This module provides a comprehensive understanding of sport performance demands and their implications for athlete health and care. It equips students with knowledge from fundamental to advanced levels, integrating exercise physiology, biomechanics, and sport science principles. The content is designed to build a firm foundation for professional practice in sports medicine, athlete management, and health-related fields.
This module equips learners with the skills to recognize common sports injuries, understand their underlying mechanisms in both acute and overuse contexts, and identify as well as interpret the intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors that contribute to injury occurrence across different sporting environments.
This module equips learners with the knowledge and understanding, practical skills, and attitudes required for comprehensive sports injury management, rehabilitation support, and return to sport. It emphasizes the recognition of acute sports injuries, application of first aid procedures, use of assessment tools, and response to life-threatening conditions.
This module provides comprehensive knowledge of how to deal with athlete health and other different pressures around athletes. Sports medicine ethics focuses on the unique conflicts of interest that arise when caring for athletes. It introduces the knowledge and skills for communicating with all professionals around athletes.