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in their spare time for fun. Keith Steigbigel sees the emphasis
on staying physically active to continue, so physical therapists
will have plenty of work treating injuries. In sports psychology,
Dr. Sean Richardson told the Careers in Psychology Web site
that psychologists learn ways to help all sorts of people improve
their performance. He said, “There are a lot of people that want
to be the best at something that is not about sports.” Those skills
provide job opportunities in the business world to balance with
working with athletes.
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Text-Dependent Questions
1.
Name one of the major subjects that sports medicine students will
probably study in college.
2.
Based on the stats in this chapter, is it easy or hard to fight competition
to get into medical school?
3.
What type of sports medicine expert works with an athlete on mental
health issues?
Research Project
Find out who the sports medicine professionals are at your school and
ask them how they got their jobs. At what colleges did they study? What
subjects did they cover? Did they ever have internships?