The Iowa Athletic Trainers Society is composed of highly skilled health care professionals who are nationally certified and state licensed. Through research, education and service IATS works to advance, encourage, and improve the profession of athletic training and promote sports health and safety.
Athletic training is practiced by athletic trainers, health care professionals who collaborate with physicians to optimize activity and participation of patients and clients. Athletic training encompasses the prevention, diagnosis, and intervention of emergency, acute, and chronic medical conditions involving impairment, functional limitations, and disabilities. Athletic trainers in Iowa must have passed the Board of Certification national examination and be licensed by the Iowa Department of Public Health to legally practice in Iowa.
Answers to frequently asked questions about athletic training.
Licensed/Certified Athletic Trainers are employed almost anywhere people are physically active. Businesses and organizations other than athletic teams have realized the value of employing athletic trainers in assisting them with the medical needs of their employees, clients, and patients. Athletic trainers can be found not only with professional sports teams, colleges and universities, and secondary schools, but also in hospitals, clinics, physician's offices, and sports medicine clinics, the military and law enforcement, industrial and commercial businesses, and the performing arts.