Course summary
Do you want to be a trained healthcare professional with international recognition and a core foundation in exercise rehabilitation? Sport Rehabilitators have a strong focus on clinical assessment, biomechanics, exercise rehabilitation and returning patients to high levels of function. You will also learn how to optimise health across the lifespan for a variety of population groups and change people’s lives for the better! Clinical experience is an essential and enjoyable part of being a healthcare professional, during the programme you will undertake a minimum of 400 hours of clinical practice across a variety of settings, all supervised by a registered healthcare or medical professional. To support this transition to clinical work, you will do a lot of applied practice in small group practical sessions. During this programme, you will:
- Learn to assess and improve the health and function in people with injury, illness and disease, and positively contribute to improving public and athlete health through lifestyle, exercise and physical activity.
- Be taught by industry experts with a focus on practical skills and small group practical sessions supported by fundamental scientific principles
- Graduate with the skills to diagnose and treat injuries, pain and musculoskeletal conditions and prescribe exercise to a variety of special populations.
- Experience a variety of settings on placement such as hospitals with orthopaedic consultants, GP practices, the Ministry of Defence, Private sport rehabilitation and physiotherapy clinics and practices associated with Dance Schools
Modules
Injury Assessment and Rehabilitation Multidisciplinary Approaches in Sport Rehabilitation Athletic Training and Conditioning Sport Rehabilitation Practice Research Enquiry in Sport Rehabilitation Sport Rehabilitation Project
Assessment method
Exams - theory - 8% Exams - practical work and clinical assessments - 25% Essays and projects - 42% Presentations - 25%
Entry requirements
2:1 in any sports or health-related degrees, or other degree with additional qualifications/ accreditation/ certifications relating to the programme. 2:2 in sports or health-related degree with additional qualifications/ accreditation/ certifications related to the programme. Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL): We welcome applications from students who may not have formal/traditional entry criteria but who have relevant experience or the ability to pursue the course successfully. The Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) process could help you to make your work and life experience count. The APL process can be used for entry onto courses or to give you exemptions from parts of your course. Two forms of APL may be used for entry: the Accreditation of Prior Certificated Learning (APCL) or the Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL). APEL: Sports injury practitioners with lower formal academic qualification will be assessed on suitability to enroll on this programme based on experience and vocational qualifications and via interview.
English language requirements
International applicants will be required to show proficiency in English. An IELTS score of 6.0 (with no element below 5.5) is proof of this. If you need to improve your written and spoken English, you might be interested in our English language courses.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
University of Salford
The Crescent
Salford
M5 4WT