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EXPLANATION

Sports Science is a discipline that studies the how the healthy body moves during exercise and how it upholds sports and physical activity from the cellular aspect to the whole body. The study of Sports Science utilizes different sciences like Physiology, Psychology, Anatomy, Biomechanics and Biochemistry. It is a college program that focuses on improving an athlete’s overall performance.

Lately, sports is becoming prevalent, even though children these days often play games on tablets, phones and computers. Whether you play basketball, volleyball, baseball, lacrosse, practice mixed martial arts or ride a skateboard, injuries are present on all of the aforementioned. Injuries are unavoidable, as they are part of any contact sport, or any sport that involves the movement of joints. Sport science has a sub-discipline called Athletic training, which is the study and application of the prevention, analysis, treatment, and rehabilitation of sports injuries. Athletic trainers are involved with athletes almost daily; they help design conditioning programs appropriate to specific sports during the preseason, postseason, and off-season; they tape, preventively as well as protectively, athletes before activity, and they are responsible for assessing injuries at the time they occur, providing immediate and appropriate first aid, and supervising the rehabilitation process, which may include recommendations from a physician. Extensive knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the body and skill in applying this knowledge to injury situations are essential for athletic trainers. Sometimes they need to be able to console injured athletes and keep them from trying to return to competitions or practices too quickly. At other times, athletic trainers need to encourage athletes to work more diligently during their rehabilitation.

RECOUNT

I started my college course, Bachelor of Science Major in Sports Science, back in 2012, a year after the Quadricentennial celebration of UST. The Neocentennial year, that’s what they called 2012, was not that bad; they gave us pretty cool lanyards, and the university still that Quadricentennial vibe. Personally, I was excited to start going to college, mainly because it was a different atmosphere, and because UST was far from home.

My first few months was a bit grueling; I have never experienced that much work in the first few weeks of starting school and my mind was still fresh off summer. I managed to cope up, eventually, but that’s when bad news came around my way: Our US petitions got approved, and we were set to leave to country. At first, I was exceedingly upset. Just when I got the hang of college life, just when I thought I’d be with this class block up until our internship, it all fell apart. There were days that I either came in class late, or didn’t come in at all, because we had to procure Barangay and NBI clearances, have our medicals done, and finally, the interview. All went well, but I still can’t believe that I’m about to leave this beloved country of mine. After the first semester, I didn’t enroll anymore; I told my classmates before the semestral break, that this would be the last time we would be seeing each other, and that this is not a drill. All they could say was good luck, and come back quick.