ATTR 355: Practicum IV-Athletic Training

Prerequisite: ATTR 325. Laboratory and clinical experiences designed to provide students with formal instruction and evaluation in the Entry Level Athletic Training Clinical Proficiencies.

Credit Hours: (4)

This course requires the completion of 240 hours of a program approved Clinical Instructor. A portion of these clinical hours must be done at an off campus rotation with pre-season football at a program approved clinical site.

Note(s): Students cannot receive credit for both ESHE 355 and ATTR 355.

Detailed Description of Content of Course

Course designed to allow the future certified athletic trainer an opportunity to develop their cognitive, psychomotor and affective skills while interacting in an athletic environment. The course offers a concentration in the psychomotor domain areas of head and spine assessment, rehabilitation and exercise and equipment issues associated with sport.

Detailed Description of Conduct of Course

Students will meet at the beginning of the semester to be briefed on the conduct required of them while in the athletic training room and to be advised of the clinical competencies that must be mastered in the course. Students will be required to work with a certified athletic trainer to participate in coverage of athletic events, and the assessment, rehabilitation and treatment of athletic injuries. At the same time, students will be developing their psychomotor domain skills in upper extremity assessment, rehabilitation and exercise. Students will only be allowed to perform tasks for which competency has been established in oral examinations with the clinical instructor staff or the ATEP program director.

Goals and Objectives of the Course

1. Demonstrate the ability to set up a pre-participation physical examination.
2. Describe principles of effective heat loss and heat illness preventive programs, in relation to the administration of an athletic training room.
3. Find and evaluate various position statements on adverse weather conditions.
4. Select, fabricate and apply appropriate preventative taping for the lower back.
5. Select and perform flexibility exercises for the cervical region, lumbar region, hip, and pelvis.
6. Perform a PND strengthening technique for a hip.
7. Demonstrate proper lifting technique for a power clean and the proper spotting technique for a power clean.
8. Select and fit a football helmet, lacrosse helmet, shoulder pads, and thoracic brace.
9. Implement the EAP at an activity or event.
10. Design sport specific rehabilitation protocols.
11. Demonstrate appropriate communication skills with an administrator and a parent.
12. Perform appropriate special tests for head and spine injuries.

Assessment Measures

• Oral examinations.
• Assessment by clinical instructor staff.

Additional Course Information

Review and Approval
November 2005

March, 2010