Advanced Sports Medicine

Prerequisite: Successful completion of Pre-Sports Medicine or Pre-Medicine (73% or higher every marking period) at LCTC with a recommendation from your LCTC medical teacher.

Upon recommendation of the first-year health science teacher, students may return for the second year of advanced sports medicine curriculum. This course will dive more deeply into different careers involved in sports medicine, the specifics of becoming and working as an athletic trainer, emergency preparedness, sports nutrition, hands-on assessment and evaluation of athletic injuries, rehabilitation and modalities, taping and wrapping, kinesiology, and an in-depth focus into the anatomy, physiology and common sports injuries associated with the different body joints and regions.