Athletic Training Rooms

The Athletic Training for Sports Medicine Program maintains an athletic training room lab in Memorial Hall which is used for the clinical education of its students. This facility houses all of the modern athletic training equipment that is necessary to provide our students with the highest level of education and experience. The ATEP also utilizes the University of Akron ZIPS athletic training rooms as part of its student's clinical experience.

The Department of Sports Medicine recently moved into the Department of Athletics state-of-the-art Field House in the summer of 2004. The Sports Medicine suite houses a venue for taping, treatment, rehabilitation and hydrotherapy. Each area of the training room is equipped with modern amenities that allow the staff to provide top notch care to each student-athlete.

There is also a training room in Rhodes Arena which serves both men's and women's basketball, as well as the volleyball team. This training room provides taping, treatment and hydrotherapy space for these student-athletes.

Additionally, the Department of Sports Medicine maintains a training room at the Rubber Bowl which is primarily used for football game-day operations. This facility provides treatment and taping space to allow the UA football team to prepare for games. The Rubber Bowl also houses x-ray facilities to allow for on-the-spot diagnosis of injuries.

ZipfitExercise/Wellness Program

In Spring 2000, the Department of Sport Science and Wellness Education initiated the Zipfit Exercise/Wellness Program. The purpose of the program is to provide exercise and fitness to faculty and staff. The major intent of the program is to help faculty and staff learn to exercise and thus make exercise and wellness a regular part of daily life. The program will be staffed by faculty, graduate students and undergraduate majors in exercise science. This program will serve as a practical applied laboratory so that our students can obtain applied experience in exercise testing, prescription and instruction. Students also have the opportunity to gain knowledge in all facets of management related to the sport and exercise setting. This practical experience will allow our students to obtain the needed hours to sit for various professionals certifications.

Motor Behavior Laboratory

Motor Behavior encompasses motor and psychological aspects of development, learning, and control. Motor development relates to the sequential, age-related process whereby an individual’s movement change from simple to highly organized, complex motor skills, and finally to adjustments related to the aging process. Motor learning and control relates to the foundations of sport and exercise and to such principles as: memory, mental rehearsal, information processing, reaction time, anticipation timing, perceptual-motor systems, practice, transfer, balance, concentration, coordination, anxiety, and exercise adherence. Motor Behavior Laboratory experiences translate current developmental worldviews into motor behavior perspectives and theoretical foundations that relate to exercise, sport, rehabilitation, therapy, and physical education. Further, motor behavior experiences introduce students to physical growth and aging; early motor development; principles of motion and stability; development of human locomotion, ballistic, and manipulative skills; impact of perceptual-motor development; impact of functional constraints; and physical fitness over the lifetime. Laboratory students study the impact of society and culture on development, fitness, and physiological changes.

Adapted Physical Education Clinic

The undergraduate Adapted Physical Education Clinic provides an opportunity for students in physical education and exercise science to engage in a clinical experience with children of disabilities. During each semester, students program activities in both aquatics and fundamental motor skills. Children participate with different disabilities. Examples include: Downs Syndrome, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, and others. These disabilities have given the students in the clinic a challenge yet a rewarding exposure to what it's like to teach developmentally appropriate physical activities to children of various abilities, as well as within the context of the child's disability. By doing so, our physical education teachers as well as exercise science specialists will be better prepared to meet the needs of all children.