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| 1. Description - |
| Hands-on experience in athletic emergency care, athletic injury prevention, therapeutic treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries in the on-campus Athletic Treatment Center. Observation of orthopedic surgical procedures with the permission of the team physician is available.
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| Prerequisites: PHED 62A
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| Co-requisite: None
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| Advisory: Not open to students with credit in H P 52A.
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| 2. Course Objectives - |
| The student will be able to:
- Demonstrate equipment and bracing skills
- Demonstrate basic first aid skills
- Demonstrate manual therapy techniques
- Demonstrate and understand use of therapeutic modalities
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| 3. Special Facilities and/or Equipment - |
| None required.
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| 4. Course Content (Body of knowledge) - |
| Instructor discussion and demonstration will teach:
- Equipment and Bracing Skills
- Football helmet fitting
- Football equipment fitting
- Orthoplast pad design and application
- Donut pad design and use
- Ankle bracing
- Knee bracing
- Shoulder bracing
- Elbow bracing
- Wrist and thumb bracing
- Basic First Aid Skills
- CPR certification
- First aid certification
- Wound care
- Heat illness care knowledge
- Crutch use
- Ability to measure blood pressure
- Manual Therapy
- Stroking, petrissage, tapotement massage techniques
- Cross-friction massage techniques
- Effleurage massage techniques
- Therapeutic Modalities
- Cryotherapy
- Thermotherapy
- Hydrotherapy
- Electrical stimulation
- Ultrasound
- Light therapy
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| 5. Repeatability - Moved to header area. |
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| 6. Methods of Evaluation - |
| - Physical skills and performance will be evaluation by direct instructor observation.
- Skill understanding will be evaluated through written explanation.
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| 7. Representative Text(s) - |
| Prentice, William E. Arnheim's Principles of Athletic Training. 14th Edition, Boston, MA, McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2011.
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| 8. Disciplines - |
| Physical Education
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| 9. Method of Instruction - |
| Lecture, demonstration and laboratory.
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| 10. Lab Content - |
| - Equipment and Bracing Skills
- Football helmet fitting
- Football equipment fitting
- Orthoplast pad design and application
- Donut pad design and use
- Ankle bracing
- Knee bracing
- Shoulder bracing
- Elbow bracing
- Wrist and thumb bracing
- Basic First Aid Skills
- CPR certification
- First aid certification
- Wound care
- Heat illness care knowledge
- Crutch use
- Ability to measure blood pressure
- Manual Therapy
- Stroking, petrissage, tapotement massage techniques
- Cross-friction massage techniques
- Effleurage massage techniques
- Therapeutic Modalities
- Cryotherapy
- Thermotherapy
- Hydrotherapy
- Electrical stimulation
- Ultrasound
- Light therapy
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| 11. Honors Description - No longer used. Integrated into main description section. |
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| 12. Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing and Outside of Class Assignments - |
| Explanation of theories, indications and contraindications of therapeutic modality use.
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| 13. Need/Justification - |
| This course is a required core course for the AS degree in Athletic Injury Care.
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