Beginning Sports Med

Can fulfill the practical art requirement for graduation.

Sports Medicine is a one year course designed for students who are interested in fields such as athletic training, physical therapy, medicine, fitness, psychology of exercise, kinesiology, nutrition, and other related fields. The course has both classroom and lab components. In this course, students will focus on recognition of care, prevention, and pre-preliminary rehabilitation of athletic injuries. The course includes classwork, hands-on application, and observation in prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of sports injuries, taping and wrapping of injuries, first aid/CPR emergency programs, and sports medicine careers. The second semester emphasizes specific body sections for anatomy, physiology of common injuries, along with specific taping of injuries.