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Sports Medicine
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:8.00
Study Course Accepted:07.08.2023 13:13:47
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | REK_168 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation | Target Audience: | Rehabilitation | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Māra Kuļša | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Rehabilitation | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, rk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 20271291 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 24 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 28 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Human Anatomy, Physiology, Sport for Health, Kinesiology, Internal diseases, Traumathology and Orthopaedics. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To give knowledge about medical control for persons involved in sport and possible health problems and about fitness level assessment for different groups of people. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Sports medicine, its content. Medical control in sports medicine. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Medical control of special groups in sports. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Sports injuries and pathological conditions in sports | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Doping and doping control in sport. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Determination and evaluation of physical development in sports. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Determination and evaluation of functional status in sports. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Sports physiotherapy. Sports injury prevention and physiotherapy. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Study visit: Latvian Olympic team – medical provision for high-level athletes in Latvia. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Seminar: current issues in sports physiotherapy. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Sports medicine, its content. Medical control in sports medicine. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Medical control of special groups in sports. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Sports injuries and pathological conditions in sports | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Doping and doping control in sport. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Determination and evaluation of physical development in sports. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Determination and evaluation of functional status in sports. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Sports physiotherapy. Sports injury prevention and physiotherapy. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Study visit: Latvian Olympic team – medical provision for high-level athletes in Latvia. | Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 9 | Seminar: current issues in sports physiotherapy. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | • independent work with reading sources and preparation for the practical labs; • scientific article analysis and preparation for the seminar; • individual independent work development. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | • active participation in practical labs (5%) ; • active participation in seminar, demonstrating ability to analyze seminar texts (5%) ; • presentation of individual independent work (30%); • submitted individual independent work (fitness assessment protocol) in written form (30%); • final test (30%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Understand importance of medical control for different groups of people involved in sports activities; can describe health related fitness level components and assessment methods; get to know specific sports injuries and other pathological conditions and can describe risk factors. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Be able to assess and evaluate health related fitness level and recomend activities for improvement; be able to recognise and assess sport injuries and health risk factors and create prevention plan. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Be able to assess and explain health related fitness level and recommend activities for improvement for people involved in sports or people wanted to start physical activies; be able to recommend activities for sports injuries and pathologocal health condition prevention from physiotherapy point of view. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Lāriņs V. Sporta medicīna. Jumava, 2022 | ||||||||
| 2 | Brukner P., Khan K. Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine, Injuries. Volume I, Mcgraw Medical, 2017 | ||||||||
| 3 | Brukner P., Khan K. Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine, The Medicine of Exercise. Volume II, Mcgraw Medical, 2019 | ||||||||
| 4 | ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription. Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2021 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | ACSM's health-related physical fitness assessment manual. Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2021 | ||||||||
| 2 | ACSM's behavioral aspects of physical activity and exercise. Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014 | ||||||||
| 3 | Trenera rokasgrāmata. Jumava, Rīga, 2022 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | RSU pieejamās datu bāzes. | ||||||||
| 2 | http://estudijas. rsu.lv | ||||||||
