Definitions

2. As used in this act: “Advisory committee” means the Athletic Training Advisory Committee established in section 5 of P.L.1984, c.203 (C.45:9-37.39); (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2025, c.151) “Athletic trainer” means a person who practices athletic training; “Athletic training” means and includes, but is not limited to: the treatment of a physically active person for injury prevention and health management; the athletic training evaluation and assessment of a physically active person for an injury or illness, or both; and the rehabilitation and reconditioning of a physically active person’s injury or illness, or both, as recommended by the advisory committee and defined in regulations by the board. Athletic training shall also include the application of physical treatment modalities to physically active persons under a plan of care designed and overseen by a physician licensed in this State, as recommended by the advisory committee and defined in regulations by the board. “Athletic training” shall not include the prescription of controlled dangerous substances; “Board” means the State Board of Medical Examiners; “Illness” means any disease, disorder, sickness, or affliction that arises from or is a manifestation of a physically active person's participation in an individual or team sport, athletic competition, performing art, recreational activity, employment activity, military exercise, or any other condition that may require immediate intervention by an athletic trainer, acting with the consent and under the supervision of a physician licensed in this State during, prior to, or following the physically active person's participation in the individual or team sport, athletic competition, performing art, recreational activity, employment activity, or military exercise. “Illness” shall include, but be not limited to, the emergent and acute manifestations of exertion related illness, including an affliction of the physically active person’s cardiorespiratory, thermoregulation, musculoskeletal, neurovascular, or endocrine system. “Illness” shall not include any disease, disorder, sickness, or affliction of a physically active person in which the treatment is beyond the scope of practice, education, or training of an athletic trainer. Intervention by an athletic trainer due to a physically active person’s participation in an employment activity shall be limited to rendering advice and consultation on matters of plant health and the provision of first aid services pursuant to federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards established for medical and first aid services at 29 C.F.R. s.1910.151. “Physically active person” means an individual who participates in any of the following: (1) an individual or team sport; (2) an athletic competition; (3) a performing art; (4) a recreational activity; (5) an employment activity; or (6) a military exercise. “Supervision” means that a physician licensed in this State is accessible to an athletic trainer, either on-site, by voice, or electronic communication, during athletic training.