and trying to comprehend what others go through is so important.  We also discuss Mercedes’s journe...

Ken Cieslak is a DC, AT but doesn’t necessarily use the skills in that order. In this episode, we discuss how it came to be that Ken pursued a chiropractic degree while keeping his AT credential and then ultimately staying predominately in the AT profession in the SSAT. It definitely surprised us. In this episode, we talk about how he came to be dual credentialed and what that has meant to his career. We also discuss evidence-bas...

When we kicked off ATChat there wasn’t much for Athletic Trainer podcasts and then there were several, another one right in Wisconsin. So we had to get together. In this episode we sit down with Chad and Kevan of the Candid Athletic Trainer podcast. We met up at Mueller Sports Medicine in the M Center to talk athletic training, how both of the podcasts got started and then we just let it go from there. We get into some of the best...

Jen Xu is a minimalist shoe enthusiast in addition to everything else she has going on. Jen is currently a PhD student at the University of Virginia, doing stand up comedy, taking care of a new puppy and writing on Medium. This discussion came up when Jen posted about the importance of the details and nuance that come with moving into minimalist shoes. This idea grew into the conversation we had about the importance of nuance in ev...