SPCO221-21S2 (D) Semester Two 2021 (Distance)

Injury and Rehabilitation

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 July 2021
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2021
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 1 August 2021
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 1 October 2021

Description

This course will provide students with an understanding of prevention, treatment, management and rehabilitation of acute and chronic sports injuries, essential for sports coaches. The injury risk to special population groups such as children, adolescents, and female athletes will be highlighted.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, successful students will be able to:
1. Describe the role of a sports coach in preventing and managing sports injuries
2. Describe the injury healing process and sport injury mechanisms
3. Identify injury risks and create strategies for the injury prevention
4. Apply principles of sports injury rehabilitation and prescribe rehabilitation exercises
5. Demonstrate the ability to strap upper and lower limb joints to prevent sports injuries.

Prerequisites

Any 60 points at 100 level from any subject, or
any 15 points at 100 level from SPCO.

Course Coordinator

Sibi Walter

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $910.00

International fee $4,438.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 20 people apply to enrol.

For further information see School of Health Sciences .

All SPCO221 Occurrences

  • SPCO221-21S2 (C) Semester Two 2021
  • SPCO221-21S2 (D) Semester Two 2021 (Distance)
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