SE337-6-AU-CO:
Exercise Prescription
2025/26
Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences (School of)
Colchester Campus
Autumn
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 02 October 2025
Friday 12 December 2025
15
09 August 2024
Requisites for this module
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This module provides students with both theoretical and practical knowledge, enabling them to comprehend the intricacies of specific neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory conditions. Emphasis is placed on equipping students with the practical skills necessary to evaluate and prescribe appropriate exercises for their final stages of rehabilitation, restoration of health, and/or return to sport.
The aims of this module are:
- To enable students to identify, assess, and prescribe exercises by promoting a thorough and expansive comprehension of specific neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory conditions.
- To provide students with a well-rounded blend of theoretical insights and hands-on practical knowledge. Special emphasis is placed on equipping students with the requisite practical skills, ensuring their proficiency in prescribing tailored exercises specifically for the final stages of rehabilitation, restoration of health, and/or return to sport in the context of these conditions.
- To enable students to deepen their theoretical foundations but also to instill a practical competence that aligns with the specific demands of addressing health conditions in their final stages of rehabilitation, restoration of health, and/or return to sport.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the pathophysiology of specific neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory conditions.
- Plan and deploy accurately established screening techniques and exercise tests for specific neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory conditions.
- Design, deploy and manage accurately established exercise programmes for specific neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory conditions as it relates to final stages of rehabilitation, restoration of health, and/or return to sport.
Students should already have knowledge of anatomy and physiology.
Students will learn about evidence-based practice and key issues.
Topics will include:
- The structure and function of the human body together with knowledge of health, disease, disorder, and dysfunction, specifically pertaining to the neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems.
- Overview of planning, prescribing, executing, and evaluating exercise testing and exercise prescription to meet the needs and goals of final stages of rehabilitation, restoration of health, and/or return to sport in individuals with neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory dysfunction.
- Overview of the selection, planning, implementation, and management of treatments aimed at the facilitation and restoration of movement, function, and athletic or sporting activity of individuals with neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory dysfunction.
- Evaluation of final stage rehabilitation, restoration of health, and/or return to sport programmes using recognised outcome measures.
This module will be delivered via:
- One 2-hour lecture per week
- Five 2-hour lab-based practicals per term
- Two drop-in sessions (i.e. support classes) per term
Students will be expected to undertake the reading before classes and be prepared to engage in group discussion.
This module does not appear to have any essential texts. To see non - essential items, please refer to the module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Practical |
Practical Assignment |
|
100% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Ina Shaw, email: i.shaw@essex.ac.uk.
SRES Office, email: sres (Non essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create the full email address)
No
No
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Mr Mark Leather
uclan
COURSE LEADER
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