Acquire the latest techniques specific to spinal sports injuries, as well as the skills and attitudes for their practical application in a degree created for excellence”

This program compiles several topics that are not usually grouped together in other master's degrees on sport and that offer guidance from a global and updated approach, both athlete health assessments and the diagnosis and comprehensive treatment of sports injuries. The objective of prevention and early reincorporation to sporting activity is also of special relevance, thanks to the latest advances that are taking place, especially at the therapeutic level. Another objective will be to consider the most current lines of research.

Moreover, an entire module is devoted to specific sports that, at present, are part of everyday life, such as soccer, cycling, swimming, tennis or basketball. It also addresses sport in specific situations such as cancer, diabetes, frailty or COVID-19, as well as the particularities women or children's sports. All this without omitting adapted sports, which include very specific aspects for people with disabilities and that are generally not covered in other programs.

The most important value of this professional master’s degree is its up-to-date vision of Sports Medicine. Therefore, we have selected a new and ambitious syllabus that encompasses the most relevant aspects of current sports medicine from a broad and diverse perspective. TECH has a panel of experts from different medical specialties (rehabilitation physicians, sports physicians, traumatologists, cardiologists, radiologists) and professionals in the field of physiotherapy, nutrition and psychology, who give this program an interdisciplinary character.

Furthermore, being an online degree, doctors are not conditioned by fixed schedules or the need to move to another physical location. They will be able to access the contents at any time of the day, thereby balancing their work and personal life with their academic life and ensuring a comprehensive update.

Learn about the latest advances in adapted sports to be able to continue carrying out quality praxis”

This professional master’s degree in Sports Medicine contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include: 

• Practical cases presented by experts in Sports medicine
  
• The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
  
• Practical exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
  
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
  
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
  
• Access to content from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

This degree is the best investment you can make in selecting a refresher program to update your knowledge of upper and lower limb sports injuries”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from sector who contribute their work experience to this training program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive training programmed to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the academic year. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.

TECH offers you a 100% online study opportunity, as comprehensive as possible and continuously linked to current events"

Deepen your knowledge and catch up on the latest studies in doping and nutrition in sport"

The main program objective is to develop theoretical and practical learning, so that physicians can master Sports Medicine in the most real, rigorous and updated way possible. Consequently, professionals will perform comprehensive patient management, make accurate diagnosis and implement the most appropriate therapy, always using the latest techniques available on the market, and thus positioning themselves at the forefront of the field.

This professional master’s degree will allow you to update your knowledge in Sports Medicine with the use of the latest technology, to contribute quality and confidence to decision making”

General Objectives

• Study the different injuries that can occur in different sports
  
• Know the most frequent upper limb pathologies in athletes
  
• Explore the radiological findings for upper limb pathologies
  
• Know the most frequent lower limb injuries in athletes, their etiology and injury mechanisms
  
• Learn how to perform correct clinical assessments
  
• Know the most effective diagnostic methods and treatment options
  
• Know different situations in which exercise and sport have differential aspects from the general population
  
• Know the benefits and risks of sport in certain diseases
  
• Explore the different therapeutic modalities to prevent and treat sports injuries, their indications and benefits
  
• Acquire more specific and current knowledge in the field of sports nutrition and dietetics for specific cases of sports activity and sports nutritional supplementation
  
• Gain in-depth knowledge of the meaning of doping, its origins, doping substances and their consequences on health, detection techniques, legal bases of regulation and the methods to fight against it, as well as its prevention strategies

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Sports Injuries

• Know how to differentiate types of sports injuries, a key aspect for an accurate diagnosis and therapeutic approach
  
• Determine the causes of sports injuries and their possible production mechanisms
  
• Manage the different phases in sports injuries
  
• Learn what a sports injury prevention program consists of
  
• Know the physiology of the different systems involved in physical exercise and their relevance in sports injuries
  
• Gain a deep understanding of the lactate metabolism and the new approaches to interpreting its functions

Module 2. Athlete Assessment 

• Know the clinical and functional tests to be performed on athletes
  
• Explore the mechanisms of strength, speed, power and physical condition production in athletes and their performance
  
• Know the main imaging tests that can be performed on athletes
  
• Explore the main specific functional tests to rule out pathologies in athletes and to adapt the types of training

Module 3. Injuries and Sport

• Know the epidemiological data of different injuries according to sport and their relevance in daily practice
  
• Perform correct explorations for musculoskeletal pathologies in the different sports covered in the topics
  
• Know the most prevalent and most severe injuries and establish recovery times
  
• Learn how to request the correct imaging tests for each type of injury
  
• Explore how to identify when to resume sport activity
  
• Delve into the basics of optimal physical training
  
• Update on the effects of hormones on athletes' return to sporting activity
  
• Learn how to carry out nutritional interventions on athletes

Module 4. Upper Limb Sports Injuries

• Adapt sports activity to upper limb injuries
• Adapt exercise for athlete recovery from upper limb injuries

Module 5. Lower Limb Sports Injuries

• Know how to perform the most useful physical examination maneuvers
  
• Explore radiological findings for lower limb pathologies
  
• Know how to establish injury prognosis
  
• Know how to adapt sport activity to lower limb injuries
  
• Know how to adapt exercise for athlete recovery from lower limb injuries

Module 6. Spinal Sports Injuries

• Know spinal injury biomechanics in athletes Injury-inducing movements: How to train the athlete to avoid them and, according to the location and characteristics of the pain, which segment or structure to think about at the time of diagnosis
• Distinguish which sports can produce a negative evolution of vertebral deformities and which combinations between deformity and specific sport present a greater tendency toward spinal injuries or pain
• Investigate what real benefit can be expected from new therapeutic alternatives that promise rapid recovery from injuries or the disappearance of spinal pain where classical treatments have failed

Módulo 7. Deporte en situaciones específicas

• Saber las indicaciones y contraindicaciones del ejercicio en estas poblaciones específicas
• Ahondar en los tratamientos médicos empleados habitualmente en patologías específicas
• Saber cuándo hay que derivar al deportista a un médico especialista
• Profundizar en los programas de entrenamiento específicos

Module 8. Therapeutic Management of Sports Injuries

• Know the indications and contraindications of the different therapeutic options studied
  
• Explore the expected effects of each one of them as well as possible complications
  
• Enter the world of new technologies in the field of sports
  
• Know how to handle the high demands of professional or high-performance sports

Module 9. Doping and Nutrition in Sport

• Apply the knowledge acquired in multiple work areas such as: medical assistance, anti-doping institutions, clubs, associations, sports federations, sports medicine centers, lawyers who work with athletes and pharmacists who work with the public

Module 10. Adapted Sports and Disability

• Know the indications and contraindications of exercise in these athletes
  
• Know the specific needs for sports performance in athletes with disabilities
  
• Deepen the knowledge of sports performance in people with disabilities

Take the step as a physician to get up to speed on the latest developments in the therapeutic management of sports injuries”