For this week I searched for a news article that shows an example of an Athletic Trainer in their field. This article was about how a local high school athletic trainer rushed over to school's quarterbacks and quickly took him off the field because she saw something off about how he was acting. Once the ambulance came her predictions were right because they found out that the quarterback was suffering from a paralyzing or fatal neck injury. Without the athletic trainer doing her job of observation the young kid could have easily died in the next play if tackled in the right place at the right time. Being aware of the surrounding around you makes an athletic trainer. Knowing everything around you is why a lot of people don't do this field because it's a hard skill to learn. Just like my past blogs about the athletic trainers needing to know all the tapings and wrappings, they need to know basically everything about their field and know when to act as well.
Green, Andrew. "A Worthy Task To Tackle." Orlando Sentinel [Orlando] 1985, n. pag. Print. <http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/keyword/athletic-trainers/featured/2>.
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