Tag: burnout

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Avoiding burnout

Burnout occurs in all careers. Burnout tends to occur the most in medical careers; working long hours and weekends and having a stressful job. Athletic trainers have to be flexible with their schedule, having practices at different time, different days, and games taking longer than expected. Burnout is defined as a syndrome of emotional, physical, […]

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too much, too young

Far gone are the days when children played games solely for the fun of it. Today’s pediatric and adolescents have much higher pressure placed on them by parents and society. In order to meet the expectations of today’s society, it has been much more prevalent to see the young single sport athlete. Although playing basketball […]