Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Readaptation to Physical Activity and Sport
Other languages of instruction: English, Spanish
Teaching staff
Introduction
This course focuses on providing students with a broad introduction to the rehabilitation of athletes to physical activity and sports competition. While the course is specifically geared towards sports, its direct connection to the content covered in the first-year Therapeutic Exercise course also makes it applicable to individuals more involved in physical activity related to health prevention and improvement.
Rehabilitation is an area of knowledge that has seen significant development in recent years. Therefore, this course establishes the foundation for this field, allowing physiotherapy students to become familiar with this type of content should it become a relevant professional topic for them later in life.
Pre-course requirements
None established.
Syllabus
Content of theoretical classes.
1. Rehabilitation.
- Historical perspective.
- Relationship with therapeutic exercise and progression of the concept to current terminology.
2. Sports injuries.
- The concept of sports injury.
- An approach to injured tissues: the differences between joint injuries and muscle-tendon injuries.
- Injurious loads: reflection on the most common loads according to the type of tissue affected.
- Biomechanics of tissue injury.
3. The incidence of injuries in sports.
- The most common sports injuries. Examples from different sports.
- Characteristics of injuries.
4. Biomechanics of injury.
- Biomechanical description and relationship to the biomechanics of tissue injury.
- The most common actions: sports skills. Examples from different sports.
5. Risk factors for injury (RF).
- Classification of injury risk factors. Risk factors as control parameters in the evolution of a rehabilitation process.
- Structural risk factors.
- Neuromuscular risk factors.
- Other risk factors to consider.
5. Injury prevention and its link to the rehabilitation process.
- Prevention model.
6. Methodological foundations of rehabilitation.
- The integration of physical conditioning and basic sport skills.
- Progression towards sport-specific skills.
7. The complexity of sport. Invasive sports.
8. Foundations of rehabilitation after injury. Existing models in the literature.
9. Progression of rehabilitation towards the competitive environment.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
- Activity 1: Exam on Article 1 (related to the lectures).
- Activity 2: Exam on the protocol developed in the practical classes.
- Activity 3: Exam for the course.
- Activity 1 will account for 15% of the course grade.
- Activity 2 will account for 15% of the course grade.
- Activity 3 will account for 70% of the course grade.
In order to calculate the average of these grades and their respective percentages, it is important to note the following:
- Activities 1 and 2 do not require a minimum grade to be included in the average
- Activity 3 does require a minimum grade of 4 to be included in the average
Evaluation period
- E1 29/05/2026 A16 10:00h
- E1 29/05/2026 A14 10:00h
- E1 29/05/2026 G1 10:00h
- E2 03/07/2026 G1 10:00h
- E2 03/07/2026 A14 10:00h