Course summary

This course is ideal for a graduate physiotherapist professional, or other respective health professional wanting to practise in a sport and exercise environment. This innovative one-year programme will give the opportunity to become your best. This unique course is designed to give you the academic, professional and industry knowledge and skills needed to enhance your employment prospects and kickstart your career working as a specialist in the field of sport and exercise rehabilitation in a sport and exercise environment. A key feature of this programme is the applied placement practice and opportunity to work with professional athletes. Course Overview You will have the opportunity to specialise in musculoskeletal injuries and exercise rehabilitation, enabling you to work within high performance sport, as well as the NHS and clinical practice. A key component of the programme involves exposure to real-world settings allowing for the application of theory into practice and provides you with the opportunity to develop your theoretical knowledge and practical skillset. You will explore an array of applied manual therapeutic techniques, including soft tissue skills, as well as functional rehabilitation and pathophysiology of treatment techniques, athletic strength and conditioning, advanced spinal and pitch-side trauma management and multidisciplinary support for sport and exercise. You will deepen your knowledge and understanding of athletes needs, undertaking clinical and physical tests and assessments and interpreting data and information gathered to prevent injury, aid rehabilitation and enhance athlete performance. On this course you will...

• Be able to reach your career goal within one calendar year rather than the more typical two years offered in relatable MSc programmes.

• Develop an advanced knowledge of sports science and sport injuries to work at the forefront and in the highest sectors of the sports industry, whilst also developing a critical approach to clinical practice and a wide range of transferrable interpersonal skills.

• Undertake additional courses and qualifications to enhance your CV, including Rocktape FM1 and the Pre-Hospital Immediate Care in Sport (PHICIS) Level 2 Course. These are industry leading qualifications for professional working in elite sport and are integrated into your programme at no additional cost.

• Apply new knowledge and skills learnt into action by undertaking an extended applied practitioner project in a discipline of your choice through undertaking a 100-hour practitioner placement. You will be able to take advantage of our key partnerships, including with professional and academy level sports clubs and sports injury & rehabilitation clinics, to provide research underpinned intervention strategies to enhance athletes’ injury rehabilitation, prevention and performance.

• Have access to our specially designed sport and exercise rehabilitation facilities. This includes the Sports Injury Clinic, Functional Rehabilitation and Strength and Conditioning Suite, as well as human performance laboratories. The Institute also benefits from a range of cutting-edge equipment such as focused shockwave for injury treatment, and biomechanical based techniques used to analyse human movement which you will be able to use to screen for and prevent against injury.

• Study modules involving high quality profession specific training delivered by our excellent staff who are not only research active subject experts but have experience working within the sports industry, bringing professional real-world experience of working with sport performers and teams, coaches, backroom staff and sport governing bodies and organisations.