LibGuides: Athletic Training: Research Databases

Top Athletic Training and Sports Medicine Research Databases

SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
SPORTDiscus is a database focused on sports medicine including orthopedics, coaching and education, consumer health, exercise science and fitness, health education, kinesiology, nutrition, occupational health and safety, physical education, physical therapy, and the sports sciences.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
CINAHL is a comprehensive research database that provides the best coverage for allied health literature.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
As the world's largest biomedical database, PubMed is a great resource for any medical or clinical research.
Linked to ATSU's full-text subscription journals when access via this link. Includes access to PubMed Central, which is fulltext and open access.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
A large and comprehensive interdisciplinary database. Scopus is great for broad searches and for topics that have an interdisciplinary lens.
NARIC Knowledgebase This link opens in a new window
This knowledgebase from the National Rehabilitation Information Center provides a wide range of resources from organizations and government agencies related to rehabilitation.
REHABDATA This link opens in a new window
Abstracts for over 200,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities.
SportRxiv This link opens in a new window
SportRxiv is an online repository of article preprints in sport, exercise, performance, and health research.

Kinesiology and Athletic Training, Sports Medicine

Top Education Research Databases

Education Source This link opens in a new window
As the world's largest educational database, Education Source is a must-use resource for any research related to education.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Sponsored by the United States Department of Education, ERIC is a vital resource for educational research.
Education Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index to key areas of education and related fields for more than 1,000 periodicals and yearbooks. Content areas include educational specialties, funding, adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, school administration, teacher evaluation, and teaching methods.

Professional Organizations

National Athletic Trainers’ Association
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) is the professional membership association for certified athletic trainers and others who support the athletic training profession. Founded in 1950, the NATA has grown to more than 43,000 members worldwide today. The majority of certified athletic trainers choose to be members of NATA to support their profession and to receive a broad array of membership benefits.
World Federation of Athletic Training & Therapy
The World Federation of Athletic Training and Therapy (WFATT) is a coalition of health care professionals in the fields of sport, exercise, injury/illness prevention and treatment. The primary objective of the WFATT is to promote the highest quality of health care and functional activity through the collaborative efforts of its members.
Arizona Athletic Trainers’ Association
The Arizona Athletic Trainers’ Association (AzATA) is a not-for-profit 501(c)6 professional membership association for certified and licensed athletic trainers, and others, who support the athletic training profession in the State of Arizona.
Board of Athletic Training State of Arizona
The Arizona Board of Athletic Training was established by the Arizona Legislature in 2000 to regulate this profession. As such, the Board issues and renews licenses for the athletic training profession based on the applicant meeting established standards of experience and competency.

National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association
The NBATA is comprised of the fifty seven dedicated athletic trainers servicing the organizations of the National Basketball Association
Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society
The mission of the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS) is to serve as an educational resource for the Major League and Minor League Baseball athletic trainers. PBATS serves its members by providing for the continued education of the athletic trainer as it relates to the profession, helping to improve their understanding of sports medicine so as to better promote the health of the constituency— professional baseball players.
Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society
The mission of PFATS is to serve the players of the NFL, the member clubs, and other members of the community. Their purpose is to ensure that the highest quality of health care is provided to the National Football League. We are dedicated to the welfare of our members and committed to the promotion and advancement of athletic training through education and research.

American Board of Sport Psychology
The American Board of Sport Psychology was founded in 2000. Its mission is to advance practice, education and training standards in the field of applied sport psychology and provide licensed psychologists and allied state certified/licensed human services practitioners the opportunity to achieve education and training and attain competencies and board certification in sport psychology.
American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
ACRM is a global community of both researchers and consumers of research, in the field of rehabilitation. ACRM is the only professional association representing all members of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team, including researchers, physicians, clinicians, nurses, counselors, case managers, biomedical engineers and more.
The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM)
The mission of AOSSM is to be the premier global, sports medicine organization representing the interests of orthopaedic surgeons and other professionals who provide comprehensive health services for the care of athletes and active people of all ages and abilities.
American Sports Medicine Institute
The mission of ASMI is to improve the understanding, prevention and treatment of sports-related injuries through research and education.
Association for Applied Sport Psychology
AASP is the premier association that ensures every performer has the resources to strengthen their inner edge through the advancement and application of excellence in mental performance and mental health.
National Safety Council
NSC starts in the workplace, giving companies resources workers can actually use around risks they are actually facing. NSC helps employers create a culture of safety that will make people safer -- from the workpace to anyplace.