Athletic Trainers

         An oral and written communication I observed being used was in a kind of physical for hurt athletes. Whenever an athlete came in with pain in their knee, the athletic trainer would give them simple tasks. For example they would go through simple things such as touching their toes, movement of their head, squats, movement of the back and their rotation. The results of the test gave a totally different solution to the pain to what the athletes expected. Some athletes would come in with back pain and it resulted to be neck or even knee problems. The reason for this was because the muscles are connected and because one muscle is not use to a movement it can cause another problem. After being written down what the athletes disabilities were they would break it down into exercise that they would repeat until able to "touch their toes" or "rotate" the proper way.Sometimes fixing one thing , other problems would get resolved by simple just doing one thing. Before continuing with the long week or weeks or these exercises the athlete trainer had to insert it into the computer so that the athletes trainer would have access to what their athlete was doing or had.