Once again I was in class at National Sports Institute of Malaysia (ISN), Bukit Jalil. This time around it was for Sports Medicine. We have 10 participants for Session A as many are yet to return home from the Raya celebration.
An overview of Sports Medicine
Is to provide information and skills to enable the participants to understand the scope of sports medicine and how to apply these skills in an appropriate manner to the athletes.
Goals and Objectives:
- Understand the scope of sports medicine and the roles of the personnel that make up the sports medicine team and their educational background.
- To organize and implement a fitness testing protocol for athletes.
- To design and progress a year round conditioning program for athletes based on scientific principles.
- To establish an emergency plan for care of athletes.
- To understand the importance of universal precautions and be able to implement these in care of injuries.
- To be aware of vital signs and normal ranges and how to measure these signs.
- To be able to perform basic CPR and emergency care.
- To perform a basic primary and secondary survey of injuries.
- To be aware of various tissues in the body and how injuries may affect these tissues.
- To understand the relationship between nutrition, health and performance.
- To be aware of the use of taping, wrapping and splinting in athletic injuries.
- To understand the recovery and healing process and the use of therapeutic modalities and exercise in the recovery process.
- To recognize how common medical conditions may impact an athlete.
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| Dr. Donald Olsen and Me |
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| Recovery Position with Mr. Bones |
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| CPR |
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