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hearing before, so I'm not as maybe prepared legislative,
however, I do come with comments about the memo that was
put out in December of 2019 between MATS and the MPTA,
which basically has affected the athletic training
profession in the State of Michigan with regards to
working in the physical therapy setting. Directly
related under the direct supervision of a license or an
unlicensed individual, based off of that memo, it was
placed that now in a physical therapy setting, an
athletic trainer is deemed unlicensed and is therefore
basically looked as a glorified tech, which I take
offense to after 23 years of a profession of successfully
running a therapy clinic. Now the ax has fell on me and
my profession has allowed me to not work in the physical
therapy setting, no longer am I working because my
employer is scared as what would be interpreted for an
athletic trainer to treat patients. As much as I've done
it for the last 23, me, as well as other athletic
trainers in the clinics, have lost their jobs and thus
are forced to find something else when really all we want
to do is continue to help patients successfully in the
clinic, in the outpatient clinical setting
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orthopedically. And I wanted to arrive today to at least
present my comments with regards to that; and if there
was a way that the legislature and wording could be
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