AFAA - Essential Injury Prevention

The AFAA Essential Injury Prevention course is a comprehensive online programme designed to equip fitness professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify, prevent, and manage common injuries in group exercise settings.

As a fitness professional, you know that moving efficiently in activities is key to performance and longevity for you and your participants. With AFAA’s bundled Injury Prevention Series – Essential Injury Prevention (Parts 1-4), you’ll take group fitness to an individual level by learning to assess your class and see how students move, uncover common imbalances, and make adjustments to correct them. Group formats discussed include Cycle, Resistance/Strength Training, Cardio/HIIT, Boot Camp, Dance, Aqua and Mind-Body.

The 4-part video series covers the common mechanics of injuries, strategies for prevention, and basic rehabilitation exercises. Diagrams and examples of exercise progression ideas for the major muscles in each of the following sessions are included.

Key Benefits:

  • In-Depth Understanding of Injury Mechanics: Gain insights into common misalignments and mechanisms of injuries affecting various body regions, enabling proactive prevention strategies.

  • Comprehensive Prevention Strategies: Learn effective techniques to prevent injuries, ensuring safe and effective group exercise sessions.

  • Rehabilitation Exercise Knowledge: Acquire basic rehabilitation exercises to assist participants in recovering from injuries and improving overall movement quality.

Upon completion of the AFAA Essential Injury Prevention course, fitness professionals will be well-equipped to assess participants' movements, identify common imbalances and misalignments, and implement corrective strategies to enhance safety and effectiveness in group exercise settings.

Remarks: All online material can only be accessed using desktop or laptop computer. iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone or Android devices are not supported.

Curriculum
FAQ
Learn to define categories of injuries, stages of inflammation and repair, and basic injury terminology. You’ll also review commonly tight muscles and high-risk exercises. Intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors for injury are covered, as well as the AFAA “5 Questions” and the Exercise Continuum.
You’ll focus on common misalignments of the hip, knee, lower leg, ankle and foot, and learn prevention strategies and basic rehabilitation/post-physical therapy exercises. This course reviews anatomy and structure, as well as muscle movements and major mechanisms of injuries.
Explore injury prevention for the spine, with a focus on spinal anatomy and structure, muscles and movements, common misalignments, major mechanisms of injury, strategies for prevention, and basic post-physical therapy exercises.
Expand your knowledge of the common mechanics of injuries, injury prevention, and basic rehabilitation exercises for the upper body, including the shoulder complex, the elbow, and the wrist. Review joint anatomy and structure, muscles of the glenohumeral (G-H), shoulder girdle, elbow and wrist joints.
There are no prerequisites for this course.
  • Online multiple choice exam
  • 15 questions per module (total 60 questions)
  • 3 attempts at the exam
  • 70% passing grade
  • 365 days to complete

AFAA - Essential Injury Prevention

CEU: 1.6 NASM | 16 AFAA

RM899.00 SST

*Note : Price excludes 8% SST

The AFAA Essential Injury Prevention course includes:

  • E-book
  • Online quizzes
  • Online interactive activities
  • Online practice quizzes
  • Online videos
  • Online exam
  1. Upon payment, your online account will be activated with 1-3 days.
  2. Once your account has been activated, you will receive your account details through email, and you can get started! 
  3. You will have our support - we're just a text or call away.
  1. Register and pay for the course.
  2. Complete the self-guided online study materials in your own time from the comfort of home.
  3. Pass the exam (within 365 days of account activation) and and receive your digital certificate!

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