HPE - Health and Physical Education

Designed to provide a working knowledge of the prevention, care, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. Basic principles of taping and use of modalities will be presented.

Students will develop a solid foundation of life skills needed to maintain personal physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and fitness. Nutrition, hydration, exercise, psychological health, family health, financial health, environmental health, along with local, national, and global health issues will be studied. CPR and First Aid certification will also be completed.

Students apply their knowledge of human anatomy to the study of movement with major emphasis placed upon the action of bones, joints, and muscles and the role of the nervous system in relation to body control. The applicable mechanical principles to gross motor activities are stressed.

Equips the student with the knowledge, procedure, and techniques an athletic trainer uses to perform joint evaluations, apply therapeutic modalities, and rehabilitate athletic injuries. Students will be expected to complete a project involving procedures used in specific athletic injuries.

Provides the student with a workable knowledge of human physiological response to exercise and other environmental stresses. Students will be involved in such practices as the use of graded exercise testing to determine physical fitness levels.