Curso de Readaptación Deportiva draft

Program Overview

This 10-month program in Sports Rehabilitation provides in-depth knowledge of the body's functioning during sports training, injury recovery, and rehabilitation. It equips students with skills to design personalized plans, lead training sessions, and implement prevention and rehabilitation processes tailored to individual needs, including various populations with unique characteristics. Graduates are qualified for careers in prevention, training, and sports rehabilitation, collaborating with healthcare professionals to enhance athlete health.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Curso en Readaptación Deportiva is a 10-month university program designed to provide professionals with a deep understanding of the body's functioning during sports training, recovery from injuries, and rehabilitation. This program equips students with the necessary skills to design personalized plans, lead training sessions, and implement prevention and sports rehabilitation processes in the fields of fitness, sports, and high performance, tailored to individual needs.

Objectives:

The program aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills to:

• Design intervention strategies in the areas of prevention, training, and sports rehabilitation.
• Understand and contextualize the biological bases that govern the adaptations inherent to sports training and rehabilitation processes.
• Know and utilize data from assessments of conditional capacities and their expressions to optimize intervention strategies in prevention, training, and sports rehabilitation processes.
• Design intervention strategies catering to different types of populations with unique characteristics.
• Understand the relationship between different nutritional strategies in the context of prevention, training, and sports rehabilitation as a means of optimizing intervention strategies.
• Manage socio-affective skills during professional performance.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals to enhance efficiency in designing prevention, training, and sports rehabilitation strategies.

Outline:

The program is structured into 14 modules:

• Physiological adaptations to physical exercise.
• Anatomy for movement and sports performance.
• Biomechanics applied to sports training and injury prevention.

Module II: Research Methodology and Related Resources

Module III: Basic Concepts in Sports and Health Planning

• Benefits and risks of sports activity.
• Sports activity in relation to the athlete's health.

Module IV: Planning, Assessment, and Control of Sports Training

• Methodological bases of planning the training process.
• Design of intervention strategies by levels of approximation.
• Basic notions about biological markers and training control.
• Evaluation of body posture.
• EMG, prevention, and prescription of training.
• TMG, prevention, and prescription of training.
• Assessment tools in the healthcare environment.
• Low-cost assessment tools for prevention and prescription of training.
• Encoders, biofeedback, assessment, and force management.
• Anthropometry and physical activity.
• Task design.

Module V: Conditional Capacities in Training and Prevention

• Strength training.
• Endurance training.
• Speed, agility, and frequency training.
• Range of motion and flexibility training.
• Somatosensory training.
• Intervention in training categories.
• Intervention with older adults.
• Physical activity and special populations.

Module VII: New Trends in Sports Training

• Rotational dynamic stability.
• Mechanical vibrations.
• Pelvic floor training.
• Combined training.
• CORE work.
• RSA and RPA.
• Elastic training.
• Inertial technology, prevention, training, and rehabilitation.
• New trends in recovery strategies.

Module VIII: Nutrition and Sports Training

• Basic nutrition concepts.
• Ergogenic and nutritional aids in performance.
• Ergogenic and nutritional aids in the recovery process.
• Ergogenic and nutritional aids in injury rehabilitation.
• New trends in nutrition.

Module IX: Sports Injury Prevention

• Risk factors and injury prevention.
• Injury prevention and conditional capacities.
• Task design and injury prevention.

Module X: Sports Injury Rehabilitation, Basic Concepts

• Bone injuries.
• Muscle injuries.
• Joint injuries.
• Tendon injuries.
• Tissue recovery times.
• Etiopathology of the most common sports injuries.

Module XI: Sports Rehabilitation Process

• Planning the sports rehabilitation process.
• Tools for optimizing the sports rehabilitation process.
• Task design and rehabilitation.

Module XII: Socio-affective Skills in Professional Performance

• Introduction to psychology in sports training and rehabilitation processes.

Module XIII: Management and Viability of Professional Activity

• Legal aspects and professional performance.
• Critical analysis and business viability plan.

Module XIV: Master's Thesis

• Introduction to the Master's Thesis.
• Development of the Master's Thesis.
• Presentation and defense of the Master's Thesis.

Teaching:

• The program is taught by a team of experienced professionals who bring their real-world experience to the classroom.
• 61% of the professors in this program hold doctorate degrees.
• The program emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together professionals from different areas of knowledge to work collaboratively towards the athlete's health.

Careers:

Upon completion of the program, students will be qualified to:

• Design intervention strategies in the areas of prevention, training, and sports rehabilitation.
• Work in synergy with healthcare professionals to enhance efficiency in designing prevention, training, and sports rehabilitation strategies.
• Design intervention strategies catering to different types of populations with unique characteristics.

Other:

• The program is offered in Santa Cruz and La Orotava.
• The program is taught in Spanish.
• The program is a 15 ECTS program.
• The program starts on October 18, 2024.
• The program is offered by the Universidad Europea de Canarias.
• The program is a 10-month program.
• The program is offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences.
• The program is a self-funded program.
• The program leads to a Diploma of Expert in Training and Sports Rehabilitation.
• The program includes practical experience in companies.
• The program has a 96% employability rate.
• The program has a 15% entrepreneurship rate.
• The program has 3,600 agreements with companies for internships.
• The program has a strong emphasis on research and innovation.
• The program is designed to prepare students for a successful career in the field of sports rehabilitation.