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Course Description
Athletics present a wonderful opportunity for children to realize their physical potential and learn valuable life lessons. It promotes health, wellness, and an active lifestyle. It also, unfortunately, opens the athlete up to the possibility of injury. These rates of injury are increasing as children enter into athletic competition and streamline that athletic competition at earlier ages. We treat these injuries in our clinics, and with the changing healthcare environment, we have fewer visits in which to do so.
Therefore, if the health care provider hopes to continue to produce positive outcomes for our patient athletes, greater emphasis needs to be placed on not only traditional treatment of injury, but prevention of them. Intimate knowledge of the body as it relates to sport is imperative for health care providers in order to effectively prevent injuries in these patients through education to parents, athletes, and coaches. These same principles can also then be applied to treat these injuries should they occur.
This course teaches the health care provider how the human body plays the sport of baseball. This course addresses the anatomy and biomechanics applicable to baseball so that it can then be applied to a thorough review of literature on injuries and their prevention. Every health care provider involved in baseball needs to know this information. It is a critical component of our duty in health care to ‘Do No Harm’.
This Seminar-On-Demand is 3 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
 Contact Hours: 3 |
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 Target Audience: ATC/LAT, CSCS-NSCA-CPT, PT, PTA |
Instructional Level: Advanced |
BOC Level of Difficulty: Mastery |
Course Outline:
Hour 1
- List the anatomy of areas of body involved in the sport
- Recognize the biomechanics and kinetics of the movement pattern in baseball – the overhand throw
Hour 2
- Identify biomechanics of alternate pitch types
- Identify common errors in the movement pattern and why they can be harmful
Hour 3
- Identify signs and symptoms of potential injuries.
- List the changes that occur in the body even when asymptomatic
- Identify injury prevention programs
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional on overuse injuries commonly found in young athletes.
Professional Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to
- List the anatomy of areas of body involved in the sport
- Recognize the biomechanics and kinetics of the movement pattern in baseball – the overhand throw
- Identify biomechanics of alternate pitch types
- Identify common errors in the movement pattern and why they can be harmful
- Identify signs and symptoms of potential injuries.
- List the changes that occur in the body even when asymptomatic
- Identify injury prevention programs
Criteria for Completion:
A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved.
Authors:
Dr. Kerry Holt, PT, DPT
Dr. Kerry Holt, PT, DPT received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame with a double major in pre-professional studies and psychology in 1999. She went on to receive her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Duke University School of Medicine in 2002. Dr. Holt has been a practicing clinician for over 10 years with extensive experience in the areas of geriatrics, neuromuscular rehabilitation, orthopedics and sports rehabilitation. She has maintained active personal interest and participation in athletics, is married, and has two children.
Dr. Holt began teaching courses pertaining to injury and disease prevention out of an overwhelming response from her patients on the value of the education provided during her treatments. The sense of “I wish I had known that before this happened.”, or “If I had known that, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.” was present with almost every patient. Dr. Holt’s vision is to educate clinicians on the research pertaining to injury and disease prevention such that this information can be applied to clinical practice for purposes of prophylaxis and health promotion.
