PEH 287: Athletic Training

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Class Program

Exercise Science

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091873

Meets Degree Requirements For

General Elective

Description

An introductory course to the field of athletic training. Topics discussed will include professional standards, risk management, employment settings, and prevention and care of common athletic injuries. Emphasis is placed on mechanisms, treatment, and preventive taping of common sports injuries.

Grading Basis

Graded

Course Learning Outcomes

Identify the athletic trainer’s role and the different setting in which a Certified Athletic (ATC) Trainer can be employed.

Understand the six domains of the athletic training profession.

Describe the educational path in which a student must take to become a certified athletic trainer.

Show competency in performing most common athletic taping techniques to prevent further athletic injury.

Locate anatomical structures and be able to describe typical mechanisms of sports and environmental injuries.

Demonstrate basic knowledge of assessing common athletic injuries using HOPS.

Understand therapeutic modalities and their use in treating athletic injuries.

Core Topics

The certified athletic trainer’s role as a health care provider in various settings.
Six Domains of the athletic training profession.
Risk management in varied athletic settings.
Identify physical and environmental risk factors of sports injures.
Upper and Lower extremity injuries identification and evaluation.
Protective taping and bracing for common athletic injures.
Understanding the components of injury assessment and HOPS
Basic therapeutic modalities and their use in treating athletic injuries.