Must be enrolled on the sports therapy degree programme

Appropriately and adequately equipped lecture room
Appropriately and adequately equipped workshop room
Appropriately and adequately stocked library facilities
Access to Blackboard

Written assessment (1500 words) - 50% (LO's 2, and 4)
This assessment is a case study of an athlete with a specific sports injury (chosen by module leader). This will include a discussion of the injury and related clinical issues, a review of current literature and a rehabilitation plan.

Practical Assessment - 50% (LO's 1 and 3)
The assessment is an assessment of the students all round practical skills required of a sport therapist.
The student will be required to demonstrate practical competencies associated with objective assessment procedures used during the patient assessment process and deliver a 20min rehabilitation session to a client with a sport injury. The student will be expected to deliver the rehabilitation programme as a real time session (correct timings, reps, sets etc...) with exercises and interventions being safe, effective and relevant for the chosen stage.

All elements of summative assessment MUST be passed to achieve an overall pass in this module.
You are required to have 80% attendance on this module.
Formative assessment will be provided throughout the module via practice situations, discussions and independent study exercises.

Essential:
Brukner, P. & Kahn, K. (2011) Clincal Sports Medicine (4th ed) New York: Edbury Press
Prentice, W. E. (2010). Rehabilitation techniques in sports medicine and athletic training. (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: (72 hours)
12 x 2 hour tutor-led lecture programme
12 x 4 hour clinical workshops

Guided Independent Study: (228 hours)
50 hours tutor-directed independent study following lectures
50 hours tutor-directed independent study following workshops
40 hours in assignment preparation
38 hours practical experience
50 hours student-led independent study

In this module the student will continue to develop knowledge of anatomy and physiology relevant to sports therapy. Common injuries of the upper body will be examined in detail.

The student will develop their assessment techniques and learned protocols from the previous module (sports injury assessment and rehabilitation LOWER body) and utilise their clinical reasoning skills in order to assess common upper body sports injuries. Clinical and functional testing procedures will continue to be developed and practiced throughout the module.

The emphasis will then turn to the treatment and rehabilitation of common upper body sports injuries. This module looks at the components, outcomes, goals and objectives of a rehabilitation programme form acute stage to post-discharge.

Specific rehabilitation tools from the rehabilitation tools module will be utilised as part of a safe, effective and progressive rehabilitation plan in line with current research. Criteria for progression and return to competition will be discussed and evaluated.