Week 4: Idaho state at UC Davis After doing some reading, it appears to be more of an issue with how the athletic department/team wants to disclose things. So part of it is the “keep the opponent guessing”, but as for reporting it seems the consensus approach is to keep it general, e.g., lower or upper body injury (I’ve heard that just recently while watching a game) with no detailed diagnosis/prognosis. The trainers need information from the doctors in order to treat athletes, and the coaches have to be in the know for personnel reasons and if they need to limit participation. The HIPPA part would be obtaining information from the health provider as I understand. Apparently players sign waivers so that information can flow from doctors to trainers, etc. So I think it has to do as much or more with the changing approach/norms of athletic departments and universities with being less open/detailed as HIPPA constraints which more directly relates to release of information from the health provider. I’ll ask my daughter-she’s a PA.