This course prepares the student to handle emergency situations that
arise with athletes during exercise or sporting events, such as
cessation of breathing or circulation, shock, concussion, and spinal
injuries. Students will learn to assess critical injuries and illnesses,
follow procedures for providing care, and implement guidelines that
affect decisions for allowing athletes to continue with activity.
- Instructor: Brent Marshall
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
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: Brent Marshall
- Instructor: Gary Schultz
- Instructor: Rebecca Bell
- Instructor: Tiffany Reiss
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: 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
- Instructor: Cisco Gabriel Reyes
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: Brent Marshall
- Instructor: Gary Schultz
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: Brent Marshall