This module provides a comprehensive understanding of sport performance demands and their implications for athlete health and care. It equips students with knowledge from fundamental to advanced levels, integrating exercise physiology, biomechanics, and sport science principles. The content is designed to build a firm foundation for professional practice in sports medicine, athlete management, and health-related fields.
This module examines how sports injuries occur and what makes athletes vulnerable to them. It begins by establishing how sports injuries are defined and classified, by mode of onset (acute and overuse), by the tissue affected and by the body system involved. Building on this foundation, the module explores the mechanisms through which injuries happen and the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that increase injury risk. Attention is also given to how injury patterns and risks vary across athlete groups, including youth, older adults, women athletes and para-athletes. The module prepares health professionals to recognise, describe and anticipate sports injuries, and to apply this understanding to supporting athletes’ health and safe participation in sport.
This module equips learners with the knowledge and understanding, practical skills, and attitudes required for comprehensive sports injury management, rehabilitation support, and return to sport. It emphasizes the recognition of acute sports injuries, application of first aid procedures, use of assessment tools, and response to life-threatening conditions.
This module provides comprehensive knowledge of how to deal with athlete health and other different pressures around athletes. Sports medicine ethics focuses on the unique conflicts of interest that arise when caring for athletes. It introduces the knowledge and skills for communicating with all professionals around athletes.