This free online sports medicine course will explore sports therapy and the skills required to treat sports injuries. Injuries that occur while engaging in sports activities need immediate care. This course provides the guidelines for managing such injuries along with the basics of anatomy, nutrition, treatments and therapies. Furthermore, you will discover how to rehabilitate athletes to return them to their optimum level of sporting fitness. Those interested in pursuing a career in sports therapy will benefit from this course.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 188425 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Discuss the type of sports injuries that can occur • Outline the human anatomy in the context of sports injury • Recognise the most common causes of injuries in sports • Identify the duties of a sports therapist • Describe the methodology of assessment for sports therapy • List ten common sports injuries • Recognise the significant injuries that a sports first aider may encounter • Indicate the immediate first aid treatment of various injuries • Discuss the principles of nutrition • List the different rehabilitation exercises • Describe the fundamental principles of sports massage • Explain hydrotherapy and electrotherapy |
| Course Code | 4866 |
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