Fitness/Sports Medicine
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Pathway Description
The Fitness/Sports Medicine Pathway imparts students with skills, knowledge, and experience in the areas of athletic physical therapy, training, nutrition, and fitness. It will focus on athletic perspective of anatomy and physiology of various muscle groups, the skeletal system, theory of exercise, care and prevention of athletic injuries, rehabilitation, training room organization, techniques for working with school athletes & athletic trainers, and various sports' referee credentials.
Fitness/Sports Medicine programs of study integrate academic and technical preparation and embeds relevant career exploration and work-based learning. Knowledge and skills are acquired in a sequential, standards-based series of courses that are delivered through hands-on, project-based instruction designed to prepare students for all levels of postsecondary study and advanced entry to a career.