HL20536: Sport and exercise medicine
[Page last updated: 22 April 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department for Health |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | OR 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Oral and presentation (OR 50%)
- Oral and presentation (OR 50%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take HL10521 AND take HL10522 AND take HL10524 AND take HL10525
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Appraise the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches within sport and exercise medicine;
- Examine the biomechanical and physiological stresses placed upon the musculo-skeletal system during sporting and exercise activities;
- Evaluate the limits of the human body and how they can adapt to training to infer how these stresses can lead to common injuries and illnesses;
- Discuss and evaluate the common methods used to prevent injuries in various sporting activities and the emergency procedures that can be adopted in acute sporting injury scenarios;
- Interpret the principles of tissue healing and rehabilitation in the context of management of common injuries of soft tissue and bone;
- Appraise the use and impact of technology on the monitoring, diagnoses and treatment of exercise, sport and injuries;
- Evaluate the use of锟铰狅拷聽drugs in sport, both for treating common sporting injuries and锟铰爌erformance enhancement.
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| Synopsis: | Learn how to identify the key factors that influence injury and illness.
Utilising several related disciplines, you'll explore techniques to appraise how the field of sport and exercise medicine can contribute to injury prevention, performance enhancement and a healthy lifestyle.
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| Content: | Role of the members of the sport and exercise medicine team: multidisciplinary vs interdisciplinary approach.
Principles of injury and injury prevention as evidenced by common sport and exercise injuries:
- Limits of the different elements of the musculo-skeletal system and their adaptation to training
- Risk factors for injury
- Biomechanics and physiology of injury
- Psychology of injury
- Injury prevention programmes and their successful implementation
Acute management of sporting injuries
Medical imaging
Principles of rehabilitation
Maximising sport and exercise performance
- Growth and Maturation
- Training Load
Exercise and immune function
Common sports related illnesses
Disability sport
Drugs in sport.
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| Aims: | To adopt a multidisciplinary approach to identify the factors influencing injury and illness and appraise how the field of sport and exercise medicine can contribute to injury prevention, performance enhancement and a healthy lifestyle.
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| Course availability: |
HL20536 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:
Department for Health
- UHHL-AFB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science (Year 2)
- UHHL-AKB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 2)
- UHHL-AFB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Year 2)
- UHHL-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Study year abroad (Year 2)
- UHHL-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Combined Professional Placement and Study Abroad (Year 2)
- UHHL-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 2)
- UHHL-AFM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Year 2)
- UHHL-AKM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Study year abroad (Year 2)
- UHHL-AKM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Combined Professional Placement and Study Abroad (Year 2)
- UHHL-AKM22 : MSci(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 2)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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