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EXSS2039: Sport Injury Epidemiology and Mechanisms
2024 unit information
Athletic endeavours are often accompanied by sport-related injuries. This unit will provide students with an understanding of the complex and multifactorial nature of sports injuries as the keystone to establishing effective injury prevention programs. Key topics in this unit will provide an understanding of injury causation, of intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors (such as training loads, overtraining, fatigue and wellness influences) and their inter-relationship and contribution to injury incident, and examine mechanisms leading to injury. This unit will present the fundamental aspects of injury epidemiology by exploring injury definitions, and the injury indices of type, location, mechanism, severity, and incidence. Injury surveillance paradigms and risk factor analyses and statistical methods will also be investigated through analysing students own collected data or data from other sources.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Movement Sciences
| Code | EXSS2039 |
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| Academic unit | Movement Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Discuss intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors associated with sports injuries in specific sport contexts
- LO2. Critically evaluate internal and external measures of training load, overtraining, fatigue and sleep measures and their association with sporting injuries
- LO3. Analyse sport contexts associated with injury types and their associated mechanisms
- LO4. Critically evaluate injury definitions with associated problems and components of an effective injury surveillance paradigm
- LO5. Calculate and use injury epidemiology metrics and appropriate risk factor analyses
- LO6. Apply an injury surveillance strategy in a sporting context
- LO7. Report on injury surveillance to sport stakeholders
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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