SPORTS TRAINER
A
Sports Trainer or also known as Athletic Trainer is a certified individual who
is trained in the prevention and immediate treatment of athletic injuries. The Sports
Trainer provides a crucial link between the coach,player and health
professional. So basically, Sports Trainer’s prime responsibility is to make
sport safer. This is achieved by:Implementing
appropriate injury prevention protocols,Preparing players for competition,Providing
the appropriate immediate management of injuries,Providing immediate crisis
management of severe injuries,Informed referral of injuries to a more qualified
health professional for further advice and management,Working in conjunction
with health professionals (e.g. physiotherapist or GP) to ensure a safe return
to play for injured players,Educating players and coaching staff in relation to
return to play principles.There are two level of Sports
Trainer; level 1 Sports Trainer will be able to competently manage sporting
injuries and effectively carry out DRABCB,CPR,STOP,TOTAPS,RICER while level 2
Sports Trainer will be able to effectively carry out the roles and
responsibilities of the level 1 sports trainer.[1]
Nobody
realized who is behind and acts as a backbone for atheletes except coach.
Sports Trainer play an important role for any sports that anybody involved.
Sports Trainer can also be considered like a second doctor for athletes. Sports
Trainer who work with athletes and sports teams are always around with sports
and learn the games from an intimate perspective of talented players. Besides,
trainers who are hired by colleges or professional team often travel with the
teams, dealing with different injuries or environment working with the players
as part of the coaching machine to help them win throughout the season. In a
real way, Sports Trainer are literally part of the team, so when the team wins,
the trainers also win as well making them want to work more for something each
day,they show up for work. Besides, being part of the Sports Trainer is also
good where it can simply help our body become fit. It is a good way to exercise
and to develop various skills. [2]
There
are many benefits if become a Sports Trainer. Sports Trainer help to prevent
and treat injuries in people who are physically active. First, people will
become more aware of sports related injuries at young age. Secondly, the
growing population of active middle-age and elderly individuals will increase
the demand for trainers due to athletic-related to help reduce injuries such as
sprains. Third, many companies are hiring sports trainers to help reduce
injuries on the job. In additional, trainers may show employees how to lift
items correctly or create training programmes. Besides, the sport trainers will
also receive some pay. It is depends on the education and experience of the
athletic trainer but who work for university or professional sports teams tend
to earn the most.[3]
Every
person of faith knows that his body has been entrusted to his use for a short
time is this earthly life; he is
responsible for caring for it as best he can, so he is careful about his
health. Another reason why people of faith make efforts in his regards is that
physical health is a quality that Allah draws attention to in the quran. For
example, it can be seen in verse 144 of surat al-a’raf in which Allah speaks to
Musa a.s and chooses him to lead the children of israil, that accounts about
him tell of his physical strength. Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Umar: Allah’s apostle
said, ‘surely! Everyone of you is a guardian and is responsible for his
charges: The Imam (ruler) of the people is a guardian and is responsible for
his subjects; a man is the guardian of his family (household) and is
responsible for his subject; a women is the guardian of her husband home and of
his children and is responsible for them; and the slave of a man is a guardian
of his master’s property and is responsible for it. Surely. Everyone of you is
a guardian and responsible for his charges.’[4]
Become
a sports trainer will gives in society. Sports trainer will help to provide
structured programmes that take place in a safe way, fun and focus on athletic
enhancement and personal self-improvement. Society will be in an environment
where they feel safe, trying new skills and movements and experience short term
failure to achieve long term success by challenging their current abilities.
The athletes, especially will feel safe whenever they having any trainings
because the sports trainer will provide a proper medicine, work out
accordingly, and they will also have a workshop for the beginners.[5]
Become
a sports trainer is really fun and interesting where is the world of adventure
that you can enjoy within the profession. They are many ways to encourage
people, one of it are promote about the advantanges of being sports trainer.
Beside, it can be done by promote about the progammes. For example physical fitness
and health programmes. Give briefing more about sports trainer and conduct
various activities so that they know the techniques.[6]
In the
beginning, we are note that islam encourage anything that is pure and
beneficial for man. It encourages a muslim to be strong and to seek the means
of strength, in his hadith, the prophet commands us saying: “teach your
children swimming, archery and horse riding.” This direct call to practice
sports shows the great impotance islam places on sports in training the muslim
and making their bodies healthy and sound. It is no wonder also to hear the
saying: “ A sound mind is in a sound body.”[7]
In
islamic scholars views Dr Abdul Hamid referred to some Islamic concepts that
make a basis for embracing athleticism as a way of life for any muslim. “In
islam , we talk about strength in everything we commands us to have strength in
everthingwe do, not just faith. Sports trainer in islam is the strength for the
body. People ofthen reference a popular phrase in the Islamic tradition that
says: “God is beautiful and he loves beauty,” to inspire muslims to look
themselves, their communities and their mosques.[8]
Sports
trainer is a health care professional who collaborate with physicians to
optimize activity and participation of patients and athletes. To become sports
trainer one must have a degree from an accredited professional level education
program and sit for Board of Certification (BOC)
When
I decided Sports and Exercise Medicine was to be my vocation, I needed to
‘skill up’. Apart from absorption (watching and listening to other’s work),Sports
Medicine Australia (SMA) was able to bridge the education gap in basic clinical
examination – and which still exists today. As one progresses professionally,
you learn that things don’t always automatically go the way you want. There are
people and groups with alternate views. You need help and advice. Someone to
bounce off. Someone to advocate for you. This is SMA’s other great value. While
we generally belong to discipline groups, the broad church of SMA has great
capacity and ability. In Victoria, government has seen SMA as an important
organisation to help deliver it’s programs and policy agendas.The benefits are
not only for our needs, but more importantly, those of the group we set out to
serve when we chose our vocation, the community whether elite sportsperson, the
elderly who walk their dog every day and those in between. I think SMA membership,
any way you look, is great value for money.[9]
There
are working conditions if become a sports trainer. As part of a complete
healthcare team, The certified athletic trainer/ sports trainer works under the
direction of a physician and in cooperation with other healthcare professional,
athletics administrators, coaches and parents. The certified sports trainer
gets to know each patient and can treat injuries more effectively. Athletic
trainers work in variety of different professional including : Professional and
collegiate sports, secondary and intermediate schools, sports medicine clinics,
law enforcement and military, physicians offices.[10]
Dr David Bolzonello
Sports Physician, VIC
Thomas R. Baechle, Roger Earle
-Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning - HUMAN KINETICS PUB INC –
4-6 - 2008
[3] Less Murray and Richard Alegich - So, You Want To Be A Coach - Renniks
Publications – 10 - 2006
[4] Sahih Bukhari – judments (Ahkaam), volume 9 - 251
[6] Less Murray and Richard Alegich - So, You Want To Be A Coach -
Renniks Publications – 56-78 - 2006
[7] http://Themuslimvoice.wrodpress.com/2010/12/18/sports-and-islam/
[8]http://
M.thenational.ae/news/uue-news/education/Islamic-scholars-extols-virtues-of-athletics
[9] http://sma.org.au/members/testimonials/
[10] http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/career/57/athletic_trainer.
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