{"id":59194,"date":"2021-03-29T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=59194"},"modified":"2021-03-29T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:48:37","slug":"national-athletic-training-month-a-busy-one-at-fhsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=59194","title":{"rendered":"National Athletic Training Month a busy one at FHSU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March is National Athletic Training Month, and March 2021 has been one of the busiest ever for athletic trainers at Fort Hays State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As primary care providers for FHSU\nstudent-athletes participating in varsity sports, athletic trainers (ATs) are\nresponsible for the care of student-athletes in 16 men\u2019s and women\u2019s varsity\nsports. In addition to providing medical services for the 10 athletic teams\nthat regularly compete during the spring semester, the eight-member AT staff\nalong with the two-member AT faculty have also been busy caring for fall sports\nathletes whose seasons were pushed until this spring because of the coronavirus\npandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year \u2013 like no other \u2013 the ATs have\nwelcomed the help of athletic training students completing supervised clinical\nrotations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely been all hands-on deck\nthis semester,\u201d said Dr. David Fitzhugh, director of the Athletic Training program.\n\u201cAlong with all the normal services for injury prevention and care, there have\nbeen COVID-19 testing protocols, contact tracing, quarantine\/isolation\nmonitoring, and extra cleaning procedures. With all the additional sports\ncurrently active \u2013 and extra responsibilities \u2013 this spring, we would be having\na harder time getting everything done without our athletic training students\u2019\ncontributions during their supervised rotations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Harris, a junior from Wichita, is\nthankful for the additional educational opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI appreciate getting to work with all\nsorts of athletes in a variety of sports,\u201d Harris said. \u201cInjuries are different\nfor different sports, and the wide knowledge base of treating different\ninjuries is invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris, set to graduate with his\nbachelor\u2019s degree in May 2022, has worked with the ATs in five different Tiger\nsports and has done a clinical rotation at a local high school as well. Even\nbefore the pandemic, Harris felt he was gaining some of the best real-life\nexperiences available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe opportunities here at Fort Hays\nState have given me incredible hands-on experience,\u201d Harris said. He gave as an\nexample the difference between testing ligaments and muscles of his peers in a\nclassroom setting to performing the same procedure on an injured athlete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a different scenario\nwith every patient,\u201d he said. \u201cThe opportunity to test a torn ligament on an\ninjured athlete, as opposed to a ligament on a healthy classmate, helps our\nevaluation skills tremendously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opportunity for hands-on experience\nearly on in the program is what drew Josh Walker to FHSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walker, a graduate student from Windsor,\nColo., transferred to Fort Hay State from Brown Mackie College in Salina, and\nthe AT program helped him fulfill his love of sports and a passion for helping\nothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He earned his bachelor of science degree\nin athletic training in 2020 and is now pursuing his master\u2019s in Health and\nHuman Performance. \n\n\u201cI enjoy helping people, and this is a perfect\nmixture of helping someone while participating in sports in some way,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIt\u2019s really rewarding to watch athletes come back from injuries, knowing you\nhelped them in some way to accomplish that goal of getting back into action.\u201d\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS March is National Athletic Training Month, and March 2021 has been one of the busiest ever for athletic trainers at Fort Hays&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59195,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59194\/revisions\/59195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}