Sport and Exercise Performance

Summary

This module facilitates analysis of your prior experience in sport and exercise, to allow exploration of the specialist area in the context of evidence based practice. It builds upon your existing knowledge and experience of sport and exercise performance, exploring key components of performance including the application of exercise physiology, biomechanics, and psychology. Key issues of fatigue and prevention of injury etc will be explored. Issues of performance will be applied to the context of the different client groups to encompass individual/team, novice/elite, leisure/competition and able bodied dimensions of sport and exercise. Performance will be considered critically in the context of prevention; assessment and management of injury.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the module you should be able to:

  • Critically evaluate the key components of sport and exercise performance
  • Evaluate the body’s adaptation to training, disease and injury
  • Discuss the role of sports professionals in preparation for sport /exercise and prevention of injury
  • Critically evaluate how performance in sport/exercise changes throughout the lifespan
  • Discuss the implications of performance in sport and exercise in different client groups

Credits

20 credits

Module Attendance Required

36 hours

Module Dates

2011/12 dates

  • June 2012 (dates TBC) 

Assessment

50% - Seminar presentation critically evaluating a preventative technique for performance within a selected sport and specific injury. 20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes discussion.
50% - 2000 word written analysis of an evidence based management plan of a specific sports / exercise injury, to return the patient back to their required performance level.

Stand Alone Course

This module can be taken as a stand alone course if required. To apply, please contact the Programme Administrator:

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 3126
Email: np-pgadmissions@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Fee if taken as a stand alone course

The Home/EU fee for the module is £1067, the overseas fee 1620.

Entry requirements if taken as a stand alone course

For further information on requirements please contact the Programme Administrator

Key facts

Type of Course: Continuing professional development

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