Professional Practice

Out of the Lab and Into the Field: A Case for Practice-based Research in Athletic Training

Timothy A. McGuine, PhD, ATC

  • Athletic Training and Sports Health Care
  • March/April 2012 - Volume 4 · Issue 2: 55-57
  • DOI: 10.3928/19425864-20120224-03
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Abstract

In athletic training, research seems to be focused on laboratory studies rather than injury trials with athletes in actual sport settings. Practicing athletic trainers need to collaborate with traditional laboratory researchers and methods experts to make such studies a reality.

AUTHORS

Dr McGuine is from the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

The author has no financial or proprietary interest in the materials presented herein.

Address correspondence to Timothy A. McGuine, PhD, ATC, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Health Sports Medicine Center, 621 Science Drive, Madison, WI 53711; e-mail: tmcguine@uwhealth.org

doi: 10.3928/19425864-20120224-03

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