Rural Schools, Medical Facilities Partner for Athletic Training Services

Athletic trainer Jodie Smith has logged more than 2,500 miles in a single month, traveling between eight schools in and around Billings, Mont. Seven of those schools are K-12 facilities, with the number of high school students at each one ranging from 21 to almost 300. ...

Athletic trainer Jodie Smith has logged more than 2,500 miles in a single month, traveling between eight schools in and around Billings, Mont. Seven of those schools are K-12 facilities, with the number of high school students at each one ranging from 21 to almost 300. Sometimes, Smith only sees injured student-athletes once every two weeks, examining them and prescribing rehabilitation exercises from the side of a gymnasium stage, a bench in a hallway or a corner in the library. She even borrows the principal's office when she can. And at one school, the nearest AED is inside the fire station down the street.

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