Bachelor of Applied Health Science - Athletic Therapy (Honours) (PBAHS)

Program Description In Sheridan College Bachelor of Applied Health Sciences - Athletic Therapy program was designed to provide students with the skills they need to become a certified athletic therapist.

Throughout this program, students will gain: • Advanced athletic therapy skills such as field assessment and injury treatment, clinical assessment and rehabilitation. • Entrepreneurial business skills to help students establish a practice. • Research skills to ensure students always stay current in the field.

Graduates of this program will have demonstrated the ability to: • Develop a comprehensive athletic injury/illness prevention program for the active individual. • Assess the nature of injuries and illnesses commonly sustained by active individuals using relevant theory and practices while in compliance with current standards and established policies. • Determine appropriate treatment for injured active individuals, based on findings from the assessment. • Provide appropriate first aid and emergency care for acute musculoskeletal injuries or illnesses in compliance with current professional standards and established policies and procedures. • Create comprehensive rehabilitation and reconditioning programs for injuries or physical limitations sustained by the active population to ensure a full return to productivity and an active lifestyle. • Oversee administrative components of an athletic therapy practice. • Recommend health care information, education and counselling to active individuals, parents and coaches on matters pertaining to the physical, psychological, and emotional health and well being of the individual. • Communicate effectively verbally, nonverbally, and in written form in a variety of organizational settings. • Interact as an integral part of the sports medicine team in the management of the injured active population. • Conduct professional practice that is in compliance with the CATA Code of Ethics and Scope of Practice in a legal and ethical manner. • Integrate the principles of research including the collection and analysis of information to form reasoned conclusions. • Describe the normal physiological functions of the human body. • Examine key structures of the human biological systems.