OVERVIEW

Sports activity, in addition to offering countless benefits from a metabolic, locomotor, and cardiovascular point of view, subjects the body to stress conditions and promotes the onset of pathologies, as well as aggravating pre-existing conditions. The role of sports medicine, a medical field with a distinctly preventive character, is to promptly identify all those conditions that represent contraindications for sports activity and to guide the athlete towards a type of activity that does not worsen their health status. In particular, the course will address the risks that the cardiovascular system of athletes may face and will illustrate the basic life support techniques necessary to handle cardiovascular emergencies. The pharmacological treatment of athletes is often essential but carries risks related to its misuse; this awareness must be part of the knowledge base of a graduate in Sports Science and Techniques.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The integrated course of "Medical aspects of sports performance 2" includes various specific courses (internal medicine, pharmacology, cardiology) and provides for the acquisition by the student of the CDS in sport sciences and techniques of the specific basics of the individual courses.

Therefore, the earning outcomes comprehend  the acquisition of the basic notions of the individual courses with particular attention to the methods of definition and attribution of sports suitability, to the definition and methods of ascertaining doping in sport, to cardiac activity during sports activities and to cardiological diseases that can limit the sporting activity itself.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

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PREREQUISITES

This course comprehends teachings about sport medicine, life support strategies, techniques of evaluation of cardiologic health in athletes, and pyharmacological  treatment pf sport-associated emergencies  emergenze associate allo sport. The comprehension of these topics requires a goord knowlwdge of basic concepts in human anatomy  and physiology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. 

TEACHING METHODS

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SYLLABUS/CONTENT

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RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

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TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ITALO PORTO (President)

STEFANO THELLUNG DE COURTELARY (President)

GIUSEPPE MURDACA (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

2nd semester, March.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

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ASSESSMENT METHODS

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, should contact the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to liaise and arrange the specific teaching methods so that the learning aims and outcomes may be met.