Advanced Program in Injury Management for Team Sports
Through the understanding of workload control and injury prevention, this program comprehensively addresses the bases that sustain strength as a quality to reduce the risk of injury, and thereby manage the correct use of training load in the field.
- Category: Injury Prevention & Rehab
- Level: beginner
- Duration: 7 months
- Price: 980 EUR
Official courses from Barça Innovation Hub, FC Barcelona's educational arm, with experts who have worked inside the club. Earn an accredited certificate issued by the hub, available across the Middle East and North Africa through Champions Hub, its official partner for the fifth year.
What you will learn
- Propose efficient prevention strategies based on a process founded on scientific evidence.
- Handle pathologies and specific injuries corresponding to each sport.
- Improve critical analysis by completing a training program on the different professional roles of sports science and health.
- Improve sports performance and injury prevention through a deepened understanding of the methodology to use in strength training and muscle power programs.
- Apply the appropriate methodology to the design of the post-injury rehabilitation process in situations where strength development plays a significant role.
- Analyze workload monitoring data to orient the training process towards preventing injuries and consequently successfully optimizing sports performance.
Course content
- Module 1: Injury Prevention
- Basic concepts in epidemiology and injury prevention
- Muscle injury prevention
- Prevention on joint injuries
- Integrative reading
- Module 2: Team Sports Pathology
- Management of medical pathology 1
- Management of medical pathology 2
- Sports Specific pathologies
- Special sports and competitions
- Module 3: Neuromuscular Basis for Strength Training
- Characteristics of the musculoskeletal system
- Muscle action and its relationship to sports
- Systemic changes in detraining and immobilisation
- Assessment of muscular properties in relation to sport
- Module 4: Strength Training Methodology: Its Application in the Improvement of Sports Performance and Post-Injury Rehabilitation for Competition
- Contextualization: how can we adapt strength training to team sports?
- Strength workload methodology in situation sports
- Integrating strength workload into planning and programming of situation sports
- Strength in the design of sports specific tasks. Examples based on football
- Module 5: Strength and Muscle Power as a Key Feature of Rehabilitation from Sports Injuries
- Analysis of injury in sports: injury mechanisms and associated risk factors
- Sports injuries and their relationship with the quality of strength
- Strength manifestations and muscle power in the post-injury rehabilitation process
- New paradigms in strength training: muscle building through vascular occlusion
- Module 6: Indicators for Training Load Management
- Weekly changes
- Acute chronic load ratio: concept and calculation method
- Acute chronic load ratio: application and limitations
- Training load moderators and mediators
- Module 7: Selecting Variables: Are We Repeating Information or Providing Additional Information?
- Relationship between internal load variables, and between external load variables
- Relationship between external load variables
- Integrating measurements. Efficiency index
- Selecting variables