KINS 258 Care and Prevention of Injuries (3 credits)
Course Description
A course designed to familiarize the health and fitness professional with guidelines and recommendations for preventing injuries, recognizing injuries, and learning how to safely manage specific injuries and emergency situations.
Course Content
A. Scope of practice, legal liability and responsibility
B. Overview of the healing process
C. Anatomical review
D. Conditioning for injury prevention
F. Handling emergency situations and acute injury assessment
G. Bloodborne pathogens, universal precautions and policy regulation
H. Dangers of adverse environmental conditions
J. Therapeutic exercise selection, techniques and programming
K. Injury identification and management
L. Wrapping and taping technique
M. Head Injuries/Concussions
Student Outcomes
1. Explain the various roles and responsibilities as they relate to specific areas of specialization in sports medicine.
2. Describe the efficacy of proper programming for injury prevention, to include conditioning, strengthening, flexibility and core conditioning.
3. Protect oneself legally and physically, to include an exposure plan, documentation, liability insurance, scope of practice, operating procedures, and confidentiality.
4. Describe the process of healing, inflammation and tissue repair, drawing upon the basic anatomy and kinesiology for common sports and fitness related injuries.
5. Describe the emergency action plan, principles of on-site injury assessment, primary assessment and a secondary assessment.
6. Define and describe the potential dangers of hyperthermia and hypothermia, high altitude, and specific safety issues related to weather conditions.
7. Demonstrate basic skills of injury rehabilitation management of injuries and conditions to include development of goals and selection of exercise modalities for therapeutic exercise and taping.
8. Demonstrate the standardized assessment of concussions and head injuries and discuss the key provisions of the Zachary Lystedt Law.
Degree Outcomes
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems. Program Outcome: Identify all components that contribute to the maintenance of a safe exercise environment and the legal implications of one’s responsibility to carry out emergency procedures.
Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30
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