Ithaca college athletic training program

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Life as an AT Major. Get a glimpse of how your four years as an Ithaca College athletic training major will unfold. Pursue Research Interests. See examples of collaborative work between faculty and students.

Featured News. Doubling Up. By Patrick Bohn, December 10, Sowing the Seeds of Connectivity. U 2 Credits. Examine various aspects of clinical practice common in active and athletic populations including pharmacology, dermatology, and diagnostic imaging.

Identify commonly used medications and differentiate various categories of pharmaceuticals used in athletic training. Explore and gain an understanding of diagnostic imagining techniques and laboratory testing. Describe and identify common dermatological conditions and treatment paradigms.

Addresses the organization and administration of health care delivery systems specific to athletic training. Emphasis on continual quality improvement, patient and clinical outcomes, payor systems and reimbursement, legal aspects, and operational management. Clinical milestones include execution of advanced competencies relative to clinical care and selection and application of therapeutic interventions, demonstration of evidence based practice, documentation, and professional behaviors.

Develop and apply clinical skills related to special populations, and the multidimensional aspects of health, wellness, and sport performance. S 2 Credits. Acquistion and application of essential theories, skills, and practices for the restoration of function and return to participation will be presented.

Emphasis will be placed upon therapeutic reasoning related to the dynamics of skill acquisition and rehabilitation of athletic injuries and conditions. Skill instruction and lab-based practice will be included to develop essential practical skills germane to therapeutic interventions for restoring functional performance and participation in physical activity.

Students will demonstrate increased autonomy and clinical capability across all domains of professional practice, demonstrating professional behaviors and communication. Includes 4 week, full time clinical immersion rotation either on or off campus.

S 5 Credits. This second course of a 3-semester clinical research sequence prepares students to be clinician-scientists by addressing key elements of clinical research in athletic training.

Students will continue work on a clinical research projects. This final course of a 3-semester clinical research sequence prepares students to be clinician-scientists by addressing key elements of clinical research in athletic training. Students will complete work on a clinical research project. Apply evidence-based theory and develop techniques concerning the assessment and treatment of the spine and peripheral joints.

Formulate and design rehabilitation interventions for athletes and active populations. Explains theories, skills, and techniques that impact the description, understanding, and enhancement of mental performance in sport and exercise. Utilizes lecture and cooperative learning strategies to better understand the theoretical perspectives and strategies that influence the mental performances of individual and team sport athletes and coaches.

F,Y 3 Credits. Design, create, and deliver educational workshops and performance enhancement programs implementing multiple techniques and strategies. Differentiate and explain specific mental performance perspectives.

Apply in a small group setting practical skills and strategies for enhancing sport and exercise performances in a cooperative learning and workshop environment. S,Y 3 Credits. Achieve awareness of diverse student-athletes experiences within sport settings. Contrast student-athlete development models and theories related to effective helping from a coaching perspective. Demonstrate helping concepts such as rapport building, basic listening and communication skills.

Focuses on an understanding of people and the interpersonal communication and leadership skills necessary for effective and cohesive team development. Stages of group development, barriers to change, and conflict resolution are discussed. SU 1 Credit. Focuses on an understanding of motivation and its importance to performance.

Various motivational approaches are discussed, with emphasis on influencing others toward goal adherence and attainment. SU 2 Credits. Focuses on personal factors and theoretical perspectives important to understanding exercise behavior. Topics include the mental health aspects of exercise, the biopsychology of stress and disease, the factors that influence exercise participation and adherence, theories of behavior change, interventions to change physical activity behavior, and the psychological factors related to perceived exertion.

Graduate students have additional workload and responsibilities. F, Y 3 Credits. Explore kinematic, kinetic, and musculoskeletal concepts at the core of human movement biomechanics. Examine biomechanics of select human movement skills focusing on current topics in running, lifting, jumping, landing and throwing.

Apply evidence based decision making to solve case studies and examples. This course requires the skills, knowledge, and experience gained in undergraduate biomechanics. The physiological mechanisms that regulate the body's responses and adaptations to exercise. Special physiological considerations of gender, development and aging, obesity, pregnancy, and environmental stress e. Popular pharmaceutical and dietary manipulations used to enhance exercise performance are discussed.

Experimental research in exercise physiology is introduced, and limited laboratory experiences are scheduled during class time. Prerequisites: One course in exercise physiology. S,F,Y 3 Credits. Examines the physiological mechanisms that may be altered in clinical populations, and the impact of these alterations on exercise.

An emphasis will be placed on understanding the etiology behind populations who have special considerations, such as people with chronic diseases, pregnant women, and people with physical and mental disabilities, as well as the implications for exercise training. Exploration of these clinical populations will occur through lecture and laboratory activities. Basic physiology and the typical response to exercise is reviewed. This course requires the skills, knowledge, and experience gained in an undergraduate exercise physiology course or equivalent.

Examine theoretical underpinnings of recent developments in areas of performance testing and athlete monitoring including technological advancements. Create sophisticated program designs incorporating basic and advanced periodization models. Explore the metabolic, muscular, cardiovascular, and pulmonary responses and adaptions to exercise in various environmental conditions and how they are coordinated intrinsically and extrinsically by the body.

Measure maximum aerobic and anaerobic power, and body composition. Check the reliability and validity of the measures with basic statistical analyses, including co-efficients of variation, correlations, and inferential statistics. Link various lab measures to lecture topics such as substrate selection and the cardiovascular and pulmonary responses to exercise.

This course requires the skills, knowledge, and experience gained in undergraduate exercise physiology course. Focuses on cardiovascular, pulmonary, thermoregulatory, immunological, and renal aspects of exercise, primarily addressing the physiological responses and adaptations these systems undergo with exercise.

Data collection using key pieces of laboratory equipment is integrated into the course. Prerequisites: Undergraduate exercise physiology course. S, Y 3 Credits. Analyze, manage, and interpret data to incorporate evidence based decision making in prescribing interventions. Team-taught survey of the physical functions that affect performance, physical abilities, and activities of daily living ADL in various populations.

Musculoskeletal function, coordination and motor skills behavior, and body composition are examined as they influence performance decrements, physical dysfunction, pain, and the ability to perform ADLs. Also examined are evaluations of physical function and alternative approaches to movement training so as to enable appropriate recommendation or referral.

Prerequisites: Undergraduate exercise physiology and biomechanics or kinesiology. Utilize 3D Motion Capture system to analyze and evaluate human movement for purposes of improving performance or function. Explore reliability, validity, and limitations to technology as an aid to movement assessment for practitioners and scientists. Perform analyzes, evaluate data, and communicate outcomes in written and oral formats. Prerequisites: ESSG IRR 3 Credits. Techniques for assessment of cardiovascular and pulmonary disease as well as functional capacity in these conditions.

Emphasis is placed on electrocardiography and maximal grades exercise testing. Other diagnostic techniques e. Discussion of the impact of assessment information and medications on appropriate exercise prescriptions. Material will help in meeting requirements for certification by outside agencies e. Credit may not be received for both this course and EXSS Study of the pathophysiology of disease and disabling states, the assessment of exercise potential, and the special considerations for the prescription of exercise in these cases.

Cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation and diabetic and special considerations for aging are discussed. Renal disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, brain disorders e. Prepares students for evidence based practice in sport and exercise psychology. Over the course of the last decade, we have painstakingly explored the evidence and reflected upon our experiences as clinicians and educators to design an intentional and dynamic curriculum centered upon clinical expertise, the medical mind, and deliberate practice.

Explore more deeply the athletic training curriculum:. This information outlines our graduate level, 5-semester sequencing of all athletic training didactic and experiential requirements for graduation. Currently, there are over Ithaca College athletic training graduates employed in various high school, college, and professional sports settings across the country. Numerous others are working in sports medicine clinics, hospitals, fitness centers, and even industrial settings treating the "industrial athlete.

Today, many of our graduates are using their demanding, medically based and hands-on experience opportunities to combine their athletic training preparation with advanced study in physical therapy, physician assistant studies, and even medical school. Program Overview for the Professional, Graduate Degree Program Years 4 and 5, along with one summer semester session between the 2 comprise our professional, graduate degree in Athletic Training.