Sporting Injuries and Functional Performance
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| RHEU4023 | Medicine | 4 | 20 | Spring UK |
- Code
- RHEU4023
- School
- Medicine
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This module aims to provide students an understanding of the biomechanical components of key sports-specific movements and how they relate to common injuries that occur within sports. This would involve analysing the functional and biomechanical demands of a sport, alongside movement faults and patterns, streamlining biomechanical components of sports injury screening and prevention practice. Students would be exposed to technologies, tools and equipment’s used to objectively measure and analyse sports performance in the sports setting.
The second key aim of this module is to provide students the knowledge, skills, and dexterity in the clinical assessment and diagnosis of sporting injuries, alongside the immediate to long-term phases of rehabilitation following a sporting injury. This module builds on students’ knowledge of injury anatomy and biomechanics pertaining to neuro-musculoskeletal conditions and effective sports rehabilitation strategies.
Target Students
This module is offered to students are those enrolled in the MSc Sports Injury Rehabilitation program course.
Assessment
- 100% Practical: Practical Assessment
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
This module is designed to provide students the knowledge and understanding of sports specific biomechanics, relating to key movements, analysing the functional and biomechanical demands of a sport and how these inform sporting injuries. Students would gain insights on the common injuries that occur in different sports settings. Students would further be provided with an approach towards conducting an assessment of sporting injuries in a region-specific pattern and developing a progressively phased rehabilitation in the management of sporting injuries.Learning Outcomes
To understand the key movements, and biomechanical demands of specific sports, and distinguish between the functional and gait requirements in the sporting and non-sports settings.
To integrate common injury mechanisms to sports-specific movements and biomechanical requirements within the sport, identifying common biomechanical faults and patterns that translate to risk factors for sporting injuries and how to assess and correct for these factors e.g., Strength testing, Footwear anatomy etc.
To recognise the clinical presentations linked to different sporting injuries and a structure in the detailed subjective history taking.
To utilise special tests in the clinical setting including their validity and reliability and apply clinical reasoning skills throughout the process of injury assessment.
To design and implement short and long-term rehabilitation following sporting injuries.
Professional/practical skills:
To utilise critical thinking and problem-solving skills in the analysis of sports-specific functional movements
Clinical literacy and skills in the assessment and rehabilitation of sporting injuries