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Athletic Trainers play a key role in the care of athletes as part of the sports medicine team with a ride range of duties and responsibilities.
Coaching, a Central Concept in Sport Sciences? Comparative and Differentiated Cultural Investigation into its Evolution and its Current and Future Application. By Jean-François Loudcher. Pages 7 to 23. Full-text article. Abstract. Bibliography. Authors. PDF. Version française. Versión en español. 1 – Introduction.
Abstract. Similar to elite athletes, surgeons use their skills on a daily basis but coaching for skillset refinement is not common among surgeons. Surgeon coaching has been proposed a method by which surgeons can gain insight into their performance and optimize their practice.
Health (injury, illness and prevention) is managed by specialist sports medicine physicians (led by the CMO/Medical Director); coaching is managed by the Head Coach. Both departments are managed by the Performance Director or (CEO) depending on the structure and size/culture of the organisation/club.
Finding appropriate and effective coaches would seem to be an obstacle to establishing a successful sports medicine coach program. Expert sports medicine surgeons have their own careers and taking time away from practice is costly and onerous.
Discuss how fitness professionals, including personal fitness trainers and strength and conditioning coaches, relate to the sports medicine team. Describe the role of an individual supervising a recreational program in athletic injury management.
Lepre-Nolan and Houde focus on coaching as a powerful process for developing leadership skills. Hull and colleagues provide specific insight on how coaching can effectively improve medicine and health care through enhanced leadership.
