Professional Diploma in Injury Management for Team Sports

MODULE 1: BASIC CONCEPTS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INJURY PREVENTION
Unit 1: Basic Concepts in Injury Prevention
Unit 2: Epidemiology in Team Sports

MODULE 2: MUSCLE INJURY PREVENTION
Unit 1: Prevention of the Most Frequent Muscle Injuries
Unit 2: The Preventive Approach to Muscle Injury Prevention

MODULE 3: PREVENTION OF JOINT INJURIES
Unit 1: Prevention of the Most Frequent Lower Limb Joint Injuries ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) Injury
Unit 2: Prevention of the Most Frequent Upper Limb Joint Injuries (Shoulder Injuries)

MODULE 4: INTEGRATIVE READING

MODULE 1: Management of medical pathology 1
MODULE 2: Management of medical pathology 2
MODULE 3: Sports Specific pathologies
MODULE 4: Special sports and competitions

MODULE 1: Characteristics of the musculoskeletal system.
Unit 1: Movement from the central nervous system.
Unit 2: Function of the skeletal muscles.

MODULE 2: Muscle action and its relationship to sports.
Unit 1: Types of muscle action.
Unit 2: Interrelationship of muscle action in movement and posture maintenance.

MODULE 3: Systemic changes in detraining and immobilisation.
Unit 1: Detraining in relation to the skeletal muscle.
Unit 2: Muscle hypertrophy.

MODULE 4: Assessment of muscular properties in relation to sport.
Unit 1: Surface electromyography.
Unit 2: Tensiomyography.

MODULE 1: Contextualization: how can we adapt strength training to team sports?
MODULE 2: Strength workload methodology in situation sports.
MODULE 3: Integrating strength workload into planning and programming of situation sports.
MODULE 4: Strength in the design of sports specific tasks. Examples based on football.

MODULE 1: Analysis of injury in sports: injury mechanisms and associated risk factors.
MODULE 2: Sports injuries and their relationship with the quality of strength.
MODULE 3: Strength manifestations and muscle power in the post-injury rehabilitation process.
MODULE 4: New paradigms in strength training: muscle building through vascular occlusion.

MODULE 1: Why do injuries occur?
MODULE 2: Fitness-fatigue model
MODULE 3: Acute:chronic workload ratio and injury
MODULE 4: Recent controversies, and practical applications of the data

MODULE 1: The training-performance relationship, and training load plus injury
MODULE 2: Is training really the problem?
MODULE 3: Importance of a good pre season. Moderators and mediators
MODULE 4: Common questions and Interpreting athlete monitoring data

MODULE 1: Exercise and fatigue
Unit 1: What is fatigue?
Unit 2: Delaying fatigue

MODULE 2: Recovery and adaptation
Unit 1: Recovery
Unit 2: Adaptation

MODULE 3: Optimising recovery and adaptation
Unit 1: Optimising recovery with nutrition
Unit 2: Optimising adaptation with nutrition

MODULE 4: Recovery from injury
Unit 1: Different phases of injury
Unit 2: Strategies

MODULE 1: Managing Injured Players
MODULE 2: Possibilities for a Dual Career
MODULE 3: Difficulty Management I
MODULE 4: Difficulty Management II