Professional Diploma in Health and Performance in Sport

MODULE 1: Management of medical pathology 1
MODULE 2: Management of medical pathology 2
MODULE 3: Sports Specific pathologies
MODULE 4: Special sports and competitions

MODULE 1: Prevention of and readaptation from injuries
MODULE 2: Muscle injury and tendinitis management
MODULE 3: Management of joint and bone injury
MODULE 4: Decision making and returning to competition

MODULE 1: Basic concepts in epidemiology and injury prevention
MODULE 2: Muscle injury prevention
MODULE 3: Prevention of joint injuries
Module 4: Integrative reading

MODULE 1: Characteristics of the musculoskeletal system.
MODULE 2: Muscle action and its relationship to sports.
MODULE 3: Systemic changes in detraining and immobilization.
MODULE 4: Assessment of muscular properties in relation to sport.

MODULE 1: Analysis of injury in sports: injury mechanisms and associated risk factors.
MODULE 2: Sports injuries and their relationship with the quality of strength.
MODULE 3: Strength manifestations and muscle power in the post-injury rehabilitation process.
MODULE 4: New paradigms in strength training: muscle building through vascular occlusion.

Module 1: Force platform testing fundamentals
Module 2: CMJ understanding variables and phases
Module 3: Kinematics introduction
Module 4: Upper Limb Assessment

Module 1: Kinetics in ACL injury risk and rehabilitation (Isokinetics)
Module 2: Kinetics in ACL injury and rehabilitation (Jump-land testing)
Module 3: Kinematics in ACL injury risk and rehabilitation
Module 4: Kinetics & kinematics in lower limb muscle and tendon injury and
rehabilitation-patella and Achilles tendon, groin, hamstring

Module 1: Additional lower limb dynamic tests (squat jump, drop jump, squat, land & hold).
Module 2: Lower Limb Isometric Tests
Module 3: A framework and toolbox for kinetics and kinematics in rehabilitation and Return to Sport
Module 4: A framework and toolbox for short term load-response monitoring and evaluating chronic adaptations

MODULE 1: The history and future of sports nutrition
MODULE 2: What it takes to be effective in sports nutrition
MODULE 3: Supplements versus foods
MODULE 4: Immune system

MODULE 1: Psychological needs
MODULE 2: Activation-relaxation and Visualization Techniques
MODULE 3: Thought control, routines, self-talk, biofeedback
MODULE 4: Assessment techniques in sports psychology