EXPH12-112: Assessment, Prescription and Delivery of Exercise 3

Description

This subject delivers an elite specialisation in¿Sports and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, integrating the diagnostic rigor of¿physiotherapy with the performance-based principles of exercise¿physiology. Students will master comprehensive assessment and differential diagnosis of the spine and limbs for athletes across the participation spectrum—from community-level juniors to elite professionals. The curriculum focuses on designing and implementing criteria-based rehabilitation programs that progress athletes from acute injury management to a robust Return to Performance. Through intensive "Deliberate Practice" labs, students develop the precise manual assessment skills and advanced programming logic required to excel in high-performance, multidisciplinary sports medicine teams.¿

Subject details

Type: Undergraduate Subject
Code: EXPH12-112
Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine
Credit: 10
Study areas:
  • Health, Biomedical, and Sport Sciences

Learning outcomes

  1. Design stage-specific, criteria-based rehabilitation programs for athletes across the participation spectrum, by integrating advanced tissue mechanobiology, pain neuroscience, and biopsychosocial frameworks.
  2. Perform musculoskeletal assessments with technical precision to differentiate sports-related pathology and inform exercise prescription.
  3. Appraise red flags, yellow flags, and adverse neural tension to determine escalation pathways, making defensible scope-of-practice decisions in acute on-field and sub-acute clinical presentations.
  4. Implement criteria-based progression from acute injury management to sport-specific re-loading using validated outcome measures and objective exit criteria.
  5. Justify ‘Return to Performance’ decisions using multi-modal testing batteries and clinical reasoning defensible to interprofessional stakeholders.

Enrolment requirements

Requisites:

Pre-requisites:

Co-requisites:

There are no co-requisites
Restrictions: This subject is not available to
  • Study Abroad Students

This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure.