As your source of lifelong learning, NATA EducATe provides users with an extensive educational library, a customizable experience, the ability to interact with peers and more.
New courses are constantly being added to the platform to ensure you have the knowledge needed to stay up to date in your practice – as well as earn CEUs.
Enhanced access to the entire NATA EducATe On-Demand Course Catalog is also now available to NATA members, so take advantage of these courses.
Here are the new courses released in February. Visit NATA EducATe for more information on these and other courses available at your fingertips.
Gender Equity: Strategies & Tools To Level the Playing Field
By Marjorie Albohm, MS, AT Ret., and Rebecca Lopez, PhD, LAT, FNATA
This course aims to identify the underlying mechanisms of gender inequity and list the ways to identify gender inequity in the workplace. It also aims to assist ATs in developing an effective plan to address gender inequity in their individual workplace. Additionally, its objective is to identify how gender equity enhances patient care and how to create a plan to collaborate with other health care professionals/societies to address/create gender equity policy statements.
Developing a Therapeutic Exercise Program for Mechanical Low Back Pain: Examining the Evidence and Crafting Appropriate Progressions
By Kenneth Cieslak, DC, ATC, CSCS
The objective of this course is to recognize the most common low back pain diagnoses, their sign and symptom patterns and objective findings common to each. It also aims to examine literature to determine the efficacy of applying the most recent clinical prediction rules for determining an appropriate treatment strategy. It serves to examine literature as it applies to rehabilitation concepts, such as motor control programs, strengthening protocols, proprioceptive strategies and manual therapy approaches, and discuss their relative value and limitations in an effective treatment program. The role of movement screens, their potential role in the diagnostic process and potential pitfalls are also discussed. The course also explores several popular exercise approaches, reviewing and practicing some sample progressions for each.
Workers' Compensation, the Traditional Sports Med Model and the AT: Working Together To Improve Patient Care and ROI
By Tiffany McGuffin, MS, LAT, ATC
This course aims to illustrate basic workers' compensation terms and limitations for providers and evaluate the role the athletic trainer can play in the confines of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and workers' compensation. Gaps in the injury process for workers and ways the AT can improve patient experience and outcomes will also be discussed.
Mental Health and Resiliency for Health Care Providers
By taking this course, attendees will be able to analyze the stressors that affect health care providers, recognize skills that may improve mental resiliency and develop skills to improve physical and mental resiliency. The course also enables them to develop understanding of how physical and mental resiliency are related.
