YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN ATHLETIC TRAINER WHEN...
1) You can sleep 101 different ways on a bus.
2) You have all the needed items in your apartment to tape an ankle.
3) You know people by their injury, not their names.
4) You have a pile of gauze and gloves on top of your dresser at home.
5) You believe the athletic training room should be equipped with an ibuprofen salt lick.
6) You think shallow gene pool should have its own box to check on an injury report form.
7) When one of your athletes or a coach asks if you even went home the night before.
8) You want to slap the next person that says, "Must be nice having all those holidays, spring break, and summers off?"
9) Nasty feet don't even phase you.
10) You think caffeine should be available in IV form.
11) You've ever had your profession slammed by someone who wouldn't dream of doing your job.
12) You analyze other people's gait patterns while walking around.
13) You want to choke a person that says, "Oh, you must have so much fun being around sports every day."
14) You cook beefaroni on the same hot plate to mold mouth guards.
15) You think midnight is a reasonable time for chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and iced tea.
16) You get pissed off at the sportscasters when they say..."I think he strained his ankle".
17) Your friends/family come to you to see if you think they should go to the doctor when they hurt themselves.
18) When the athletic training room has become your workspace, bedroom, changing area, dinning area.
19) When you can spot Osgood-Schlatter's from a mile away.
20) You realize that skin lube is the best chapstick known to man.
21) You have made more than one trip to the hospital carrying an athlete in the back of the truck
Haha...I know there are ALOT of these I can relate to??? How about you guys?!
- Alison L Moore MS, LAT, ATC
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