All of the following courses are taught by the certified athletic training staff at Gardner-Webb University. Most have a laboratory component to practice and develop mastery of clinical competencies.
Clinical competencies are skills or tasks associated with a particular class.
The intent of this course is to provide the student with the knowledge, skills, and values they must possess to recognize, assess, and treat acute injury or illness of athletes and other physically active individuals. The student will develop the knowledge, skills, and values to identify injury and illness factors that may be encountered by athletes and others involved in physical activity and to plan and implement a risk management and prevention program. This course will concentrate on evaluation and recognition techniques for orthopaedic musculoskeletal injuries of the lower extremity. This course will concentrate on evaluation and recognition techniques for orthopaedic musculoskeletal injuries of the upper extremity. This course will provide the student with the knowledge, skills, and values they must posses to plan, implement, document, and evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic exercise programs for the rehabilitation and reconditioning of the injuries and illnesses of athletes and others involved in physical activity.