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Busy athletic trainers need access to convenient and accessible continuing education courses to stay current in the field and maintain their BOC certification. Human Kinetics online continuing education courses and exams provide BOC CEUs to meet your CEU requirements at your own pace. Choose from a broad selection of offerings that will meet your individual interests and education requirements, offered with ebooks or print books. Check out our top eight picks for athletic trainers below—all approved by BOC for continuing education credit.
Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy offers you a detailed look into some of the most common sport injury conditions and the best exercises to help prevent their occurrence, so you can help your clients perform with a reduced risk of injury.
Throughout the text, stunning full-color medical illustrations paired with the latest sport injury science guide you in reducing the likelihood of an injury before it happens.
Reduce the risk of common injuries like ACL tears, shoulder instability, concussions, and strains of the hamstring and low back. The book’s comprehensive coverage presents injuries by body segments—beginning with the head and neck and continuing all the way down through the lower leg and foot.
Run Healthy was written to help you distinguish discomfort from injury in your athletes. It provides the latest science-based and practical guidance for identifying, treating, and minimizing the most common injuries in track, road, and trail running.
When injuries inevitably happen, you’ll know how to identify them and help your athletes recover from them. Get targeted recommendations for some of the most common issues runners face, such as plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinitis, shin splints, hamstring tendinitis and tendinopathy, and IT band syndrome.
The NSCA—the world’s leading organization in the field of sport conditioning—offers you the evidence-based assessment tools, exercises, drills, and training regimens to help your athletes achieve that aim. Developing Agility and Quickness, Second Edition, provides more than 130 drills, 12 agility and quickness tests, and 15 sport-specific training plans to help foster peak sport performance.
Assessments for Sport and Athletic Performance guides you through the process of identifying appropriate tests for your athletes or clients, making use of common low-cost equipment to administer the tests, interpreting the data, adjusting training programs based on the results, and continually monitoring training.
This course offers a hands-on approach to helping clients and athletes enhance performance through PNF stretching techniques. Learn techniques for assessing current muscle function, improving range of motion, and increasing strength with a dynamic combination of photos, online video, and self-assessment tools.
Learn how to manipulate HIIT variables to maximize improvements in physical performance and incorporate HIIT into an athlete’s training program. With 20 sport-specific chapters written by elite coaches and practitioners, you will learn to apply HIIT to a variety of popular individual and team sports.
Whether you’re working with recreational exercisers or competitive athletes, The Athlete’s Guide to Diabetes has the training and performance advice you need to help your clients remain active while effectively managing type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
Referencing over 250 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, Running Mechanics and Gait Analysis provides a comprehensive review of the research and clinical concepts related to gait and injury analysis. Offering an expansive array of clinical applications, athletic trainers and physical therapists will come away with an understanding of ways to build on standard practice, while coaches and personal trainers will gain a new appreciation for the performance benefits that gait analysis can provide.
Early chapters introduce the basics of running-related injuries, foot mechanics, and shoe selection. The book then progresses to knee and hip mechanics, ways to influence gait mechanics, and technical aspects of video gait analysis. Using a detailed joint-by-joint analysis, the book pinpoints common problem areas for runners and describes protocols for treatment.