This comprehensive course is designed to equip participants with advanced knowledge and practical skills in injury prevention, management, and rehabilitation for team sports. Grounded in scientific evidence, the programme will enable participants to propose effective injury prevention strategies tailored to the specific demands of each sport.
Throughout the course, you will learn to handle pathologies and injuries common to various team sports, improve your critical analysis by exploring the roles of sports science and health professionals, and enhance sports performance through a deeper understanding of strength and muscle power training methodologies. Participants will also develop the expertise to design post-injury rehabilitation processes, where strength development plays a crucial role in recovery.
Additionally, the course provides tools to analyse workload monitoring data, enabling participants to adjust training processes in a way that prevents injuries and optimises performance. You will also gain practical strategies for addressing specific, real-world challenges regularly encountered in athletic environments.
Fees
COURSE OUTLINES
Syllabus:
1: Injury Prevention.
2: Team Sports Pathology.
3: Neuromuscular Basis for Strength Training.
4: Strength training methodology: its application in the improvement of sports performance and post-injury rehabilitation for competition.
5: Strength and muscle power as a key feature of rehabilitation from sports injuries.
6: A Best Practice Approach to Workload Monitoring.
7: The Training - Injury Prevention Paradox.
8: Nutrition, Recovery and Training Adaptations.
9: Daily Situations in Sport.
Learn to:
• Propose efficient prevention strategies based on a process founded on scientific evidence.
• Handle pathologies and specific injuries corresponding to each sport.
• Improve critical analysis by completing a training program on the different professional roles of sports science and health.
• Improve sports performance and injury prevention through a deepened understanding of the methodology to use in strength training and muscle power programs.
• Apply the appropriate methodology to the design of the post-injury rehabilitation process in situations where strength development plays a significant role.
• Analyse workload monitoring data to orientate the training process towards preventing injuries and consequently successfully optimise sports performance.
• Acquire specific strategies for resolving specific situations that arise in the athletic environment on a regular basis.
COURSE DETAILS
Duration: 9 months.
Average dedication: 6/8 weekly hours.
Delivered in: English.
Aimed at:
• Strength and Conditioning coaches;
• Physiotherapists;
• Return-to-Play coaches;
• Sports Physicians.
PREREQUISITES
A good understanding of injuries and the human body would be beneficial.