Overview
In this unit, you will focus on examining, diagnosing and managing common sports injury related conditions. You will advance your understanding in a range of management topics related to the athletic population including injury prevention, advice on healthy lifestyles, self-managed care, rehabilitation, and treatment options. This unit will assist you with your clinical development in the student clinic by addressing the importance of integrating knowledge and skills to support clinical decision-making for this special population.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-Requisite: CHIR20009 Clinical Practice 4 and CHIR20010 Advanced Clinical Development 1 Co-requisite: CHIR20011 Clinical Practice 5
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2022
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Have your say
Students on COVID-19 impacted campuses were disappointed that the practical components could not be delivered earlier.
It is recommended that practical components continue to be offered and provided as part of this unit. The content was delivered once the Government restrictions were lifted.
Feedback from Have your say
Some students would have preferred to have their written assessments marks back before going into the end of term test.
In future offerings, it is recommended that written assessments be scheduled (and due) a few weeks earlier than present, so marks can be returned to students prior to the final tests.
Feedback from Have your say
Some students felt that they would have benefited from a more clinical focus to the unit with less research.
It is recommended that research related to this unit is integrated further into management and care planning, therefore providing greater clinical relevance.
- Explain the relationship between normal and abnormal morphology of a clinical condition according to its aetiology, epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment options
- Interpret findings and formulate a diagnosis, clinical impression, management plan and prognosis from a case history and physical assessment, taking into consideration patient safety and any contraindications
- Apply the appropriate chiropractic approach to treatment (within the scope of practice) that includes technique/skills, exercise/rehabilitation, health promotion, prevention, lifestyle advice and self-managed care in a professional and ethical way in accordance to the chiropractic code of conduct and professional standards
This is a specific exposure unit to assist the student develop their individualised pathway towards strengthening the majority of elements and performance indicators of CCEA’s Accreditation Standards: Unit 6 Patient Assessment, Unit 7 Diagnostic Decision Making, Unit 8 Planning of Patient Care, Unit 9 Implementation of Care, and Unit 3 Professional Interaction. There will be some elements addressed from Unit 10 Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and Unit 11 Professional Scientific Development.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 25% | |||
| 2 - Presentation - 25% | |||
| 3 - Online Test - 50% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | |||
| 2 - Communication | |||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | |||
| 4 - Research | |||
| 5 - Self-management | |||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | |||
| 7 - Leadership | |||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||
Textbooks
Brukner & Khan’s clinical sports medicine: injuries
Edition: 5th (2017)
Authors: Brukner and Khan (and 8 others)
ISBN: 9781760421663
Binding: Hardcover
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing styles below:
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
m.fernandez@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Lectures and Tutorial:
Sport and Exercise Medicine Introduction
Concussion
Neck pain
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture and Tutorial:
Upper limb injuries
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture and Tutorial:
Trunk, abdominal and thoracic spine injuries
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture and Tutorial:
Lumbar spine and pelvic injuries
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture and Tutorial:
Lower limb injuries
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture and Tutorial:
Return to sport
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Mid-term quiz, Friday August 26, opens at 12pm
Mid-term quiz Due: Week 6 Friday (26 Aug 2022) 5:00 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Lectures and Tutorial:
Heat acclimatisation in (elite) athletes
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lectures and Tutorial:
Mental health in athletes
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lectures and Tutorial:
Paediatric sports injuries
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Sports Medicine Workshop (TBC)
Module/Topic
Lectures and Tutorial:
Masters athletes
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lectures and Tutorial:
Disabled athletes
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lectures and Tutorial:
Injury prevention
Chapter
Lecture notes
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
There will be a compulsory practical component in the form of a workshop as part of this unit similar to ACD1 in term 1, details will be provided as early as possible for students with at least 4 weeks notice provided.
1 Online Quiz(zes)
The mid-term online quiz will be taken in Moodle and will open on Friday, August 26 at 12pm in week 6. The quiz will involve a mix of question types including multiple choice, short answer and matching styles. There will be a short answer questions as well. The quiz will assess content taught across weeks 1-5 (not including week 6). The quiz is worth 30% of your total grade.
1
Other
Week 6 Friday (26 Aug 2022) 5:00 pm AEST
The quiz will open in Mooodle at 12pm on Friday August 26th.
Week 7 Friday (2 Sept 2022)
via Moodle
The assessment criteria will involve selecting or providing the most accurate and correct answers to the questions posed in this mid-term online quiz.
- Explain the relationship between normal and abnormal morphology of a clinical condition according to its aetiology, epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment options
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Written Assessment
Written assessment worth 40% of your grade (20% workshop participation and notes, 20% final report)
Part A
You will be required to attend a scheduled Sports Medicine workshop, it is expected that you will take notes about the different scenarios discussed and presented. You should make notes about how you would communicate your new understanding to patients and how your new knowledge could be applied to your own practice or patients.
Part B
Referring back to your notes from the workshop, write a reflective report to analyze the workshop that you participated in. You will be given the opportunity to highlight your own experiences and opinions in a critical way. Please consider some of the basic elements of reflective reporting below (to maximize the reflective experience):
1. Organised account
Allow your reader to experience the event you attended. Ensure that you organize your ideas, elaborating on the series of events in a chronological order that took place. Consider making an outline, so that it makes sense to the reader.
2. Personal reflection
This report is about how you felt during the event, i.e., how you saw things, what was the impact, did anything change for you etc. This is a personal account of the event; hence you need to look back at it and express your views, talking about the things that affected your clinical understanding and not what affected anyone else.
3. Emphasise details
Be mindful of including adequate details. Paint a picture with your words so that whoever is reading it can really “see” what was going on. You can add a lot of detail to your piece, by citing relevant literature to emphasize key points.
Reflective reports should contain a good level of critical analysis. This will make it easier for your reader to picture what happened. Please keep your report to 500 words (+/- 10%), which will be submitted by the end of Week 10.
Week 10 Friday (23 Sept 2022) 12:00 pm AEST
Submit your notes from the workshop and your reflective report via Moodle
Week 12 Friday (7 Oct 2022)
via Moodle
The assessment task will be assessed using the following criteria:
- demonstration of knowledge gained in relation to approaching and managing a patient presenting with sports related complaints.
- applying an awareness of biopsychosocial models of care when forming a treatment plan and considering how to communicate this information to a patient.
- developing a report that captures transformative understanding of clinical reasoning and management.
There will be a detailed rubric supplied in Moodle.
- Interpret findings and formulate a diagnosis, clinical impression, management plan and prognosis from a case history and physical assessment, taking into consideration patient safety and any contraindications
- Apply the appropriate chiropractic approach to treatment (within the scope of practice) that includes technique/skills, exercise/rehabilitation, health promotion, prevention, lifestyle advice and self-managed care in a professional and ethical way in accordance to the chiropractic code of conduct and professional standards
- Apply humanistic factors involving communication skills and bio-psychosocial awareness, relative to the patient-practitioner interface.
- Knowledge
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
3 Online Test
This end of term test will be undertaken in a CQUni computer lab on whichever campus that you are enrolled. The test will involve a mix of question types including multiple choice, short answer and matching styles. There will be a short answer questions as well. The test will assess all theoretical content taught across weeks 1-12. The test is worth 30% of your total grade.
Review/Exam Week Tuesday (11 Oct 2022) 11:00 am AEST
This test opens at 9am and will be submitted/due at 11am.
Exam Week Friday (21 Oct 2022)
The assessment criteria will involve selecting or providing the most accurate and correct answers to the questions posed in this end of term test.
- Explain the relationship between normal and abnormal morphology of a clinical condition according to its aetiology, epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment options
- Interpret findings and formulate a diagnosis, clinical impression, management plan and prognosis from a case history and physical assessment, taking into consideration patient safety and any contraindications
- Apply the appropriate chiropractic approach to treatment (within the scope of practice) that includes technique/skills, exercise/rehabilitation, health promotion, prevention, lifestyle advice and self-managed care in a professional and ethical way in accordance to the chiropractic code of conduct and professional standards
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Research
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
