Preventing, assessing and managing injury across the lifespan, from the young athlete to the athlete with a disability.
These are the statements the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education syllabus makes about Option: Sports Medicine. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Classifying injuries and applying TOTAPS and RICER appropriately, including when each is and is not indicated.
Growth, maturation and the risks of early specialisation, and how training should differ for a developing body.
Physiological change with age and the training adjustments that keep participation safe and effective.
Classification, adapted equipment and the difference between integration and genuine inclusion.
Immediate management and return-to-play decisions, and the risk of returning before tissue has healed.
HSC PDHPE - Trial Paper Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Option: Sports Medicine are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Personal Development, Health and Physical Education uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Option: Sports Medicine is module 3 of 4 in Personal Development, Health and Physical Education. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Personal Development, Health and Physical Education dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.