Athletic Injury Assessment and Management
Curriculum guideline
Effective Date:
Course
Discontinued
No
Course code
SPSC 3276
Descriptive
Athletic Injury Assessment and Management
Department
Sport Science
Faculty
Science & Technology
Credits
3.00
Start date
End term
202120
PLAR
No
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
30
Contact hours
2 hours lecture/classroom
2 hours lab/practical
Method(s) of instruction
Seminar
Tutorial
Learning activities
- Lecture
- Discussion groups
- Practical application
- Self-study via print or online materials
- Reading assignments
- Online discussion groups
- Instructor tutoring
Course description
This course will cover advanced principles and concepts associated with the prevention, recognition and management of common athletic injuries. Students will be asked to demonstrate basic prophylactic and support taping, basic injury assessment techniques including soft tissue stress testing, and make recommendations for appropriate referral and sport re-entry.
Course content
The student will learn:
- The Role / Profession of Athletic Injury Management
- Describe the role of the athletic trainer and allied health professionals involved in the care and prevention of sports injuries
- Describe the components of athletic training programs
- Physiology of Trauma
- Describe the physiology of Shock and Inflammation and recognize signs and symptoms
- Discuss Tissue Repair
- Discuss Tissue Remodeling
- Injury Prevention
- Describe the principles of prevention of athletic injuries
- Describe and demonstrate emergency sports first aid preparation and procedures:
- Recognize Life Threatening and Emergency Situations
- Identify Common Acute and Chronic Injuries including:
- structural locations
- mechanisms
- functional implications
- classification
- recognition
- Perform facility and equipment checks
- Create an Emergency Action Plan
- Describe the application of principles of fitness and training to sport injury prevention
- muscular strength and endurance
- flexibility
- cardiovascular fitness
- warm up and cool down
- overtraining
- Recognize Injury Patterns
- Etiology of Injury
- Describe etiology and pathology of common sports injuries
- Recognize role of biomechanics
- assessment
- recommendations
- Understand basic physiological forces and loads and apply basic physical principles
- Management of injury where applicable for: ankle, foot and lower leg, knee, hip and thigh, lower back and spine, shoulder complex, elbow, wrist, hand, head trauma, skin disorders, environmental injury:
- Describe and demonstrate initial management principles
- Describe and conduct methodical injury evaluation
- Locate functional anatomy
- Perform an assessment of joint stability and Range of Motion
- Describe and demonstrate the application of standard sports aid including:
- RICES principle
- Care of Overuse and Chronic Injury
- Recommend appropriate mode of referral
- Describe the role of therapeutic modalities
- Cryotherapy
- Thermotherapy
- Manual therapy
- Describe appropriate criteria for re-entry to sport
- Plan for re-conditioning exercises
- Describe and demonstrate the use of basic sports aid supplies including padding, tensoring, wrapping and adhesive protection
- Describe and demonstrate the use of Prophylactic Taping
- Recognize biomechanical factors
- Understand and demonstrate procedures
- Understand and demonstrate techniques
- Describe the application of sport performance principles to the management of sports injuries
- Describe technical training techniques
- Describe mental training techniques
- Describe the role of nutrition and drug ingestion within sports injuries
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge with respect to the field of athletic injury management.
- Demonstrate the principles associated with the prevention of athletic injuries.
- Describe and show structural and functional factors associated with common sports injuries.
- Demonstrate assessment and management of athletic injuries.
- Demonstrate an understanding of athletic re-entry principles to allow participant back into the sport following injury, including prophylactic taping and appropriate re-conditioning design.
Means of assessment
The selection of evaluation tools for this course is based on:
- Adherence to college evaluation policy regarding number and weighing of evaluations, for example a course of three credits or more should have at least three separate evaluations.
- A developmental approach to evaluation that is sequenced and progressive.
- Evaluation is used as a teaching tool for both students and instructors.
- Commitment to student participation in evaluation through such processes as self and peer evaluation, and program/ instructor evaluation.
The following is presented as an example assessment format for this course
| Practical Application Projects (3) | 30% |
| Mid-term exam | 20% |
| Final exam | 25% |
| Practical exam | 15% |
| Preparation and participation | 10% |
| 100% |
Textbook materials
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students
Will be decided by course instructors. Potential resources include:
- Anderson, M.K., et al. (2004) Foundations of Athletic Training 3rd Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, USA
Certifications/Conference requirements:
As part of the course, instructors and students may engage in extra-curricular certification processes that overlap with the curriculum of the class. Fees for professional certification, where applicable, will be borne by the student. Potential certifications relating to this course include:
- Sport Medicine Council of B.C. Sports First Aid Certification $25
- First Aid / CPR training - $50