Module Title: Basic Concepts on Sports and Exercise Medicine
Module Code: BSM301
Programme Title: Bachelor of Sports and Health Sciences
Credit Value: 12 credits
Objective of the Module:
In this module the students will be introduced to the broad concept of sports medicine as it applies to all exercising individuals and not just confined to the management of sporting injuries; the composition of the sports medical team and their responsibilities in various sporting events. They will also learn the principle of injury prevention as well as to recognize and provide basic emergency care to the ill and the injured victims during sporting events.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the module, students will be able to
- Explain the historic development of athletic training and sports and exercise medicine.
- Define the broad concept of Sports and Exercise Medicine as “total medical care of the exercising individual”.
- Identify the members of the Sports and Exercise Medicine Team and their responsibilities in regard to athletic training and sporting activities.
- Define the role of an emergency first aider, be able to complete an accident report form and describe the safe use of first aid equipment.
- Examine and recognize common on-the-field emergencies and provide basic lifesaving manoeuvres when required.
- Recognise the need to commence and perform Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
- Execute safe casualty transport and pick methods.
- Describe some recent advances in the treatment protocol of sporting emergencies.
Assessment Approach
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Assessment mode
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Quantity
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Weighting
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Assignments
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2
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20%
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Class Tests
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1
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5%
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Field/ Lab report
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1
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10%
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Class participation/ viva-voce
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5%
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Midterm Examination
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1
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10%
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Total Continuous Assessment (CA)
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50%
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Summative Assessment (2.5 Hours written examination)
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1
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50%
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Pre-requisite knowledge: Anatomy, biomechanics and physiology
Subject Matter:
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Session (Hours)
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Topics
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Teaching & Learning Strategies
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Mode of Assessment
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1(15 Hrs)
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1. Unit I: Fundamental principles
1.1. A brief history of sports medicine and athletic training
1.2. What is Sports and Exercise Medicine? (A broad subject which describes “total care of an exercising individual” by a multidisciplinary team)
1.3. The Team Approach:
1.3.1. General Practitioner
1.3.2. Sports Physician
1.3.3. Orthopedist’s
1.3.4. Physiotherapists
1.3.5. Masseurs
1.3.6. sports trainer
1.3.7. Athletic trainer
1.3.8. Exercise physiologists
1.3.9. Biomechanists
1.3.10. Orthotists
1.3.11. Coaches
1.3.12. Fitness advisors
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Lecture
Presentation
Class discussion
Group activity
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Assignment
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2(25 Hrs)
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2. Unit II: Principle of Injury Prevention
2.1. Injury prevention protocol
2.2. Sequence of prevention
2.3. Why is injury prevention in sports important
2.4. A systematic approach to sports injury prevention
2.5. Sports behaviour in injury prevention
2.6. Developing and managing an injury prevention program within the team
2.7. General approach to injury prevention
2.7.1. Warm up
2.7.2. Stretching
2.7.3. Taping and Bracing
2.7.4. Protective equipment
2.7.5. Correct biomechanics
2.7.5.1. Lower limb biomechanics
2.7.5.2. Upper limb biomechanics
2.7.6. Suitable equipment
2.7.7. Appropriate surfaces
2.7.8. Appropriate training
2.7.9. Adequate recovery
2.7.10. Psychology and injury prevention
2.7.11. Nutrition and injury prevention
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Lecture, Presentation
Lab Demonstration
Lab Exercise
Role play
Videos
Field visit
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Lab and field reports and presentation
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3(25 Hrs)
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3. Unit III: Sport emergencies
3.1. Sideline preparedness
3.2. Recognition, evaluation and assessment of athletic injuries on the field
3.2.1. Primary survey
3.2.2. Secondary survey
3.3. Common sports emergencies on the field
3.3.1. Fainting/collapse
3.3.2. Muscle cramps
3.3.3. Impaled objects/penetrating injuries
3.3.4. Nose bleeds
3.3.5. Seizure attacks or epileptics fits.
3.3.6. Other emergencies (specify)
3.4. Basic Emergency Care of the Ill and the Injured Athletes
3.4.1. CPR
3.4.2. Emergency splinting
3.4.3. Control of active bleeding athletes
3.4.4. Wound care and dressing
3.4.5. Occlusive dressing in tension pneumothorax
3.4.6. How to give oxygen
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Lecture
Videos
Lab Demonstration
Role play
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Class test
Midterm Examinations
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4(20 Hrs)
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4. Unit IV: Sport injuries
4.1. Epidemiology
4.2. Classification of sports injuries
4.2.1. Traumatic
4.2.2. Overuse injuries
4.2.3. Musculoskeletal injuries
4.2.4. Non-musculoskeletal injuries
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Lecture
Presentation
Videos
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5(10 Hrs)
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5. Unit V: Regional injuries (basic concepts)
5.1. Head injuries
5.2. Neck injuries
5.3. Eye injuries
5.4. Maxillofacial injuries
5.5. Shoulder injuries
5.6. Elbow injuries
5.7. Hand and wrist injuries
5.8. Thorax and abdominal injuries
5.9. Thoracic and lumbosacral spine injuries
5.10. Pelvis Hip and thigh injuries
5.11. Knee injuries
5.12. Leg and ankle injuries
5.13. Foot injuries
5.14. Stress fractures
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Lecture Presentation
Lab/ hospital visit and demonstration
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6(25 Hrs)
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6. Unit VI: Principle of Pain and Inflammation Control in Athletes
6.1. What is pain?
6.2. What is inflammation?
6.3. Modalities of Treatments
6.4. PRICE- Protection, Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation
6.5. POLICE- Protect, Optimal Load, Ice, Compress, and Elevate
6.6. Physiotherapy Exercise
6.7. Others
6.8.
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Lecture Presentation
Videos
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Assignment
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7(20 Hrs)
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Field Study
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Visit to relevant departments in Hospital
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Field report
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8(45 Hrs)
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Laboratory practice
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Demonstration and practice
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Lab report, viva-voce
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Reading List:
Mandatory Readings
Gina, M. (2004). First Aid Manual. Hudson Street, NY: DK Publishing.
Kjaer, M., Krogsgaard, M., Magnusson, P., Engebretsen, L., Roos, H., Takala, T., & Woo, S. L-Y. (2003). Textbook of Sports Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Aspects of Sports injury and physical activity. Blackwell Publishing, USA.
Madden, C. C., Putukian, M., McCarty, E. C., Young, C. C., & Netter, F. H. (2018). Netter’s Sports Medicine, 2nd edition. Elsevier, USA.
Potteiger, J. A. (2011). ACSM’s Introduction to Exercise Science.
Supplementary Readings:
Jackson, R. (Ed. 2000). Sport Medicine Manual. Hurford Enterprises Limited, Canada.
Sewell, D., Watkins, P., & Griffin, M. (2014). Sports and exercise science: an introduction. Routledge, London.
Waddington, I., & Smith, A. (2009). An introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning. Routledge, London