Recognizing the Research Participants Behind the Numbers: Every Line of Data is a Story

摘要

Athletic training is a health care field that focuses on the care of patients and athletes across the lifespan. Human interaction, and specifically the rapport between athletic trainers (ATs) and their patients, is critical in this clinical paradigm. As the field of athletic training continues to expand its research space by emphasizing practice-based and clinical research, it is important to retain the element of human connection that is inherent to the field through relationships among researchers, clinicians, and patients.