CAPET study guide
CAPET · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Certified Associate Professional in Esports Therapy (CAPET) is a professional credential for practitioners who support competitive gamers - typically athletic trainers, physical therapists, and performance staff moving into esports. It signals that you can assess players, manage the injuries and loads unique to screen-based competition, and work alongside coaches, managers, and clinicians. The CAPET study guide has 9 sections and about 3,632 words.
01Foundations of Esports and Competitive Gaming Culture
This domain tests your grip on the structures, vocabulary, and cultural forces that make competitive gaming a distinct performance environment. Items typically ask you to classify titles and roles, trace who controls rules and eligibility, and explain how online culture shapes athlete welfare and practice design.
476 words, about 2 min02Esports Athlete Assessment and Screening
This domain tests whether you can select, administer, and interpret athlete assessments defensibly. Items probe reliability and validity, the distinction between baseline testing, talent identification, and return-to-play testing, and the limits of in-game statistics.
406 words, about 2 min03Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention and Management in Esports
This domain tests your ability to reason about overuse complaints driven by sustained static posture and high-frequency, low-force repetition. Expect items on common sites, load-related mechanisms, prevention programming, red flags, and referral triggers.
418 words, about 2 min04Neuromuscular and Cognitive Performance Optimization
This domain tests how you build performance in the systems esports actually uses: fast visual processing, working memory, inhibitory control, task switching, and fine motor precision under fatigue. Expect items on training specificity, warm-up design, and the limits of generic cognitive training.
384 words, about 2 min05Load Management, Recovery, and Sleep Hygiene
This domain tests whether you can quantify training and competition load, interpret monitoring data sensibly, and build recovery plans that survive real esports schedules. Items favour reasoning over formulas.
400 words, about 2 min06Nutrition, Hydration, and Supplement Considerations
This domain tests practical fuelling for long, irregular screen sessions plus the boundaries of your scope. Expect items on energy availability, carbohydrate and protein timing, hydration, caffeine, creatine, and third-party testing.
386 words, about 2 min07Psychological Health, Burnout, and Performance Psychology
This domain tests your ability to separate a form slump from a mental health problem, to apply performance psychology ethically, and to know when to refer. Items often present a declining player and ask what you do first.
360 words, about 2 min08Ergonomics, Equipment, and Training Environment Design
This domain tests whether you can link reported symptoms to workstation and equipment variables, and design a team facility that supports performance rather than just looking professional. Monitor top edge at or slightly below eye level; viewing distance around arm's length, roughly 50-75 centimetres.
410 words, about 2 min09Professional Practice, Ethics, and Interprofessional Collaboration
This domain tests judgement: scope of practice, consent, confidentiality, safeguarding, integrity rules, and how you work alongside physiotherapists, dietitians, psychologists, coaches, and analysts. Items usually pose a request that sounds reasonable but crosses a line.
392 words, about 2 min