HIGH SCHOOL TRAINERS PROGRAM -
sponsored by N.A.T.A.

The High School Trainers Plan sponsored by tho National
Athletic Trainers! Association through it's new Trainers!
Journal is directed to the four representatives of grades
9-12 to be selccted by the coach for thc purpose of prevent~
ing injury and safe guarding the general health of athletes,
permitting sports to make its fullest contribution to the
development of our young men with the least possible hurt.
In the longer range view the plan with your co-oporation can
set up &@ veritable fifth columm of physical fitness.

More specifically it can materially aid the coach in his
work at no additional moncy cost and at a vast reduction in
actual cost in torms of prevention. Incidently it may open
up a completely new field of endeavour to students who may
wish to continue along that linc and for whom ultimately we
expect to have a course for college credite

The training lessons will be taken from the pages of the
Trainers! Journal and will be studied under the dircction of
the team medical supervisor. Bricfly the serics of studies
will include,

1. Diet--Excrcises--Protcctive gear for ankles,
knees, shoulders, hips, wrists, etc.; every
known type of bandasing--Body structure--
treatment of injurics--Hy-dro therapy--Etectro
therapy equipment, for overy sport,

These studies will not necessarily be in tho order named but
in an order designed to sustain the interest of tho students
by actually putting bandage into their hands and allowing them
to go to work, With this idea in mind, we enthusiastically
and. rovorently submit for our first study-The ankle. You!fll
be onthusiastic, too, when you've worked with bandage a while
and see the rcsults obtainable by skillful usc of it, and
youtll considcr this tomperamcntal joint revcrontly, too,

when consider that your most valuabl athlete is no stronger
han his ankles.

Your student trainers will find as they study cach lesson from
one month to another that they have been assigned a vory im-
portant job. They will be the watch dog of the athictic tcams
they serve uncer your's and the mecical supervisor's supcr-=
Visions It will be their duty to study each athleto to find
out what type of cxercise is best suited to that particular
boy. They will check each student in an out cach day on the
weight chart., a simple task but one that will tcll the coaches
the story-as to whcother the athlete is setting too much ox-
ercise or too.littlc, onough slecp or enough food. Tho weight
chart is: fundamental like the sterlizing of a surgeons in-
struments, It is just one of the trainer's many helpful tasks.
Their job will nevcr ond as they will bo callcd upon to visit
the injured athletc in his home or quarters if he isin need of

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