List the 4 relay "legs" necessary to keep athletes healthy - ✔✔ Injury and illness prevention
Injury and illness recognition and first aid care
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Assessment or diagnosis and treatment
rehabilitation
What is the primary role of the coach? - ✔✔ To minimize the risk of injury to the athletes under the coach's supervision
what is the coach's role defined by? - ✔✔ Certain rules of the legal system and rules of your school administration
Expectations of parents
Interactions with other athletic health care team members
What are the 9 duties of a coach - ✔✔ Properly plan activities
Provide proper instruction
Warn of inherent risks
Provide a safe physical environment
Provide adequate and proper equipment
Match your athletes appropriately
Evaluate athletes for injury or incapacity
Supervise the activity closely
Provide appropriate emergency assistance
properly planning activities - ✔✔ Teach the skills in the correct progression
Use developmental level and current physical condition to develop practice plans
Evaluate physical capacity with preseason fitness testing
Keep written records of fitness testing data and practice plans
providing proper instruction - ✔✔ Only allow athletes in proper condition to participate
Teach the rules, correct skills, and strategies of the sport
Teach skills and conditioning exercises in a progression
Keep current on safer techniques
Provide competent and responsible assistants
warning of inherent risks - ✔✔ Provide parents and athletes with both written and oral statements of risks
Warn athletes about potentially harmful conditions during game play and practice
providing a safe physical environment - ✔✔ Monitor current environmental conditions and make appropriate changes
Regularly inspect the playing areas, locker room, and other areas used during the sport
Remove potential hazards
Prevent improper and unsupervised use of facilities
provide adequate and proper equipment - ✔✔ Have athletes use equipment that gives maximum protection
Inspect equipment regularly
Teach athletes how to fit, use, and inspect equipment
match your athletes appropriately - ✔✔ According to size, physical maturity, skill level, and experience
Do not allow unequal match-ups (according to above criteria)
evaluate athletes for injury or capacity - ✔✔ Require all athletes to have a preseason physical
Do not allow athletes to practice unless they are pain-free and have complete function
supervise the activity closely - ✔✔ Don't allow athletes to practice potentially dangerous skills without supervision
Forbid horseplay
Do not allow athletes to use facilities without supervision
provide appropriate emergency assistance - ✔✔ Be certified for CPR/AED/1st Aid
Take action when needed
Law assumes that the coach will render 1st aid care for any athlete under his or her supervision
Use only the skills that you are qualified to administer
Obtain a signed consent form for minors
physicians - ✔✔ Only member of AHCT qualified to diagnose injuries and illnesses
Prescribe treatment and rehab
Give referrals for follow up care
athletic trainers - ✔✔ Trained specifically in prevention, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries
Provide immediate care as well as monitoring of injuries later
Can provide screenings and assessment of an athlete's abilities
Coach needs to
Provide info to ATC on how the injury occurred
Support the ATC's decisions
Encourage the athlete to be compliant
List the 5 conditions that prohibit athletes from returning to competition - ✔✔ Loss of function (not being able to walk, run, jump, sprint, or hop without limping or not being able to throw or grip with the hand)
Fever
Headaches, memory loss, dizziness, ringing in ears, or unresponsiveness from a head injury
Heat or cold related illnesses
Pain with activity
What is the coach's role if emergency personnel are not present at the scene of an injury? - ✔✔ Protect the athlete from further harm
send someone to call emergency medical personnel if necessary
evaluate the injury
administer first aid
provide the EMT's with information on how the emergency occurred and what first aid care was provided
members of the athletic health care team - ✔✔ athletes: must know their own role in health care when reporting injuries or illnesses,
parents: take athlete for physicals, watch for signs of injury/illness, ensure injury/illness is reported, and support decisions made by athletic health care team
emergency medical personnel: take over care of athlete
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