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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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| Prerequisite: None
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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 primary workplace skills
- Demonstrate taping and wrapping skills
- Demonstrate manual therapy techniques
- Demonstrate 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) - |
| - Primary Workplace Skills
- Communication
- Body mechanics and personal safety
- Patient safety
- Daily maintenance of equipment and facilities
- Stocking of daily supplies
- Stocking of first aid kits
- Coverage of practices and games
- Taping and Wrapping Skills
- Foot taping
- Ankle taping
- Knee taping
- Thigh and hip wrapping
- Shoulder taping and wrapping
- Elbow taping
- Wrist, hand, and finger taping
- Manual Therapy
- Upper extremity stretching
- Lower extremity stretching
- Therapeutic Modalities
- Cryotherapy
- Thermotherapy
- Hyrdrotherapy
- Electical 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 evaluated 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. Fourteenth Edition. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2011.
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| 8. Disciplines - |
| Physical Education
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| 9. Method of Instruction - |
| Method of instruction may include but is not limited to hands-on practical instruction, in-service and workshop instruction and written summaries.
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| 10. Lab Content - |
| Instructor discussion and demonstration will teach:
- Primary Workplace Skills
- Communication
- Body mechanics and personal safety
- Patient safety
- Daily maintenance of equipment and facilities
- Stocking of daily supplies
- Stocking of first aid kits
- Coverage of practices and games
- Taping and Wrapping Skills
- Foot taping
- Ankle taping
- Knee taping
- Thigh and hip wrapping
- Shoulder taping and wrapping
- Elbow taping
- Wrist, hand, and finger taping
- Manual Therapy
- Upper extremity stretching
- Lower extremity stretching
- Therapeutic Modalities
- Cryotherapy
- Thermotherapy
- Hyrdrotherapy
- Electical 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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