Sports Injury Prevention and Corrective Training Certification

Sports Injury Prevention and Corrective Training Certification is a vertical skills certification for fitness coaches, physical coaches, and sports rehabilitation practitioners. The core is to standardize the implementation ability of "sports risk pre-screening + post-injury functional reconstruction". The current domestic mainstream certification pass rate is between 62% and 75%. The class fee of certified practitioners is generally 30%-50% higher than that of ordinary coaches with the same qualifications, but it is not suitable for people with zero foundation to apply directly.

Last year, I accompanied two coaches from my studio to take the NASM CES certification exam. There was a row of young people wearing quick-drying clothes squatting outside the exam room. One guy was holding his admission ticket and rubbing his waist. He said that he didn’t pay attention to the member’s congenital anterior pelvic tilt when I led him to practice deadlifts. He suffered from lumbar protrusion and lost a small fortune of 100,000. He resigned from his job and went into seclusion for two months to take the exam to make up for his shortcomings. To be honest, I had always thought that this kind of certification was a tool for cutting leeks in the industry. It wasn’t until the studio encountered a similar claim: the coach gave a squat class to a mother who had just given birth, without assessing the diastasis of the rectus abdominis and pelvic tilt in advance. The mother had effusion in the knee three times and lost more than 20,000 yuan in compensation. Only then did I realize that what many people regard as “common sense issues” is a blind spot for coaches who have not received systematic training.

There is actually quite a lot of controversy over this certification in the industry. Most doctors in the sports rehabilitation department feel that many fitness instructors take this certification just to increase their class fees. They don't even know how to read basic imaging films, and they dare to do "injury rehabilitation" after learning a few assessment movements. This is essentially nonsense. ； But the feedback from the front-line coaching group is just the opposite. A dozen certified coaches around me said that after completing the course, they can avoid at least 80% of the injury risks of ordinary fitness people - just like going through the security check on an airplane. You don't need to know the chemical composition of the bomb, as long as you can recognize the contraband. Ordinary coaches do not need to be able to treat lumbar protrusion. As long as they can see that members are at risk of lumbar protrusion and prevent them from blindly lifting heavy weights, it is already worth the tuition. There is actually nothing wrong with both views, they are just different in positioning. Originally, the core of this certification is "prevention", not "treatment". If you really encounter structural damage, you still have to be referred to the hospital. It is unrealistic to require a fitness trainer according to the standards of a clinician.

Oh, by the way, someone also asked me whether it is more cost-effective to choose international certification or domestic certification. My own experience is that it depends on what kind of customers you are: if it focuses on improving the physical fitness of professional athletes and high-end fitness enthusiasts, then the international certification systems of NASM, ACSM, and EXOS are more systematic. Although the registration fee plus training is less than 10,000, the recognition level is indeed high when dealing with high-end customers. ； If it focuses on general office workers, postpartum mothers, and running enthusiasts, it is enough to take the corrective training special certification issued by the General Administration of Sports. It costs two to three thousand, and the content is all about high-frequency scenarios such as sedentary shoulder and neck pain, running knee pain, and postpartum posture problems. You can use it after learning it, and the continuation rate can increase by at least 20%.

Don't think that everything will be fine after taking the certificate. In the past two months, I met a coach with dual certificates who was rehabilitating members with level 2 meniscus injuries. He made people squat against the wall without assessing the strength pattern of the quadriceps muscles. After practicing for half a month, the pain was so bad that I couldn't go downstairs. In the end, I went to the rehabilitation department of the hospital for two months to adjust. In the final analysis, this thing is a skills certification, not a gold medal for immunity from death. It is useless to memorize the starting and ending points of muscles and the evaluation process. You have to really touch a hundred different shoulders and see a hundred different arches of the feet to quickly determine whether the other person's problem is a congenital bone problem or whether it is a result of sitting with one's legs crossed for a long time. I generally recommend that when taking exams, you should use your colleagues and friends as models, and do more practical assessments. The teacher will give you a pelvic adjustment on the spot, which is more useful than memorizing the knowledge points of the online class ten times.

If you happen to be teaching members who often have minor injuries, don't know how to plan for members with old injuries, or want to increase the class fee and can't find a way to make it, it is really cost-effective to take this certification. But if you don’t even understand the basic anatomy knowledge, and you can’t even distinguish between the quadriceps and hamstrings, you’d better lay a solid foundation first. Otherwise, even if you get the certificate, you will still be a “certificate slave” who only knows how to go through the process, and you will still be confused when you encounter problems.