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This course is designed to provide the athletic training and exercise science students with an understanding of how various Over The Counter (OTC), prescription, illegal and performance-enhancing drugs affect the body's ability to perform athletic tasks and skills. Specific pharmacological and physiological effects of these drug groups will be discussed.
Application of Athletic Preventive Devices. This course will serve as an introduction to the athletic training clinical program procedures, policies and application of athletic preventive devices.
Evaluation Lab — Lower Extremity. This course will serve as a process for monitoring students' progression of athletic training proficiencies, to acquire clinical hours under the direct supervision of a certified athletic trainer and reinforce the evaluation skills of gait, lower extremity, and spine/pelvis.
Evaluation Lab — Upper Extremity. This course will serve as a process for monitoring students' progression of athletic training proficiencies, to acquire clinical hours under the direct supervision of a certified athletic trainer and reinforce the evaluation skills of the upper extremities, head, neck and posture.
Emergency Procedures. This course will serve as a process for monitoring students' progression of athletic training proficiencies, to acquire clinical hours under the direct supervision of a certified athletic trainer and reinforce and instruct new emergency procedures.
Rehabilitation Lab. This course will serve as a process for monitoring students' progression of athletic training competencies, to acquire clinical hours under the direct supervision of a certified athletic trainer and reinforce techniques and applications of therapeutic exercise and rehabilitation.
Athletic Training Seminar. This course will serve as a process for monitoring students' progression of athletic training competencies, to acquire clinical hours under the direct supervision of a certified athletic trainer and serve as a capstone course validating the athletic training clinical proficiencies and prepare students for the NATABOC certification exam and future employment.
Use of scientific assessment methods to recognize and evaluate the nature and severity of athletic injuries to the upper extremities, trunk and head.
Use of scientific assessment methods to recognize and evaluate the nature and severity of athletic injuries to the hip and lower extremities.
Contemporary therapeutic modalities used in managing athletic injuries. Modalities covered are classified as thermal agents, electrical agents or mechanical agents. Emphasis on their physiological effects, therapeutic indications (and contraindications) and clinical application.
A systematic approach to exercise program development, techniques, indications and contraindications of exercise, and exercise progression as related to athletic injury, prevention, reconditioning and return-to-play guidelines.
Administrative components of athletic training. Basic concepts of legal liability, financial management, day to day scheduling and supervision, maintenance, and general administration.
This course will provide a collection of knowledge, skills and values that the entry-level certified athletic trainer must posses to recognize, treat and refer, when appropriate, the general medical conditions and disabilities of athletes and others involved in physical activity.
Intended to serve as an introduction to biomechanics and focuses on scientific principles involved in understanding and analyzing human motion.
A study of the foundation literature in exercise physiology. Emphasis is placed on the muscular, cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
Practical experience in testing physical fitness utilizing laboratory equipment. Objective is to quantify physiological parameters, leading to the individualized exercise prescription.
This course will provide the methods and techniques of research in health education, physical education and recreation including an analysis of examples of their use and practice in their application to problems of interest to the student.
Basic educational statistics course for master's degree candidates. Includes concepts and operations as applied to frequency distributions, graphing techniques, measures of central tendency, measures of variation, random sampling and interpretation of statistical results.
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