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Like sports? Athletic trainers are certified professionals who collaborate with physicians to prevent, diagnose, and rehabilitate sports-injuries.

Athletic trainers are specialize in emergency treatments for life-threatening and non-life-threatening injuries like head trauma, heart attack, spinal cord injuries, asthma, and seizures before patients can be taken to a hospital. Most importantly, athletic trainers help athletes prevent injury and re-injury through exercise, nutrition, and manipulative treatments.

Special thanks to the National Athletic Trainers' Association for producing the video.

Speech-language pathologists (SLP’s), who are sometimes called speech therapists, provide a wide range of care to individuals with communication problems and their families.

Many SLP’s work in schools and primarily focus on speech and language difficulty and others work in clinical settings, focusing on swallowing disorders in addition to communication problems.

Speech-language pathologists teach patients how to improve their speech rhythm, speech pitch or volume, strengthen swallowing and speech muscles, and increase reading and writing skills. Speech-language pathologists require a master’s degree.