Tim specializes in sports medicine. He helps people avoid injury, get back to play after an injury, or improve their sports performance. Find out what’s involved in a career like his.
This video resource gives students a quick overview of the cardiac rehabilitation profession. A cardiac rehabilitation team can consist of many professionals, including those employed as exercise specialists. Heart patients are benefiting from amazing advances in technology, surgery, and treatments. At Mayo Clinic, 75% of them also take advantage of a way to help them recover better and live longer – cardiac rehabilitation.
This video describes the role and career possibilities of dieticians.
This website may be useful to identify benefits and resources for fitness-related careers such as physical trainers, nutritionists, youth fitness professionals, functional aging specialists, etc.
In this short video, students will learn about the roles and responsibilities of sports officials and referees.
In this short video, students will learn about the roles and responsbilities of an athletic trainer.
In this short video, students will learn about the duties of exercise physiologists. An exercise physiologist's job is to assess, plan, or implement fitness programs that include exercise or physical activities such as those designed to improve cardiorespiratory function, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, or flexibility.
In this short video, students will learn about a career as a recreation worker. Recreation workers conduct recreation activities with groups in public, private, or volunteer agencies or recreation facilities. They organize and promote activities, such as arts and crafts, sports, games, music, dramatics, social recreation, camping, and hobbies, taking into account the needs and interests of individual members.
This resource lists many frequently asked questions about the field of kinesiology. Listed in interview style, these questions could be used to ask a professional about their experiences or can be read as a way to better understand the field.
Kinesiology is the scientific study of human or non-human body movement. Kinesiology addresses physiological, biomechanical, and psychological mechanisms of movement. Applications of kinesiology to human health (i.e. human kinesiology) include biomechanics and orthopedics; strength and conditioning; sport psychology; methods of rehabilitation, such as physical and occupational therapy; and sport and exercise. Studies of human and animal motion include measures from motion tracking systems, electrophysiology of muscle and brain activity, various methods for monitoring physiological function, and other behavioral and cognitive research techniques.
Doctors order lots of scans, but it takes a specially trained doctor to figure out what a scan means and diagnose exactly what's going on inside the body. David explains why he thinks the years of study to become a radiologist are worth it.
It’s a huge commitment to be an ER doc. But how many people can say they save lives and really mean it? Yamini talks about the rewards – and pressures – of her job.
Students will identify professions in healthcare and the field of kinesiology. They will identify the characteristics of effective providers of healthcare. The students will consider the health/kinesiology occupations and whether or not they could see themselves as healthcare professionals.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
