Includes index.

Contents: 1. Professional development and responsibilities: The athletic as a health care provider -- Health care organization and administration in athletic training -- Legal concerns and insurance issues -- 2. Risk management: Fitness and conditioning techniques -- Nutrition and supplements -- Environmental considerations -- Protective equipment -- Wrapping and taping -- 3. Pathology of sports injury: Mechanism and characteristics of musculoskeletal and nerve trauma -- Tissue response to injury -- 4. Management skills: psychosocial intervention for sports injuries and illnesses -- On-the field acute care and emergency procedures -- Off-the-field injury evaluation -- Infectious disease, bloodborne pathogens and universal precautions -- Using therapeutic modalities -- Using therapeutic exercise i rehabilitation -- Pharmacology, drugs, and sports -- 5.Musculoskeletal conditions: The foot -- The ankle and lower leg -- The knee and related structures -- The thigh, hip, groin, and pelvis -- The shoulder complex -- The elbow -- The forearm, wrist, hand, and fingers -- The spine -- General medical conditions: The head, face, eye, ears, nose, and throat -- The thorax and abdomen -- Skin disorders -- Additional general medical conditions --