Title: Describe the relationship between pre-existing conditions and injury prevention.
Course: Sports Medicine/Athletic Training II (Condensed) (14062-IIA) > Section: Preventing Injuries

Description should reflect the importance of taking a history, asking appropriate questions to determine pre-existing conditions, and documenting data. It should also describe how pre-existing conditions can lead to injuries and how knowledge of preexisting conditions can help prevent injuries.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What common pre-existing conditions can contribute to sports-related injuries?
- Does having a pre-existing injury mean that a person is unable to engage in sports? Why or why not?
- What questionnaires are available to assess pre-existing conditions?
- What are some relevant questions to ask when taking a thorough history?

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Chapter 16 Chronic Health Conditions and Physical or Functional Limitations

- Define and describe the cause and symptoms of selected chronic health conditions.
- Describe the characteristics of selected health and age-related physical and functional limitations to exercise.
- Recognize how the conditions discussed in this chapter affect exercise training variables within the OPT™ model.
- Recognize how acute and chronic responses to exercise vary in clients with chronic health conditions or physical or functional limitations compared with apparently healthy clients.
- Describe how to modify program design for clients with chronic health and physical or functional limitations.

Chapter 2 Basic Exercise Science

- Define the components of the human movement system (kinetic chain).
- Explain the basic structure and function of
  - the nervous system
  - the skeletal system
  - he muscular system
  - the endocrine system.
- Describe how these systems respond and adapt to exercise.

Chapter 3 The Cardiorespiratory System

- Describe the structure and function of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
- Explain how each of these systems relates to human movement.
- Describe how the cardiovascular and respiratory systems work in unison.
- Explain the influence that dysfunctional breathing can have on the human movement system.