Sports Medicine CPU
Introduction
The Sports Medicine CPU introduces students to a growing field in the health care industry that is creating many exciting job opportunities for properly trained personnel. Sports medicine is a circle of care that begins on the playing field, advances to treatment, progresses to rehabilitation, and returns to the playing field. Students use hands-on activities that introduce them to proper stretching techniques, athletic taping, on-the-spot treatment of athletic injuries, rehabilitation, nutrition, and much more.
Featured Careers
- Athletic trainer
- Fitness trainer
- Physical therapist and assistant
- Massage therapist
Skill Development
Health Science Skills
- Anatomy and physiology and the cardiovascular, muscular, and skeletal systems
- Kinesiology and biomechanics
- Physical fitness assessment
- Athletic taping and strapping procedures
- Sport-specific injury diagnosis and rehabilitation techniques
- Importance of nutrition
- Testing the effects of drugs and other substances on athletic performance
Academic Skills
- Reading
- Writing
- Chemistry
- Mathematics - algebra
What's Included
- DEPCO Enterprises, LLC's Sports Medicine courseware CD
- Sports medicine textbook
- Stretching textbooks
- Exercise textbook
- Goniometer Ankle exercise board
- Exercise bands
- Knee injury poster
- Hip and knee poster
- Skinfold caliper set
- Portable taping stand
- Exercise mat
- Muscled shoulder model
- Stopwatch
- Daphnia magna and Daphnia magna culture kit
- Microscope
- Miscellaneous materials and consumables
- Instructor's Overview
- DEPCO Studio Media Player
Ordering Information
Sports Medicine - HS1062
CPU Objectives