How is athletic training different than sports medicine?
Sports medicine is a very broad term. The American College of Sports Medicine defines sports medicine as multidisciplinary, including the physiological, biomechanical, psychological, and pathological phenomena associated with exercise and sports. It involves any profession or field of study that is dedicated to physical activity and sport either through performance enhancement or through injury care and management. Examples include, but are not limited to, athletic training, physical therapy, sports nutrition, medicine, sport psychology, exercise physiology, biomechanics, sports massage, sports dentistry, orthotists/prosthetists, chiropractic, and strength and conditioning. The uniqueness of athletic training is that it combines all of these practices to work exclusively with individuals who are physically active.
