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2025-2026 Draft Catalog ARCHIVED CATALOG: Content may no longer be accurate.
Course Descriptions - RHS
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Department of Athletic Training
MSAT 6760 - Suturing, Joint Relocation and Advanced AT Skills Credits: (1)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: 1st Blk
Typically Taught Spring Semester: 2nd Blk, 1st Blk
Course Fee: $40.00
Course Fee Purpose: Suturing Practice Kit and e-book.
Description: Graduate students in this course will learn advanced wound closure techniques such as skin adhesives and basic suturing. This course will also include advanced clinical skills such as reducing dislocations.
RHS 1300 - First Aid: Responding to Emergencies Credits: (2)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: 1st Blk
Typically Taught Fall Semester: 1st Blk
Typically Taught Spring Semester: 1st Blk
Course Fee: $35.00
Course Fee Purpose: Alcohol prep pads, gloves, disposable masks, CPR manikins, AED trainers.
Description: Trains the lay person to respond correctly in emergencies and act as the first link in the emergency medical service system. Course leads to American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and Heartsaver First Aid OR American Red Cross certification in Adult, Infant and Child CPR with AED and First Aid: Responding to Emergencies.
Cross-listed with HLTH 1300 .
RHS 1550 - Introduction to Rehabilitation Sciences Credits: (2)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: This course is designed to introduce students to health care professions that the majority of athletic therapy majors pursue. These health care professions include: athletic training (AT), physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT), physician assistant (PA), and medicine (MD or DO). Through lectures, assignments, and guest speaker presentations, students will be introduced to a variety of health care professions, learn about the application process for various graduate programs, use resources to prepare their graduate program applications, and develop/revise their degree plans for their Bachelor’s degree and graduate program prerequisites.
RHS 2175 - Introduction to Sports Medicine Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Presents the duties, functions, and collaboration of sports medicine professionals in the care and supervision of athletes. The course will focus on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common musculoskeletal injuries/illnesses, strength and conditioning of athletes, environmental factors and guidelines, and management and administration of the sports medicine team.
RHS 2300 - Emergency Response Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: 2nd Blk
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $64.00
Course Fee Purpose: Alcohol prep pads, gloves, disposable masks, CPR manikins, AED trainers, nasal/oral airways, oxygen tanks and regulators.
Description: Meets the needs of the non-health care professional who has a duty to respond in an emergency. Provides more skills and in-depth training than the First Aid: Responding to Emergencies course. Course leads to American Red Cross certification in Emergency Response and CPR for the Professional Rescuer.
Cross-listed with HLTH 2300 .
RHS 2431 - Taping, Wrapping, Bracing, Padding, and Splinting Credits: (1)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, 1st Blk, 2nd Blk
Description: This course is designed to give a basic understanding of athletic training taping, wrapping, bracing, padding, and splinting techniques. Students will apply a variety of techniques to support all areas of the body.
RHS 2890 - Introduction to Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Provides academic credit for shadowing experience of a health care professional. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the health care industry early in their major by shadowing a health care professional for a minimum of 60 hours within a given semester. Once accepted to the Rehabilitation Sciences (BS) program, students will take the expanded version of this course (RHS 4890), which requires students to complete a full internship instead of a shadowing experience.
Students have the option to request RHS 2890 to be waived as a required course for the Rehabilitation Sciences (BS) program. Students must submit a waiver form to the program director, which verifies that they have previously completed at least 60 hours of shadowing experience with a health care professional. Experiential credit is not an option for this course.
RHS 3080 - Evidence Based Practice for Rehabilitation Sciences Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem, 2nd Blk, 1st Blk
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course explores the concepts necessary to ensure future allied health professionals are well prepared to utilize an evidence-based practice approach to treatment. Students will gain familiarity with the major elements of evidenced-based practice, such as developing a clinically-relevant research question, research design, evaluation, statistical analysis, presentation of data, and ethical considerations. This course also provides an overview of descriptive and inferential statistics. Students should have a basic understanding of conducting library and Internet information searches prior to taking this course.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 1010 or higher; or Math ACT score of 23 or higher.
RHS 3200 - Psychology of Sport, Injury & Rehabilitation Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the psychology of sport, injury, and rehabilitation. Topics covered include: emotion, motivation, psychosocial skills training and application, psychological antecedents of injury, psychology of injury and rehabilitation including individual response and effect on self-identity and physical function, and outcomes topics related to rehabilitation and exercise adherence, eating disorders, alcohol and drug/substance abuse, cultural competence, and research methods within the area of sport, injury, and rehabilitation psychology.
RHS 3300 - Evaluation and Care of Musculoskeletal Injuries: Lower Extremities Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: 1st Blk Online
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, 1st Blk Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: 1st Blk Online
Course Fee: $15.00
Course Fee Purpose: This course has a fee attached. Course fees are established in order to benefit the students in this course and may, among other things, be used to cover the costs of equipment replacement and maintenance, consumable materials, licensure examinations, or to meet specific regulatory requirements. Examples of course fee expenditures for this specific course include tools/instruments such as tape measures, goniometers, pinwheels, reflex hammers, 2-point discriminators, and anatomical models.
Description: Content of this course addresses evaluation techniques and care for musculoskeletal injuries to the trunk and lower extremities. The student must integrate knowledge of anatomical structures, physiology principles and evaluative techniques to provide a basis for critical decision-making in an injury management environment.
Pre-requisite(s): ZOOL 2320 or HTHS 1110 .
RHS 3301 - Evaluation and Care of Musculoskeletal Injuries: Upper Extremities Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: 2nd Blk Online
Typically Taught Fall Semester: 2nd Blk Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $15.00
Course Fee Purpose: This course has a fee attached. Course fees are established in order to benefit the students in this course and may, among other things, be used to cover the costs of equipment replacement and maintenance, consumable materials, licensure examinations, or to meet specific regulatory requirements. Examples of course fee expenditures for this specific course include tools/instruments such as goniometers, pinwheels, reflex hammers, 2-point discriminators, bubble inclinometers, penlights, and anatomical models.
Description: Content of this course addresses evaluation techniques and care for musculoskeletal injuries to the head, face and upper extremities. The student must integrate knowledge of anatomical structures, physiology principles and evaluative techniques to provide a basis for critical decision-making in an injury management environment.
Pre-requisite(s): ZOOL 2320 or HTHS 1110 .
RHS 3505 - Standardized Patient Training Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: The purpose of this course is to provide experiential learning for WSU health professions students by training them to act as standardized patients for simulated exam experiences in different health professions courses. Students will learn to respond to health professions students with consistent, reliable, professional responses to a variety of simulated scenarios. In this course, students will be introduced to orthopedic evaluation and assessment, the role of a patient, basic acting skills, training on how to portray patients, case simulations, and instructions on how to provide constructive feedback to health professions students.
RHS 3600 - Ergonomics for Health and Safety Credits: (2)
Description: Examines and analyzes the effects of the workplace on employees and adaptations of the work environment to suit the individual. The focus is on the interaction of work and people, i.e., physiological and environmental stresses with the primary intent to establish ways to reduce injuries, accidents, and fatigue and to improve human performance at work.
Pre-requisite(s): ESS 3500 or consent of instructor.
Note: This course is not currently offered.
RHS 4150 - Therapeutic Modalities for Rehabilitation Sciences majors Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $45.00
Course Fee Purpose: Modality equipment such as massage lotion, Ethyl Chloride spray, ice bags, paraffin wax beads, compression stockinets, electrical stimulation electrodes, biofeedback electrodes, lonto-patch system, ultrasound gel pads, ultrasound gel, treatment towels.
Description: Specifically designed for the pre-professional student, the course will introduce the student to contemporary usage and basic foundation of therapeutic modalities. Through lecture, discussion, and laboratory experience, the scientific basis of musculoskeletal rehabilitation involving therapeutic modalities will be examined. Emphasis will be placed on fundamental concepts of tissue healing and pain control techniques, as well as an introduction to cryo/thermotherapy, massage, traction, ultrasound and electrical stimulation.
Pre-requisite(s): RHS 3300 , RHS 3301 .
Note: Must be admitted to the Rehabilitation Sciences (formerly Athletic Therapy) program in order to register for this course.
RHS 4250 - Rehabilitation for Rehabilitation Sciences majors Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $45.00
Course Fee Purpose: Goniometers, inclinometers, hand sanitizer, Theratubing, Theraband, pool chemicals.
Description: This course provides an overview of therapeutic exercise as it relates to the rehabilitation process of musculoskeletal injuries for Rehabilitation Sciences majors. This course provides instruction and hands-on techniques in basic therapeutic rehabilitation techniques.
Pre-requisite(s): RHS 3300 , RHS 3301 , ESS 3450 .
Note: Must be admitted to the Rehabilitation Sciences (formerly Athletic Therapy) program in order to register for this course.
RHS 4800 CRE - Individual Projects Credits: (1-4)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: A comprehensive study or project in the field of Athletic Training. Hours to be arranged for seniors only.
May be repeated 3 times up to 16 credit hours.
RHS 4810 - Experimental Course Credits: (1-6)
Experimental
Description: Consult the semester class schedule for the current offering under this number. The specific title will appear on student’s transcript along with the authorized credit.
May be repeated for a total maximum of 6 credit hours.
RHS 4890 INT - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-6)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Provides academic credit for on-the-job experience.
May be repeated 5 times and up to 6 credit hours.
Note: Must be admitted to the Rehabilitation Sciences program to register for this course.
RHS 4999 - Special Topics in Rehabilitation Sciences Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: 2nd Blk, 2nd Blk Online, 1st Blk, 1st Blk Online
Typically Taught Fall Semester: 2nd Blk, 2nd Blk Online, 1st Blk, 1st Blk Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: 2nd Blk, 2nd Blk Online, 1st Blk, 1st Blk Online
Description: This course will focus on introducing students to special topics which may include but are not limited to: women’s health, instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization, or sacroiliac joint conditions.
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