Video
Instructional Level: Intermediate

Course Outline:

Hour 1

  • Spirit of Inquiry
  • Problem Statement
  • Significance of Practice Integration
  • PICOT Question
  • Purpose
  • Research Questions
  • Variables
  • Health Belief Model
  • Theoretical Framework
  • Methods
  • Description of Assessments (Signs and Symptoms; Misconceptions; Scenarios)

Hour 2

  • Hypotheses Results
  • Summary of Results
  • Interpretation of Findings
  • Observations
  • Conclusion and Recommendations
  • Implications for Practice
  • Knowledge Transfer Principles
  • Clinical Bottom Line
  • Limitations of Study
  • Future Research
  • Social Change
  • Post Research Perspective
  • Summary

Effective Techniques to Enhance Athletes’ Safety: Is Your Message Getting Through?

Delivery Type
$33

Description:

Recent developments within the sports medicine field to promote athlete safety includes education provided to athletic coaches, parents, and athletes at various levels of competition regarding serious sports related injuries, including sport-related concussions (SRCs). With the serious nature of these sports-related injuries, an incidence reduction of these injuries may occur with appropriate education to athletic personnel as well as implementation of safeguards throughout the health care process of the athlete. In this course, lecture will be implemented to achieve the stated objectives. The instructor will provide an overarching review of the literature as it pertains to effective techniques to enhance athletes’ safety which includes initial recognition of concussion injuries in youth athletes. As the literature and recommendations are reviewed to support the need to update mandatory educational programming for various audiences, the participants will reflect and critique their own educational plans to mitigate the risk of continued participation after serious sports injury and identify essential areas needing remediation in current educational programming.

Full Course Description
Recent developments within the sports medicine field to promote athlete safety includes education provided to athletic coaches, parents, and athletes at various levels of competition regarding serious sports related injuries, including sport-related concussions (SRCs). With the serious nature of these sports-related injuries, an incidence reduction of these injuries may occur with appropriate education to athletic personnel as well as implementation of safeguards throughout the health care process of the athlete. In this course, lecture will be implemented to achieve the stated...

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

Detection and management of concussion injuries may be improved through enrichment of educational modules and improvement of communication among healthcare professionals and coaches to allow for appropriate evidence-based decisions that may save an athlete’s life. As the literature and recommendations are reviewed to support the need to update mandatory educational programming for various audiences, the participants will reflect and critique their own educational plans to mitigate the risk of continued participation after serious sports injury and identify essential areas needing remediation in current educational programming.

Professional Objectives:

  1. Identify the need for effective education for all audiences to mitigate injury risk in absence of athletic trainer/health care professional.
  2. Locate essential areas often needing remediation during educational programs to improve injury recognition among youth athletes.
  3. Recognize appropriate and effective knowledge transfer techniques for various audiences to enhance injury reporting among youth athletes.
  4. Identify current educational programs for appropriate knowledge transfer techniques to reduce risk of continued participation after injury.
  5. Recognize the need to update mandatory educational programming on a regular basis toreduce risk of continued participation by athletes after injury.

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

Detection and management of concussion injuries may be improved through enrichment of educational modules and improvement of communication among healthcare professionals and coaches to allow for appropriate evidence-based decisions that may save an athlete’s life. As the literature and recommendations are reviewed to support the need to update mandatory educational programming for various audiences, the participants will reflect and critique their own educational plans to mitigate the risk of continued participation after serious sports injury and identify essential areas needing remediation in current educational programming.

Professional Objectives:

  1. Identify the need for effective education for all audiences to mitigate injury risk in absence of athletic trainer/health care professional.
  2. Locate essential areas often needing remediation during educational programs to improve injury recognition among youth athletes.
  3. Recognize appropriate and effective knowledge transfer techniques for various audiences to enhance injury reporting among youth athletes.
  4. Identify current educational programs for appropriate knowledge transfer techniques to reduce risk of continued participation after injury.
  5. Recognize the need to update mandatory educational programming on a regular basis toreduce risk of continued participation by athletes after injury.

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 4 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Certified Athletic Trainers 

Instructional Level: Intermediate

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.

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – JD Boudreaux is employed by MTS Physical Therapy and Wellness and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 4 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Certified Athletic Trainers 

Instructional Level: Intermediate

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.

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – JD Boudreaux is employed by MTS Physical Therapy and Wellness and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.