Description: Athletic trainer Sonnie Neiman spends her school year taping ankles and covering games in Hulett Wyoming, but the Fourth of July finds her behind the chutes at the Black Hills Roundup. She explains what athletic trainers actually do, how Monument Health places her in the community as a contracted trainer and why rodeo athletes will take gobs of tape just to get through eight seconds. Sonnie walks through the injuries that surprise people, from rope burns to ACL tears, and the ones that look like any other sport. It's a close-up on the crew keeping cowboys and cowgirls in the arena.
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