Athletic Trainer

Administrative Code (Code Book)

An athletic trainer is an individual who engages in athletic training.

Athletic training means preventing, recognizing and evaluating athletic injuries, managing and administering the initial treatment of athletic injuries, giving emergency care or first aid for an athletic injury, and rehabilitating and physically reconditioning athletic injuries.

Except as provided under s. 448.952 , no person may designate himself or herself as an athletic trainer or use or assume the title "athletic trainer", "licensed athletic trainer", "certified athletic trainer", or "registered athletic trainer" or append to the person's name any other title, letters or designation that represents or may tend to represent the person as an athletic trainer, without a license from the credentialing board.