This eight-hour course serves as a combination of Sports First Aid course and Concussion Management workshop together in one day.
Sports First Aid course content:
The first component serves as an introduction to injury prevention and on-site management of sports related injuries. Topics covered include recognition and control of potentially hazardous situations, injury assessment and the handling of life-threatening situations, management of common injuries, referral patterns and development of a sports first-aid kit.
Concussion Mangement workshop:
The second component focuses on sharing the latest medical and scientific information about brain injury, sport risk factors, prevention techniques, and concussion management guidelines.
Participants will review the latest assessment tools, protocols and techniques including: the Concussion Assessment Tool, and Return To-Learn and Return to-Sport protocols.
* A certificate of comlpetion will be issued for both Sports First Aid and Concussion Management courses.
* Concussion Management completion is approved for BCRPA, CMTBC and NCCP Continuing Education credits.
Date: October 31, 2020
Time: 8:30am – 2:30pm
Location: Fortius Sport & Health Centre – Calgary Meeting Room
Registration Fee: $145.00 (+GST)