Sports Medicine 1
The Sports Medicine I curriculum at Orange High School is designed for students interested in the career of athletic training. The primary focus will include, but not be limited to, the following topics: The Sports Medicine Team, organization and administration, injury prevention, physical training and conditioning techniques, nutritional considerations, protective sports equipment, psychology of sports injury/illness, mechanisms and characteristics of sports trauma, tissue response to injury, human anatomy, exercise physiology, biomechanics, kinesiology, CPR/bloodborne pathogens, injury assessment and evaluation, environmental concerns, basic taping and bandaging, explanations of therapeutic modalities, basic exercise rehabilitation, drug use/abuse in sports, and skin disorders.
(Prerequisite: Healthful Living)
(Prerequisite: Healthful Living)
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Sports Medicine 2
The Sports Medicine I curriculum at Orange High School is designed to educate students interested in fields such as athletic training, physical therapy, medicine, fitness, physiology of exercise, kinesiology, nutrition and other sports medicine fields. The main focus of this class is to introduce students to the science of human anatomy and physiology, various injuries of the body, and ways to care for these injuries.
(Prerequisite: Sports Medicine 1, Biology and prior approval of the instructor)
(Prerequisite: Sports Medicine 1, Biology and prior approval of the instructor)
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Sports Medicine 3 (Independent Study)
The Sports Medicine 3 curriculum at Orange High School is designed to give the sports medicine student a detailed examination of post-injury management techniques used by athletic trainers and physicians in management of orthopedic injuries. This curriculum will focus on surgical techniques and their implications on rehabilitation/activity and captures the totality of injury management including: pathology, immediate management, diagnostic imaging, definitive and differential diagnosis, medical management, medications, surgical intervention, post-injury and/or post-surgical management, and rehabilitation. The objective of Sports Medicine 3 is to apply skills learned from the Sports Medicine 1 & 2 class, while working independently developing Sports Medicine instructional materials and research projects. Students will attend class with the Sports Medicine 2 students while completing independent learning projects.
Students will be asked to assist in teaching various units and supervise Sports Medicine II lab activities.
(Prerequisite: Sports Medicine 1, Sports Medicine 2, Biology, and prior approval of the instructor. Taking anatomy before or along with this class is helpful, but not required)
Students will be asked to assist in teaching various units and supervise Sports Medicine II lab activities.
(Prerequisite: Sports Medicine 1, Sports Medicine 2, Biology, and prior approval of the instructor. Taking anatomy before or along with this class is helpful, but not required)
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Jack Cramer Scholarship (Sponsored by the NATA)
To be eligible students must:
- Be a senior in a secondary school
- Have established an overall minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 (based on a maximum of 4.0)
- Applied to a university offering an athletic training education program providing eligibility to sit for NATA BOC examination upon matriculation.
- Be sponsored by an Athletic Trainer who is a current member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) and is practicing within their state athletic training statutes if applicable.
- Have accumulated a minimum of 200 hours of observation in a secondary school athletic training room setting under the direct supervision of their sponsoring athletic trainer.
- Have established his/her intention to continue academic work to the baccalaureate degree level as a full-time undergraduate athletic training student.