This course is an introduction to the principles of epidemiology and their application to sports science. We will address the role of epidemiology in investigating sports injuries and other factors in sports performance. The course also stresses clinical research design methods utilized in sports science research as well as general clinical research designs such as clinical trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, and other pragmatic designs. There will also be an emphasis on the analysis and application of the current scientific literature as it relates to sports medicine and sports performance.
- Instructor: Brent Marshall
This course focuses on the physiological responses and adaptations to exercise , focusing specifically on the cardiorespirator and neuromuscular systems of the body. The laboratory component of this course will feature various clinical data collection procedures and assessments relating to energy expenditure, submaximal and maximal oxygen consumption, blood lactate accumulation, electrocardiography, body composition, and spirometry. (4+0) *Prerequisite: prior physiology coursework (or instructor approval).
- Instructor: Christopher Connolly
This course focuses on the evaluation and management, including acute care, rehabilitation, and prevention, of injuries and disorders of the pelvis, hip, thigh, knee, calf, ankle and foot.
- Instructor: Craig Kawaoka
- Instructor: Tim Timothy Ray
This course focuses on the evaluation and management, including acute care, rehabilitation, and prevention, of injuries and
disorders of the cervical and thoracic spine, shoulder, arm, elbow, forearm, wrist and hand.
- Instructor: Dale Buchberger
- Instructor: Brent Marshall
In this course students explore issues regarding ethics and
jurisprudence associated with working with athletes, as well as how to
communicate with other members of the athlete’s “team” of stakeholders.
Students learn how to establish a sports injuries and rehabilitation
practice.
- Instructor: Michael Reed
This course focuses on the dietary needs for physical activity and peak
performance with a focus on nutritional assessment, metabolism, and use
of supplements and botanicals in the management of sports injuries. In
addition, intentional and non-intentional abuses of supplements and
related compounds, and food/supplement interaction with regard to drug
tests commonly mandated in the athletic competitions are discussed.
- Instructor: Robert Davidson
- Instructor: Jun Kawaguchi
- Instructor: Brent Marshall
- Instructor: Jun Kawaguchi
- Instructor: Brent Marshall
This course focuses on mechanisms to improve athletic performance in the
areas of muscular strength, flexibility, and aerobic capacity for the
individual athlete and team. The assessment of performance in each of
these areas and the creation, implementation and monitoring of training
plans to achieve performance-based goals will be emphasized throughout
this course. Current peer-reviewed research and scientific/professional
expert reports will be strongly utilized.
- Instructor: Christopher Connolly
This is a series of four field-based practicums in which students participate in the evaluation and management of athletes. The required practicum hours are achieved through a variety of clinical experiences in physician offices, rehabilitation clinics, and sports performance laboratories as well as through participation in sporting events.
- Instructor: Jun Kawaguchi
- Instructor: Brent Marshall
This is a series of four field-based practicums in which students
participate in the evaluation and management of athletes. The required
practicum hours are achieved through a variety of clinical experiences
in physician offices, rehabilitation clinics, and sports performance
laboratories as well as through participation in sporting events.
- Instructor: Jun Kawaguchi
- Instructor: Brent Marshall
This course requires the student to collaborate with up to two other students in their cohort to produce an original research design suitable for submission to a Human Subjects Review Board (IRB) that demonstrates their mastery of a specified subject that they might endeavor to explore in a scholarly way. Students are not required to actually submit or to complete the research protocol they design, rather this exercise prepare all the necessary information and documentation that would be necessary if they actually intended to do the project. In that context, the project requires the student to select an area of study, review and critique the available literature on the subject and to design, on paper, a scientific investigation that would elucidate some previously unknown facet of the topic area. Optimally, the chosen subject will call upon the student to analyze and reflect on their experiences in the program in a scholarly way, including the student's academic achievement, practical experiences, and personal growth throughout the master's program.
- Instructor: Gary Schultz