Courses
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- Graded: A/F
This course will cover special topics in applied sport psychology and coaching.
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Designed for upper-level athletic training students who have completed a majority of program competencies and proficiencies and are ready to apply their skills in the field. This course is also appropriate for graduate-level students who are pursuing a career in the field of athletic training.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
This course will be presented in two units – a pathology unit and a pharmacology unit. The pathology unit will focus on the general medical conditions commonly seen in the field of athletic training including but not limited to asthma, diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, infectious disease, dermatological conditions, etc. In addition to sport injury pathology, recognizing various systemic diseases will also be covered. Pharmacological concepts will include drug legislation, drug forms and routes of administration. Terminology, prescription, systems of measurement and the various types of drugs used in the profession will be covered.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
Athletic trainers function within the context of a complex healthcare system. Students will demonstrate an understanding of risk management, legal considerations, governmental regulation, healthcare delivery mechanisms, insurance, reimbursement, documentation, patient privacy, human resources, and facility management. Further, the provision of high quality patient care requires that the athletic trainer maintain current competence in the constantly changing world of healthcare. Athletic trainers must also embrace the need to practice with the limits of state and national regulation using moral and ethical judgment. As a member of the broader healthcare community, athletic trainers work collaboratively with other healthcare providers and refer patients/clients when such referral is warranted.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Admission to the AT Master's program
Techniques used in the evaluation of athletic injuries to the foot, ankle, knee, hip and lower spinal region. Emphasis is placed on taking a medical history, performing a medical observation, physical palpation, functional and special testing, and injury pathology and injury epidemiology. Techniques and concepts are presented with a strong focus on the importance of the use of an evidence-based approach to orthopedic assessment practices.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: ATR 520
A Continuation of ATR 520 with an emphasis on the upper quadrant of the body including the hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, neck, head and trunk.
- Graded: A/F
- Co-requisites: ATR 542
Students will receive initial training in injury recognition, injury prevention, injury evaluation and injury treatment procedures. The focus with be on musculoskeletal injury, but will also cover such topics as physiology if injury, sport equipment fitting, risk management, etc.
- Graded: A/F
- Co-requisites: ATR 541
Students will learn and develop skills in orthopedic taping and bracing with specific emphasis on common techniques used in both the athletic and clinical settings. Student will practice application skills in a lab setting. Instruction will include, but not be limited to prophylactic techniques, casting/splint design for specific orthopedic injury, fitting and application of surgical braces, etc.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
The students use the principles of manual therapies to deepen their anatomical and biomechanical understanding of the human body. They will learn how to use this knowledge to assist their patients through manual therapy. Topics include muscle energy, kinesiotaping, instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization and cupping.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: ATR 521
This course will teach theory and hands-on skills necessary for the integration and application of therapeutic exercise into the treatment and rehabilitation protocols used by athletic trainers and other sports medicine professionals. This course will cover the use of (but not necessarily limited to) the following therapeutic interventions: Techniques to reduce pain, limit edema, restore joint mobility, restore muscle extensibility, restore neuromuscular function, improve strength, endurance, speed and power, improve balance, neuromuscular control, coordination and agility, improve gait, posture and body mechanics, improve cardiovascular fitness, understand functional exercises (eg: sports specific activity), develop exercises which comprise home based programs, utilize aquatic therapy rehabilitation techniques, etc..
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: This course should be taken in the final semester of the student's enrollment in the AT master's program.
This internship course is the final clinical placement experience course that students will take in their last semester of enrollment in the athletic training master’s program. This is an immersive internship allowing students to get the full experience of working in the field under the supervision of certified, licensed athletic trainer or other health care professional. Students will have the opportunity to seek out unique internship experiences anywhere in the U.S., with the assistance of the NMU AT faculty.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
This course will expose students to research concepts and provide students with the opportunity to engage in a collaborative research project with their peers. Students will learn formal IRB process and have the opportunity to submit their research to a professional conference and at various university scholarship venues.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: ATR 520
This course will teach theory and hands-on skills necessary for the integration and application of therapeutic modalities into the treatment and rehabilitation protocols used by athletic trainers and other sports medicine professionals. This course will cover the use of (but not necessarily limited to) the following modalities: ultrasound, electrical muscle stimulation, TENS, iontophoresis, laser, traction and other mechanical modalities, cryo/thermotherapy, hydrotherapy, diathermy, biofeedback, massage, etc.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
This course is designed to help students develop a clear understanding of the use of evidence based practice concepts in healthcare so that they may deliver the most effective patient care in the field. Students will engage in class activities that require them to search the literature for the most up to date, effective clinical practices and learn how to evaluate the research to determine and apply such concepts as specificity, sensitivity, diagnostic accuracy, clinical prediction rules, etc.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
This graduate seminar and capstone course will incorporate a comprehensive overview of nation position statements, white papers, etc. developed and implemented by the National Athletic Trainer’s Association and other relevant groups integral to the profession of athletic training in an effort to engage students in the preparation for the national board exam in athletic training. Students will prepare a comprehensive literature review on a contemporary sports medicine topic. Finally, this course will expose students to larger, more complicated and comprehensive, inter-professional case studies that will require deeper critical thinking and research.
- Graded: A/F
- Co-requisites: ATR 592A
- Prerequisites: ATR 520, ATR 521, ATR 522
This course will focus on the development of the hands-on clinical skills required by athletic trainers in areas related to clinical examination of pathologies affected the anatomical lower quarters of the body. Specifically, students will develop skills in palpation, manual muscle testing, stretching techniques, range of motion and goniometric assessment, etc.
- Graded: A/F
- Co-requisites: ATR 592B
- Prerequisites: ATR 591A
This course will focus on the development of the hands-on clinical skills required by athletic trainers in areas related to clinical examination of pathologies affecting the anatomical upper quarters of the body. Specifically, students will develop skills in palpation, manual muscle testing, stretching techniques, range of motion and goniometric assessment, etc.
- Graded: A/F
- Co-requisites: ATR 591A
- Prerequisites: ATR 541, ATR 542, ATR 520
This is the first clinical course in athletic training, in a series of three clinical courses. This course will focus on integrating the student into the athletic training clinical environment, under the supervision of an appropriate healthcare provider, allowing him/her opportunities to apply clinical skills to which they have been exposes thus far, in the “real world” environment. Students will specifically be able to apply skills related to those instructed in previous/concurrent ATR courses.
- Graded: A/F
- Co-requisites: ATR 591B
- Prerequisites: ATR 592A
This is the second clinical course in a series of three clinical courses. This course will focus on integrating the student into the athletic training clinical environment, under the supervision of an appropriate health care provider, allowing him/her opportunities to apply clinical skills to which they have been exposed to thus far in their didactic coursework. Students will specifically be able to apply skills related to those instructed in previous/concurrent ATR courses.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: ATR 592B
This is the third clinical course in a series of three clinical courses.This course will focus on integrating the studentinto the athletic training clinical environment, under the supervision of an appropriate health care provider, allowing him/her opportunities to apply clinical skills to which they have been exposed to thus far in their didactic coursework.Students will specifically be able to apply skills related to those instructed in previous/concurrent ATR courses.
- Prerequisites: BI 111 and 112, CH 112
The study of microbial population and community interactions. Microbial activities in natural systems and the interactions of microbes with plants and animals will also be studied. Laboratories consist of a mixture of microbiological techniques and independent research projects.
- Prerequisites: BI 203 or BI 303, or CLS 204 and CLS 214, and CH 220 or CH 322 or consent of instructor
An introductory course in virology integrating some of the biochemical, genetic and medical implications of viruses with general virology.
- Prerequisites: BI 203 or BI 303 or CLS 203 or CLS 213 and CH 220 or CH 325 or consent of instructor
An introduction to immunology, this course will consider basic immunological mechanisms including humoral and cell-mediated immunity, immunity of infectious disease, immunogenetics and tumor immunology.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: BI 111 and BI 218 or CH 450 or instructor's permission.
Structure and function of eukaryotic cells and organelles, with comparisons to selected features of prokaryotic cells. Topics include methods of study, compartmentalization of cells, cellular energetics, cell signaling, cytoskeletal proteins and the cell cycle. Laboratory work includes microscopy, tissue culture and isolation of cellular components.
- Prerequisites: BI 210 or consent of instructor
Lectures on the ecology of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Core subjects include biogeochemistry, community ecology and the ecological consequences of human activities, including exotic species introductions, environmental pollution and natural resource management practices.