Sports Medicine Pathway

RCOE Sports Medicine 1 - 🙨  

Description: Students have the opportunity to prepare for jobs such as fitness/exercise assistant, physical therapy aide, or athletic trainer assistant. Students will learn anatomy and physiology, body mechanics, vital signs, first aid, nutrition, exercise physiology, injury care and maintenance, patient interaction skills, and use of equipment and techniques to aid patients in rehabilitation. Subject to an acceptable interview with a cooperating employer, students will train at a community location such as hospitals, clinics, sports/fitness facilities and convalescent care to practice and develop skills learned in the classroom. 

RCOE Advanced Sports Medicine (Formally called ROP Advanced Sports Therapy and Fitness)

Prerequisite: Sports Medicine 1

Description:  This rigorous competency-based course will provide students with foundational concepts in anatomy and physiology and integrate hands-on training in the specialized fields of sports medicine, physical therapy and fitness instruction.  Anatomy and physiology are utilized as the basic building blocks in understanding how the circle of care occurs within sports medicine.  The human body has many intricate parts with coordinated functions that are maintained by a complex system of checks and balances. Understanding the structure and function of the human body allows individuals in sports medicine to utilize concepts that are mastered within the course to solve routine and non-routine problems.  Students will be required to think critically, draw conclusions, investigate, and formulate a plan of action to determine a proper course of care and return the athlete safely to his or her activity.

*RCOE Sports Fitness Lab

Prerequisite: Sports Medicine 1 and Advanced Sports Medicine (or concurrently enrolled)

Description:  Extended time and credit in ROP Sports Medicine and Therapeutic Services.  This course may be taken concurrently with ROP Advanced Sports Medicine.

• This course is an internship class and therefore does not meet every day.  Students will work with the teacher who will assign the student specific event(s) or athletic team(s) to work with to earn hours as part of the class.  This may involve students being in class for 3-5 hours in a day and possibly some weekends. 

• This class may be taken concurrently with RCOE Advanced Sports Medicine but not prior to.