Concussion Awareness for Coaches
20 minutes
CIMSPA CPD valid for 12 months
Learn more about concussion, its impact on people, and how you can adapt your coaching environment to support people who have a concussion.
Overview
This eLearning course will give you an essential understanding of concussion, and the impact that it can have on someone’s life.
With a better understanding of what concussion is, you will be well-equipped to recognise the key signs and symptoms, and so better support participants that sustain a concussion.
You will also learn how you can support a participant’s safe and sustainable return to participation in sport and physical activity, including how you can adapt your sessions to meet their ongoing needs.
As part of the course, you will need to complete a short knowledge check that will give you the chance to test and confirm what you’ve learned.
Complete the course today to learn more about concussion and how you can support participants that experience one.
On this course you will:
- Learn more about concussion and the impact that a concussion can have on a person’s life.
- Consider how to identify the signs and symptoms of a concussion: key to supporting participants and establishing a safe environment for participation.
- Find out what to do if someone sustains a concussion at your sessions.
- Consider how you can support participants that experienced a concussion to return to sport and physical activity following their recovery.
- Explore the signposting and support on concussion that you can offer to all participants.
Full course details
This eLearning course is suitable for coaches working at all levels and in all environments and is key to running safe coaching sessions.
This course is self-paced and lasts approximately 20 minutes. You will be able to access it whenever you want, at a time that fits in with your lifestyle and schedule.
You have access to this course for 12 months from the point of enrolment.
Our experienced advisors are on hand to offer any assistance if you need any help with navigating through the course.
This course has been designed to be fully mobile-responsive, scaling up and down as needed.
For the best experience, we recommend you complete it on a desktop.
If you have a visual impairment, we have designed the course to work with screen readers.
There are some videos in the course that feature audio. We have included transcripts to aid people with hearing impairments.
If you are an organisation and want to purchase this course for your learners, please get in touch.
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