California Lags in Regulating Athletic Trainers

The following is from an article published in Athletic Management
By Michael Popke 
September 2011

“…  ”You can come here to California, call yourself an athletic trainer and do athletic training services and things other professionals do, and you don’t have to be certified,” says West, who has been at the forefront of multiple efforts in his state to require licensure for athletic trainers ­— including the Athletic Trainers Practice Act, a pending bill that would provide for the licensure and regulation of athletic trainers and prohibit anyone without proper credentials from engaging in the practice of athletic training. “Worse, out-of-state individuals who were not able to obtain licensure, or who lost their licensure, can come to California and practice. Any school can hire anybody to manage the healthcare of their student-athletes.”

Nowhere is regulation of the profession more crucial than at the high school level….”

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