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What you'll learn
at NATA 2023

NATA 2023 features curated educational programming, bringing together experts from athletic training and various health care professions to deliver a focused and practical learning experience that will enhance the way you care for your patients.

2023 Key Program Themes

While there will be a wide variety of topics presented on in Indianapolis, the NATA Convention Program Committee has identified two key themes for NATA 2023:

Data-Driven Practice

This theme is focused on strategies for using data to guide patient care and improve health outcomes.

Optimizing Return to Work, Life and Sport

This theme is focused on providing clinicians with the best available evidence to support decision-making related to returning to work, life and sport.

Hands-on and interactive learning sessions include:

Working With Deaf and Hard of Hearing Athletes: What You Need to Know
Mobilization and Reduction Techniques in AT
The Upper Extremity Return-to-Activity Dilemma: What Assessments and Tests Help Guide Clinician Decision-Making?
Using Data To Advance Injury Screening and Rehabilitation: Integrating Two-Dimensional Biomechanics into Clinical Practice
Management of Dislocations
The First Minute: An Evidence-Based Strategy To Approaching the Collapsed Athlete
Exercise Your Pain Away: Relax the Body and Alter Pain Perception
I’ve Got Your Back: Prevention of Lower Back Pain in the Workplace and Athletics
Airway Management in an Equipment-Laden Athlete
Advanced Manual Therapy of the Hip

Learning Formats and CEUs

During the in-person 74th NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo, you will have the opportunity to earn up to 20 CEUs.

You will have the opportunity to choose from among multiple sessions including lectures, interactive lectures during which presenters will engage attendees by including videos, demonstrations, small group discussion and/or interactive polling during the session. 

Multiple learning labs will be offered allowing attendees to participate in hands-on, practical experiences. Free Communications Oral Sessions allow for quick chunks of learning to happen with 6 minute presentations.

And, onsite posters will return to convention along with the chance to chat with poster presenters. The posters allow the opportunity to learn about the latest in athletic training research.

Convention is your chance to engage face-to-face with your peers, speakers, researchers and thought leaders. In-person attendees will also be able to watch select content on-demand. Attendees will be able to earn up to 20 CEUs based on what they attend at convention combined with their viewing of on-demand content.

For those who cannot make it to Indianapolis, you will be able to view select on-demand content as well as to view posters. For NATA 2023 On-Demand registrants, you will be able to view sessions and earn up to 20 CEUs.

Format
Length
# of Speakers
Max Attendance
Type
Add’l Fees/CEUs
Advanced Track Seminars
4 or 6 hours
1-5
100
Lecture & Lab; Case Studies
Yes/4 or 6 CEUs
Lectures
55 minutes
1-2
Room Capacity
Lecture
No
Interactive Lectures
55 minutes
1-2
Room Capacity
Lecture
No
Learning Labs
2 hours
1
150
Lecture & Lab
No
Forums
55 minutes
1-3
Room Capacity
Lecture & Facilitated Discussion
No
Free Communications – Oral
6 minutes
Up to 6
Room Capacity
Lecture
No
Free Communications – Poster
N/A
Varies
Poster
No

Statements of Credit

NATA provides statements of credit post-event. An email will be sent to all attendees eligible for CEUs, with instructions on how to access and print their statement of credit. It is the attendee’s responsibility to confirm it is accurate. It is also the attendee’s responsibility to report hours actually spent in the educational programming.


If you have a question about your statement, email ki@nata.org.

Questions?