Personal Narrative: My School Athletic Trainer

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Wednesday after school I observed our school athletic trainer for approximately an hour. During the hour he was not working much because winter sport season were ending so he helped any athletes who had injury that needed to be observed. While I was there, I saw a dancer get her big toe taped because she had turf toe, a hyperextension of the Hallicus. Before practice, two girl basketball players got their ankles taped because they recently rolled or sprained them. That day in sports medicine we were just taught how to tape ankles so Ross taught and helped me with taping and gave me some tips when I am taping a patient’s ankle. As we were told, everyone tapes ankles differently so watching Ross tape, he tends do put his anchors on first and

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