My research site is going to be the athletic training room in the Tinsley center. What I know about the people that are involved and work in the trainers room is that they all have a passion for sports. This field of work focuses on sport related injuries and rehablilitation. The trainers have an extremely high knowledge base about the human body and how it works. This knowledge is used when they are trying to asses a particular injury. The athletes themselves are very diverse and come from many different backrounds. They are all from the same community of Bridgewater student-athletes, but yet they are bound to the close families that are their teammates and their sport itself.
While there are many aspects of the athletic training room that seem to be blatenly obvious, I still have many questions. Do the trainers themselves come from a sports related backround? What kinds of medicine (if any) have they been involved in before? Do any of them have families and how does that change the way they work? How do friends who may be teammates during one season and not during another season treat each other? Is there any heirarchy to the training room, meaning, does one team get special preference over another? I think that many more questions will appear as I continue with my research.
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