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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

312073 (v.1) Sports Professional Practice 752

Area: School of Physiotherapy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 10.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Workshop: 2 x 2 Hours Weekly
Clinical Practice: 1 x 6 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 308276 (v.2) Musculoskeletal Science 751
Syllabus: Advanced sports clinical practice assessment and management of the spine and the peripheral joints. Sports specific athlete screening, injury prevention programs, on-field acute sports injury management; sports coverage; emergency medicine; club environment, sports clinical practice. Different age group athletes. Issues related to sports travel overseas; special sporting groups; ethics in sport; medical and legal issues as a sports physiotherapist and working in a professional sports medicine team. Examination of contemporary evidence for best clinical practice.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 061701 Physiotherapy
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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