Kinesiology, Biomechanics, and Ergonomics for the Sport Safety Professional

Hours: 30 / Access Length: 3 Months / Delivery: Online, Live Mentored
Online Hours: 30
Retail Price: $499.00

Course Overview:

Injury is mechanical before it is medical. DAS-3 builds the biomechanical intelligence that transforms how the DAS reads a field - from watching bodies move to predicting which structures are at risk, why forces cause failure, and how to build the systems that stop it from happening.

Required Prerequisite: DAS-1: Athletic Safety and Risk Management and DAS-2: Athletic Safety and Risk Management

Course Outline:

Welcome & Course Introduction

Lesson 01: Biomechanics Fundamentals

Understanding the physics behind how athletes move - and why those forces cause injury when they exceed what the body can handle.

Lesson 02: Kinematics and Kinetics

Kinematics describes how the body moves. Kinetics explains why. Together they reveal the forces generated in every athletic action - and which structures pay the price.

Lesson 03: Sport-Specific Biomechanical Injury Patterns

Every sport creates predictable forces. Those forces produce predictable injuries - connecting Lessons 1 and 2 to real injury patterns across contact, overhead, rotational, and running sports.

Lesson 04: Tissue Mechanics

Every tissue in the body has a specific tolerance for force - and specific ways it fails. This is the biological explanation for every injury pattern seen in Lesson 3.

Lesson 05: Movement Screening and Biomechanical Risk Assessment

You cannot fix what you cannot see. Movement screening provides a structured, reproducible method for identifying biomechanical deficits before they become injuries.

Lesson 06: Load Management and Training Safety

The most common cause of overuse injury is too much load applied too fast without enough recovery - applicable from a youth baseball player to a professional distance runner.

Lesson 07: Ergonomics in Athletic Settings

Ergonomics is biomechanics applied to the work environment - and the DAS's workers include athletes, coaches, athletic trainers, and officials.

Lesson 08: Biomechanics of Protective Equipment

Protective equipment redistributes, absorbs, and reduces force. Understanding the physics of protection separates equipment selection from equipment guessing.

Lesson 09: Biomechanics of Acute Trauma

The force that loads a tissue tells you exactly how it will fail - and how you should respond. This Lesson translates the physics of acute trauma into field decisions.

Lesson 10: Trauma Response Through a Biomechanical Lens

The DAS who understands biomechanics does not just respond to injuries - they predict severity, prioritize assessment, and communicate mechanism with precision before touching the athlete.

Lesson 11: Injury Prevention Programming

You understand why injuries happen. This Lesson teaches how to systematically prevent them - using evidence, documentation, and the DAS standard for outcomes-tracked programming.

Lesson 12: Capstone: Biomechanics-Informed Injury Prevention Plan

If you understand how it moves, you can stop it from breaking. This Lesson is the answer - a complete, 8-section, legally defensible injury prevention plan for a real athletic program.

All necessary course materials are included.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.