XNB378 Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
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| Unit code: | XNB378 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | XNB272 and XNB274 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | XNB378 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | XNB272 and XNB273 and XNB274 |
| Coordinator: | Anthony Shield | aj.shield@qut.edu.au |
Overview
The role of exercise in preventing and treating athletic injuries is well accepted. Well-designed exercise/training programs must address the known risk factors for injury and recurrent injury. This requires an applied understanding of assessment, prescription and education based on evidence based practice and sport science reasoning. This advanced unit synthesises your previous knowledge of anatomy, biomechincs, exercise physiology and exercise prescription and builds on this by systematically considering a range of athlete specific concepts and case studies as seen in professional practice and applying to the sports science setting.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the aetiology (with a focus on modifiable evidence based risk factors), epidemiology and clinical course of common traumatic and insidious sports injuries in the development of injury prevention strategies.
- Assess and use clinical reasoning to justify the rehabilitation of common sports injuries to the point of return to play.
- Critically assess scientific literature and conventional practices in the field of sports injury prevention in order to make informed decsions and around the design and delivery of evidence-based injury prevention programs for the athlete.
- Critically assess scientific literature and conventional practices in the field of sports injury rehabilitation in order to make informed decisions and around evidence-based injury rehabilitation programs for the athlete.
Content
Topics will include evidence based assessment, exercise prescription and programming for selected athletic injuries from time of injury to return to play that may include but are not limited to the following areas:
Module 1: Lower extremity injuries
Module 2: Upper extremity injuries
Module 3: Head Injuires
Module 4: Trunk Injuries
There will also be a focus on multi-diciplinary practice in the a) injury prevention, b) assessment c) rehabilitation/management and c) return to play parameters of these injuries in athletic populations.
Learning Approaches
You will complete this unit over a 13 week semester. This unit provides opportunities for case study learning activities relevant to a injury prevention and rehabilitation in the sports science environment that strengthen the connection between theory and application, and prepare you for professional practice. The content will be divided into modules, each of which will be supported by learning modalities that may include, but are not limited to, a combination of lectures, readings, case studies and clinical lab activities.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback to students
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- a range of formative exercises will be discussed in class;
- comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets;
- generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas;
- criteria sheet grading; and
- feedback from peers.
Assessment
Overview
Summative assessment consists of two items as outlined below. Assessment focussed formative learning opportunities will be provided during the semester. You will have an opportunity to design and deliver evidenced based injury prevention and rehabilitation strategies for athletic populations through various case studies presented in tutorials.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Portfolio: You will demonstrate your application of evidenced-based knowledge and sport science reasoning through the compilation of case studies completed during the semester that demonstrates your ability to plan evidence based injury prevention and rehabilitation strategies for various athletic populations.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Presentation
Acting as an exercise professional, you will provide a professional development presentation to medical and allied health colleagues describing the epidemiology of a common injury and guide best practices on related injury prevention or rehabilitation programs that can be implemented in their workplace.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Learning material, resources and information will made available via Canvas, including journal articles, government publications and national foundation resources.
In addition to the online materials, the following texts are recommended:
Brukner and Kahn. (2012). Clincial sports medicine. McGraw-Hill, Australia.
Various Journal Articles.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Brukner and Kahn. (2012). Clincial sports medicine. McGraw-Hill, Australia.
Risk Assessment Statement
There is no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.