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Kinesiology

Sports Medicine

SPMD 054 3.0 Units SPMD 055B 3.0 Units
Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries Sports Medicine-Athletic Training Practicum Spring Sports
Course Advisory: SCC minimum English and Math Course Advisory: SCC minimum English and Math
standards. standards.
Transferable to CSU Transferable to CSU
Hours: 48-54 lecture. Hours: 24-27 lecture, 72-81 lab.
An introduction to the field of Athletic Training/ Supervised volunteer athletic experience which provides
Sports Medicine as a profession and as an academic students with the opportunity for immediate recognition
discipline. Designed to train students in the recognition, and treatment of upper extremity sports injuries.
rehabilitation, and prevention of athletic injuries. Emphasis is on taping techniques and rehabilitation which
Emphasis is on learning and applying a variety of taping enables athletes to return to competition. Spring sport
techniques and athletic training therapies. Recommended experience include softball, baseball, men’s and women’s
introductory course for the Sports Medicine program. swimming and diving. Injuries specific to these sports
include most upper extremity injuries.
SPMD 055A 3.0 Units
Sports Medicine-Athletic Training Practicum Fall Sports SPMD 071 Back Care and Injury Management 1.0 Unit
Transferable to CSU Course Advisory: SCC minimum English and Math
Hours: 24-27 lecture, 72-81 lab. standards.
Supervised volunteer athletic experience which provides Transferable to CSU
students with the opportunity for immediate recognition Hours: 48-54 lecture.
and treatment of lower extremity sports injuries. Emphasis A course designed for students with interest in back care
is on taping techniques and rehabilitation which enables or managing a back injury. Individualized and group
athletes to return to competition. Fall sport experience exercises will focus on functional motor control, balance,
includes soccer, volleyball, rugby, and men’s and womans coordination, flexibility, developmental movement,
basketball, those sports that pose most lower individually developed exercises and strength and
extremity injuries. endurance for students with back injuries. There will be an
emphasis on encouraging independence in personal health
and teaching lifelong fitness knowledge and skills.

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