CSB538 Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation
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| Unit code: | CSB538 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | (CSB522 and CSB531) or (CSB525) |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,164 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,356 |
| International unit fee | $5,352 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | CSB538 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | (CSB522 and CSB531) or (CSB525) |
| Coordinator: | Matthew Rixon | m2.rixon@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Podiatrists encounter patients with a wide range of musculoskeletal problems and injuries related to diverse sports, exercise and health contexts. This unit provides you with a theoretical and practical background in sports and exercise medicine, including principles of diagnosis and case management, rehabilitation modalities, rehabilitation planning and evaluation, injury prevention, risk assessment in sport, and multi-disciplinary team care. The unit builds on a thorough understanding of anatomy, physiology, pathology and biomechanics and is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to manage patients with lower limb musculoskeletal injuries within clinical placements which occur later in the course.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply knowledge of orthopaedic, sport and rehabilitative medicine to generate solutions and client focussed management plans;
- Initiate a multidisciplinary approach to the evaluation and treatment of orthopaedic and sports injuries;
- Evaluate sports related conditions based on training, skill acquisition and performance;
- Safely apply physical medicine modalities accounting for their indications and contra-indications; and
- Use appropriate equipment for the purpose of dynamic evaluation of function.
Content
Specialist Knowledge
Sports and Exercise Medicine
- Principles of diagnosis and referral pathways
- The multi-disciplinary sports medicine team
- Sport-specific considerations: common lower limb injuries, footwear, playing surfaces
- Common injuries of the knee, hip, pelvis and lumbar spine
- Population-specific considerations: adolescent athletes, female athletes, exercise in chronic disease
- Principles of athletic training and performance
- Injury prevention and risk assessment in sport
Rehabilitation of Lower Limb Injuries
- Acute injury management
- Principles and effects of immobilisation
- Principles and goals of rehabilitation
- Designing, progressing and evaluating a rehabilitation plan
- Treatment modalities in rehabilitation: therapeutic exercise, electrophysical agents, manual therapy techniques
Clinical Skills
- Immobilisation and taping techniques
- Prescribing therapeutic exercises to achieve rehabilitation goals: strength, flexibility and proprioception
- Clinical assessments of the ankle, knee and hip
- Safe use of electrophysical modalities: hot/cold therapies, therapeutic ultrasound
- Manual therapy techniques for the lower limb: massage, dry needling, joint mobilisation
- Functional testing and evaluation of rehabilitation outcomes
- Use of technology to evaluate rehabilitation outcomes
Communication Skills
- Professional communication within a multi-disciplinary sports medicine team
- Athlete-centred management and conflicts of interest in sports medicine
- The importance of goal setting and evaluation in rehabilitation planning
- Educating athletes about load management and injury prevention
- Return-to-sport decision making
Please refer to Podiatry Board of Australia and national competency standards for more information.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in lectures, practical sessions, online discussion and a field trip activity.
This unit links theory to practice, with lectures providing the underpinning theoretical principles, and practical sessions where you will be introduced to new skills around treatment modalities and assessment of sports injuries. Your assessment tasks will draw together knowledge and skills elements, demonstrating applied clinical reasoning and problem solving. This unit provides you with the skills for Work Integrated Learning experiences in the QUT Health Clinics later in your Bachelor of Podiatry course.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach which includes lectures and laboratory practice where you will engage in collaborative activity with peers and tutors. Both content and organisation is designed for you to assess your progress in the unit and the course and gather evidence of meeting unit and course outcomes.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative feedback will be provided to you by teaching staff (including both academic and industry-based clinical teaching staff) during your practical sessions throughout the semester. This will include providing guidance on musculoskeletal assessment techniques and appropriate application of therapeutic modalities used in rehabilitation. Individual feedback will be provided on your performance in the practical demonstration assessment task undertaken in late semester.
In-class feedback will be provided to you as you develop an evidence-based rehabilitation pathway for your essay task. Individual feedback will be available via the Turnitin feedback studio following completion and marking of this assessment item.
Assessment
Overview
Each assessment item is designed to measure your ability to apply the knowledge and skills stated in the unit learning outcomes.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Demonstration
You will be examined on your ability to employ appropriate treatment modalities and physical examinations used in the management and rehabilitation of orthopaedic and musculoskeletal injuries in sports people with a focus on hands on demonstration of practical skills and techniques.
Assessment: Essay
You will be required to respond to an allocated essay question, applying knowledge of sports medicine and rehabilitation and utilising problem-solving skills to design an evidence-based rehabilitation pathway for a common lower limb injury encountered in sports medicine.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Examination (written)
You will be required to demonstrate knowledge within a theoretical examination which may include short answers, essays and multiple choice questions to assess your knowledge of orthopaedic, sport and rehabilitative medicine, therapeutics and the application of that knowledge to client focussed management plans.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Brukner, P., Khan, K., Clarsen, B., Cook, J., Cools, A., Crossley, K., Hutchinson, M. R., McCrory, P., & Bahr, R. (2017). Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine : Injuries, Volume 1 (5th ed). McGraw-Hill Education LLC. (Available in hardcover or eBook via QUT Library)
Recommended text(s)
Prentice, W. E. (2020). Rehabilitation techniques for sports medicine and athletic training (7th edition). SLACK Incorporated. (Available in hardcover or eBook via QUT Library)
Risk Assessment Statement
This unit will involve lab-based sessions. All students will be required to attend the induction session at the commencement of the semester where the safety precautions to be observed while working in the laboratory will be outlined. You are required to read the laboratory safety manual and sign the form indicating that you have read and understood the material contained in the manual. Please direct any questions regarding safe working procedures to the unit coordinator, staff who are conducting a session, or to technical staff.
This unit also includes a field trip activity, which may include off-campus travel. This activity will be supervised by a registered podiatrist and an activity-specific risk assessment has been conducted.