Certificate in Team Sports Physician Essential Concepts
The sports industry is in the midst of a revolution. Every day we see athletes and teams from different sports overcoming their limits and setting new and challenging objectives. However, the constant, increasing pressure to achieve can bring about an increase in injuries. Within this context, the team physician becomes a crucial role with greater scope and complexity, creating a major need for specificity in terms of teaching and courses on the market. Sports medicine professionals are key to the health of athletes at all levels as they are involved in the diagnosis and treatment of injuries and the prevention of pain, injuries, and poor habits. In the Certificate in Team Sports Physician Fundamentals, Gil Rodas develops the essential concepts inherent to team sports medicine, including improvements in nutritional control, a deeper understanding of the physiology of effort to obtain better physical results, the establishment of therapeutic criteria for fast recovery, the detailed study of ergogenic aids before and after effort, and of course, an understanding of the serious issue of doping. At the end of this certificate, you will be trained to make better decisions in the sport science environment, as applied to team sports. DISCLAIMER. This certificate does not provide accreditation for the professional practice of sports medicine.
- Category: Sports Medicine
- Level: beginner
- Duration: 4 months
- Price: 675 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
- Handle and manage data from evaluations and monitoring of performance and team injuries, compared to data from science and training.
- Understand the fundamental characteristics for both prevention strategies and injury rehabilitation, as well as the different injury mechanisms in team sports.
- Handle pathologies and specific injuries corresponding to each sport.
- Master complementary topics inherent to sports medicine.
Course content
- Module 1: Team Sports Physician and Data Management
- Role of the team sports physician
- Data management and methodology
- Sports injuries in other populations
- Monitoring workload
- Module 2: Injuries and Team Sports
- Prevention of and readaptation from injuries
- Muscle injury and tendinitis management
- Management of joint and bone injury
- Decision making and returning to competition
- Module 3: Team Sports Pathology
- Management of medical pathology 1
- Management of medical pathology 2
- Sports specific pathologies
- Special sports and competitions
- Module 4: Inherent Aspects of the Team Sports Physician
- Diagnostic imaging: Ultrasound as the team sports physician’s basic tool
- Nutrition and ergogenic aids
- The fight against doping
- Communication, leadership, and group management