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| 1. Description - |
| Athletic injury prevention is emphasized through pre-participation physical exams, exercise programs, preventative taping, proper fitting of equipment, and protective braces.
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| Prerequisite: None
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| Co-requisite: None
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| Advisory: Students must have reliable and ongoing Internet access to complete quizzes, discussions and assignments; not open to students with credit in H P 67A or PHED 67A.
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| 2. Course Objectives - |
| The student will be able to:
- identify basic musculo-skeletal anatomy.
- apply various adhesive strapping techniques to prevent injuries to joints.
- apply various elastic wrapping techniques to add support to injured muscles.
- demonstrate flexibility exercises to stretch major muscle groups.
- list the necessary items in a first aid kit.
- identify inflexible muscle groups that predispose someone to injury.
- employ knowledge of muscle anatomy by designing sport specific pre activity warm ups.
- discuss cultural differences in prevention care.
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| 3. Special Facilities and/or Equipment - |
| - When taught as an online distance learning or hybrid section, students and faculty need ongoing and continuous Internet and Email access.
- Injury treatment laboratory, Athletic tape, and Elastic bandages.
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| 4. Course Content (Body of knowledge) - |
| - General Considerations
- Communication
- Pre-participation
- Practice locations
- Warm up conditions
- Nutrition
- Protective equipment, braces
- Foot, Ankle, Lower Leg
- Predisposing conditions
- Mechanisms of injury
- Injury prevention through exercise
- Protective adhesive strappings
- Knee, Thigh, Pelvis
- Predisposing conditions
- Mechanisms of injury
- Injury prevention through exercise
- Protective adhesive strappings
- Spine, Thoracic, Abdomen
- Predisposing conditions
- Mechanisms of injury
- Injury prevention through exercise
- Protective adhesive strappings
- Shoulder and the Upper Extremity
- Predisposing conditions
- Mechanisms of injury
- Injury prevention through exercise
- Protective adhesive strappings
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| 5. Repeatability - Moved to header area. |
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| 6. Methods of Evaluation - |
| - Notebook
- Quizzes
- Practical examination
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| 7. Representative Text(s) - |
| Prentice, William E. Arnheim's Principles of Athletic Training. New York,NY: McGraw-Hill, 2011.
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| 8. Disciplines - |
| Human Performance
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| 9. Method of Instruction - |
| During periods of instruction the student:
- be exposed to Lecture and slide presentations concerning injury athletic prevention
- will participate in periods of practical question - answer sessions concerning athletic injury prevention
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| 10. Lab Content - |
| Hands on practice for athletic injury prevention including: bandaging, taping, manual resistance exercise, musculo-skeletal screening, warm up stretching techniques.
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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 - |
| Instruction will include:
- Reading Assignments from text
- Discussion/Chat Online
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| 13. Need/Justification - |
| This course is a required core course for the AS degree in, Athletic Injury Care and is a restricted support course for the AA degree in Physical Education.
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