Students learn about:

• Rehabilitation procedures
  • Progressive mobilisation
  • Graduated exercise (stretching, conditioning, total body fitness)
  • Training
  • Use of heat and cold
    
    
• Return to play
  • Indicators of readiness for return to play (pain free, degree of mobility)
  • Monitoring progress (pre-test and post test)
  • Psychological readiness
  • Specific warm-up procedures
  • Return to play policies and procedures
  • Ethical considerations, eg pressure to participate, use of painkillers.

Students learn to:

• Examine and justify rehabilitation procedures used for a range of specific injuries, eg hamstring tear, shoulder dislocation
• Research and evaluate skill and other physical tests that could be used to indicate readiness to return to play
• Critically examine policies and procedures that regulate the timing of return to play, considering questions such as:
  • Why aren’t such policies applied to all sports?
  • Who should have ultimate responsibility for deciding if an athlete returns to competition?
  • Should athletes be allowed to use painkillers in order to compete when injured?

Extract from PDHPE Stage 6 Syllabus. © 2009 Board of Studies NSW.