2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 8 - The Professions › Article 162 - Athletic Trainers › 8351 - Definition.

* § 8351. Definition. As used in this article "athletic trainer" means
  any  person  who  is  duly  certified in accordance with this article to
  perform athletic training under  the  supervision  of  a  physician  and
  limits  his  or  her  practice  to  secondary  schools,  institutions of
  postsecondary  education,  professional  athletic  organizations,  or  a
  person who, under the supervision of a physician, carries out comparable
  functions   on  orthopedic  athletic  injuries,  excluding  spinal  cord
  injuries, in a health care  organization.  Supervision  of  an  athletic
  trainer by a physician shall be continuous but shall not be construed as
  requiring the physical presence of the supervising physician at the time
  and place where such services are performed.
The  scope  of  work  described  herein  shall  not  be  construed  as
  authorizing the reconditioning of  neurologic  injuries,  conditions  or
  disease.
* NB Effective until December 22, 2025
* § 8351. Definition.  1.  As  used in this article "athletic trainer"
  means any person who is duly licensed in accordance with this article to
  perform athletic training under  the  supervision  of  a  physician  and
  limits  his  or  her  practice  to  secondary  schools,  institutions of
  postsecondary education, professional  athletic  organizations,  amateur
  athletic   organizations,   non-profit   athletic  organizations,  dance
  organizations, military academies and facilities of the  United  States,
  fire  training  programs  or  academies, and police training schools and
  academies. An athletic trainer may also,  under  the  supervision  of  a
  physician  in  a  health  care  organization  or  a  physician's private
  practice,  carry  out  comparable  functions  on   orthopedic   athletic
  injuries.
2.  Supervision  of  an  athletic  trainer  by  a  physician  shall be
  continuous but shall not be construed as requiring the physical presence
  of the supervising physician at the time and place where  such  services
  are  performed,  provided however, that such supervision shall include a
  signed written agreement or protocol created collaboratively between the
  supervising  physician  and  licensed  athletic  trainer.  The   written
  agreement or protocol shall address and describe the nature and scope of
  athletic  training  services  to  be performed by such licensed athletic
  trainer, in accordance  with  this  title.  Such  written  agreement  or
  protocol  shall  be  reviewed  at  least  once a year by the supervising
  physician and athletic trainer and revised if  necessary.  No  physician
  shall  supervise  more  than  four  athletic  trainers, except that such
  limitation shall not apply for athletic trainers practicing in secondary
  schools, and institutions of postsecondary education, who are practicing
  under the supervision of a physician who serves as the medical  director
  for such school or institution.
3.  An  athletic  trainer  shall  make a written or oral referral to a
  physician of any individual being treated  for  an  orthopedic  athletic
  injury  whose  symptoms have not improved for a period of four days from
  the day of onset. An  individual  treated  for  an  orthopedic  athletic
  injury  by  an  athletic  trainer  in  a  healthcare  organization  or a
  physician's private practice  shall  receive  a  medical  evaluation  or
  reevaluation if treatment by the athletic trainer exceeds two weeks.
4.  The scope of work described in this section shall not be construed
  as authorizing the management  and  treatment  of  acute,  subacute,  or
  chronic  neurological  pathologies  and  comorbidities  or  neurological
  disease processes. Athletic trainers may, however,  perform  an  initial
  evaluation  and  triage  of  emergent  neurological  conditions  such as
  potential concussions, spinal  cord  injuries  or  nerve  injuries  that
  result   from   engagement  in  athletic  activity,  and  following  the
  individual's  clearance  by  the  supervising  physician,  the  athletic

  trainer  may  work  with  the  individual pursuant to the signed written
  agreement or protocol to  manage,  monitor  and  treat  concussions  and
  peripheral nerve injuries in such settings as part of the rehabilitation
  to return to athletic activity subject to the limitations of subdivision
  one of this section.
* NB Effective December 22, 2025