Resources for Legislators
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Who is the NATA?
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) is a not-for-profit
organization dedicated to advancing, encouraging and improving
the athletic training profession. NATA represents and supports the
30,000 members of the athletic training profession through public
awareness, education and research. Certified athletic trainers are
allied health care professionals who specialize in the prevention,
assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries and illnesses—in sports settings, performing arts, corporations, the military,
schools, clinics and hospitals, physician offices and other health
care facilities.
NATA's Mission
The mission of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association is to enhance the quality of health care provided by certified athletic trainers and to advance the athletic training profession.
Who are athletic trainers?
Health and Sports
- Life cycle of the athlete
- Youth Sports
- Baby boomers
- Resources for seniors
- Automated external defibrillators
- Commotio cordis
- Communicable and Infectious Diseases in Secondary School Sports
- Community-acquired MRSA infections
- Full-time, on-site athletic trainer coverage for secondary school athletic programs
- Steroids and performance enhancing substances
- Use of qualified athletic trainers in secondary schools
- Youth football and heat related illness
Federal Issues
- Medicare Access to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Services Improvement Action of 2007
- Legislation and initiatives supported by NATA
- Medicaid Program: Coverage for Rehabilitative Services Proposed Rule CMS 2261-P, Oct. 12, 2007
- NATA comments on Therapy Standards and Requirements, and Physician Self-Referral Provisions, Aug. 30, 2007
- NATA Comments to CMS on Wound Care Services, Sept. 14, 2007
- PLAY Every Day Act (H.R. 2045)
- Medicare Therapy Caps and Refined and Alternative Payment Metholodiges, CMA Comment Letter, July 11, 2007
- Citizens’ Health Care Working Group comment letter
- Physical activity guidelines letter
State Issues


