Programme that allows to deepen on the role of strength training both in performance and in reducing the risk of injury, including the neurobiological approach and understanding of voluntary movement in the athlete and providing concepts related to the athlete’s psychological approach.
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COURSE OUTLINES
Syllabus:
1: Injuries and Team Sports.
2: Injury Prevention.
3: Team Sports Pathology.
4: Neuromuscular Basis for Strength Training.
5: Central Processing of Voluntary Movement.
6: Strength and muscle power as a key feature of rehabilitation from sports injuries.
7: The training-injury prevention paradox.
8: Efferent Organisation of Human Movement.
9: The Life of an Elite Athlete.
Learn to:
• Get to know the fundamental characteristics for both prevention strategies and injury rehabilitation, as well as the different injury mechanisms in team sports.
• 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 programme on the different professional roles of sports science and health.
• Determine how the central nervous system influences human movement as well as how we can shape the ability to make decisions for movement.
• 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.
• Identify the areas involved in the control and adjustment of movements, as well as how they are involved.
• Manage specific strategies to support a dual career and understand the different transitions in an athlete's life.
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.