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HL20536: Sport and exercise medicine

[Page last updated: 03 August 2022]

Academic Year: 2022/23
Owning Department/School: Department for Health
Credits: 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 200
Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Period:
Academic Year
Assessment Summary: OR 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Oral and presentation (OR 50%)
  • Oral and presentation (OR 50%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: Before taking this module you must take HL10521 AND take HL10522 AND take HL10524 AND take HL10525
Learning Outcomes:
  1. Appraise the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches within sport and exercise medicine;
  2. Examine the biomechanical and physiological stresses placed upon the musculo-skeletal system during sporting and exercise activities;
  3. Evaluate the limits of the human body and how they can adapt to training to infer how these stresses can lead to common injuries and illnesses;
  4. Discuss and evaluate the common methods used to prevent injuries in various sporting activities and the emergency procedures that can be adopted in acute sporting injury scenarios;
  5. Interpret the principles of tissue healing and rehabilitation in the context of management of common injuries of soft tissue and bone;
  6. Appraise the use and impact of technology on the monitoring, diagnoses and treatment of exercise, sport and injuries;
  7. Evaluate the use of  drugs in sport, both for treating common sporting injuries and performance enhancement.


Aims: To adopt a multidisciplinary approach to identify the factors influencing injury and illness and appraise how the field of sport and exercise medicine can contribute to injury prevention, performance enhancement and a healthy lifestyle.

Content: Role of the members of the sport and exercise medicine team: multidisciplinary vs interdisciplinary approach.
Principles of injury and injury prevention as evidenced by common sport and exercise injuries:
  • Limits of the different elements of the musculo-skeletal system and their adaptation to training
  • Risk factors for injury
  • Biomechanics and physiology of injury
  • Psychology of injury
  • Injury prevention programmes and their successful implementation

Acute management of sporting injuries
Medical imaging
Principles of rehabilitation
Maximising sport and exercise performance
  • Growth and Maturation
  • Training Load
Exercise and immune function
Common sports related illnesses
Disability sport
Drugs in sport.

Programme availability:

HL20536 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:

Department for Health
  • UHHL-AFB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AKB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AFB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Year 2)
  • UHHL-ACB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Combined Professional Placement and Study Abroad (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AAB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Study year abroad (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AFM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Year 2)
  • UHHL-ACM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Combined Professional Placement and Study Abroad (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AAM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Study year abroad (Year 2)
  • UHHL-AKM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 2)

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2022/23 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2023/24 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2022/23.
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