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checking for flexibility and muscle endurance, examining a person’s posture and body composition, and assessing heart health. Once ATs identify any potential problems, they recom- mend ways to help a person strengthen her body, eat right, stay hydrated, and keep her body healthy and injury-free. An AT’s interest in injury prevention is not limited to ath- letics. An increasing number of manufacturing, construction, and industrial businesses are using the expertise of athletic trainers to make their workplaces safer. An AT’s efforts may be as personal as working with an employee to improve his lifting posture or as far-reaching as requiring secondary safety har- nesses to keep workers upright. Using their knowledge of

While often confused with personal trainers, athletic trainers are allied health care profes- sionals.

What Does an Athletic Trainer Do?

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