Professional Diploma in Health and Performance in Sport
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, 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. Force Platform technology is increasingly used by performance, strength & conditioning and medical practitioners in sports in their daily practice. This technology has over the past decade become one of the most commonly available tools to assess neuromuscular performance in sports settings – as part of the profiling of healthy athletes and in their care and management as part of regular monitoring during the competitive season. This program 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 use of kinetics derived from force platform testsforce platform. Force platform testsforce platform (technology) has become a key asset when pursuing answers to performance and injury related questions that practitioners are constantly faced with in their roles. In this program, we aim to give you the means to understand and use data derived from force platform assessments to inform and enhance your decision-making processes in sports performance and rehabilitation-return to the sport.
- Category: Sports Medicine
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 10 months
- Price: 1150 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
- Get to know the fundamental characteristics of both prevention strategies and injury rehabilitation, as well as the different injury mechanisms in team sports.
- Improve sports performance and injury prevention through a deepened understanding of the methodology used in strength training and muscle power programs.
- Apply the appropriate methodology to design the post-injury rehabilitation process in situations where strength development plays a significant role.
- Learn to understand force plate assessment results to use the data in training or rehabilitation process management.
Course content
- Module 1: Team Sports Pathology
- Management of Medical Pathology 1
- Management of Medical Pathology 2
- Sports Specific Pathologies
- Special Sports and Competitions
- 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: Injury Prevention
- Basic Concepts in Epidemiology and Injury Prevention
- Muscle Injury Prevention
- Prevention of Joint Injuries
- Integrative Reading
- Module 4: Neuromuscular Basis for Strength Training
- Characteristics of the Musculoskeletal System
- Muscle Action and its Relationship to Sports
- Systemic Changes in Detraining and Immobilization
- Assessment of Muscular Properties in Relation to Sport
- Module 5: Strength and Muscle Power as Key Features of Rehabilitation from Sports Injuries
- Analysis of Injury in Sports: Injury Mechanisms and 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: Force Assessment and an Introduction to Kinematics
- Force Platform Testing Fundamentals
- CMJ Understanding Variables and Phases
- Kinematics Introduction
- Upper Limb Assessment
- Module 7: Injury and Rehabilitation Kinetics and Kinematics
- Kinetics in ACL Injury Risk and Rehabilitation (Isokinetics)
- Kinetics in ACL Injury and Rehabilitation (Jump-Land Testing)
- Kinematics in ACL Injury Risk and Rehabilitation
- Kinetics & Kinematics in Lower Limb Muscle and Tendon Injury and Rehabilitation - Patella and Achilles Tendon, Groin, Hamstring
- Module 8: Performance, Injury, and Rehabilitation Assessment Toolbox
- Additional Lower Limb Dynamic Tests (Squat Jump, Drop Jump, Squat, Land & Hold)
- Lower Limb Isometric Tests
- A Framework and Toolbox for Kinetics and Kinematics in Rehabilitation and Return to Sport
- A Framework and Toolbox for Short Term Load-Response Monitoring and Evaluating Chronic Adaptations
- Module 9: Advanced Sports Nutrition
- The History and Future of Sports Nutrition
- What it Takes to be Effective in Sports Nutrition
- Supplements versus Foods
- Immune System
- Module 10: Psychological Intervention Techniques
- Psychological Needs
- Activation-Relaxation and Visualization Techniques
- Thought Control, Routines, Self-Talk, Biofeedback
- Assessment Techniques in Sports Psychology