Sports Medicine (LSPA_179)
About Study Course
Objective
To learn the basics of sports medicine knowledge, skills and competences necessary for sports specialists.
Prerequisites
Study courses mastered: Teacher’s Professional Skills, Civil Protection, State Security and Environmental Protection for Sustainable Development, Teaching and Learning in the Context of Diversity, Business and Accounting, Educational Psychology for Teachers, Biomechanics and Ergonomics, Human Anatomy and Dynamic Anatomy, Management of Educational Institution, Foundations and Methodology of Obstacle Overcoming, Foundations and Methodology of Moving Objects, Foundations and Methodology of Moving, Inclusive and Special Sports Education, Health Promoting Physical Activities, General and Physical Activity Biochemistry, General and Age-Specific Physiology, Movement Games, Outdoor Activities: Content and Methodology of Moving with Sports Equipment and/or Sport in Multicultural Environment and Olympic Education, Foundations and Methodology of Swimming, History of Sport, Philosophy of Sport.
Learning outcomes
1. Main issue of sports medicine as the functioning of a health-promoting and ensuring system, its objectives, tasks, organisation of functioning.
2. Organisation and content of preventive medical examinations for children, young people and athletes in accordance with Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 594 of 06.09.2016, which prescribe the procedures for health care and medical supervision of children and athletes with increased load.
3. To determine and evaluate posture, body somatotype, the condition of legs and feet.
4. To determine the physical development of children and young people, be able to assess their conformity with the anthropometric standards of physical development in children and young people of Latvia.
5. To determine and be able to evaluate and analyse weight composition.
6. To provide first aid.
7. To assess the physical fitness of children and young people and the functional capacity of the body by using EUROFIT tests, to analyse results over time.
