Sports Medicine Courses
Provides a practical application of athletic training knowledge and skills in the
training room setting. Students serve as student athletic trainers for WVC men's and
women's athletic teams. PEH 189 is intended for the first-year student athletic trainer
and should be repeated three times for credit (fall, winter and spring quarters).
Prerequisite: instructor permission only.
Investigates the relationship between physical activity and physiological processes.
Emphasis will be placed on the body's adaptation to strength training, cardiovascular
endurance, and neurological adaptations.
An introductory course to the field of athletic training. Will introduce prevention
and care of athletic injuries and illnesses. Emphasis is placed on managing and preventing
injuries common to an active lifestyle, including acute and overuse injuries.
Study of the musculoskeletal structure of the living human body, bones and their articulation,
segments and their movements, muscles and their attachments and actions, and systemic
nerves and their innervations and function. Special emphasis is placed on musculoskeletal
analysis of basic exercises and movement patterns.
Provides a practical application of athletic training knowledge and skills in the
training room setting. Students serve as student athletic trainers for WVC men's and
women's athletic teams. Intended for the second-year student athletic trainer and
should be repeated three times for credit (fall, winter and spring quarters). Prerequisite:
instructor's permission only.