Course summary
Our new master's degree in Sport Injury Rehabilitation will build your knowledge and skills to be an integral part of returning athletes to optimum fitness. In both elite and high-performance sports and recreational events, comprehensive rehabilitation from injury is critical to an athlete’s body, mind and their future in the sport they love. Expanding on your existing experience in sporting injuries and rehabilitation and using evidence-based practice, you’ll develop your clinical judgement skills, and understanding of professional issues in sports, and be part of innovative rehabilitation research. You’ll be taught in the new National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC), a 70 bed NHS rehabilitation facility near Loughborough and Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham, one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK. Subjects will include:
- sport nutrition
- metabolism
- muscle physiology
- nutrient-gene interactions
- research methods
- an understanding of key sports-specific movements and how they inform common injuries across different sports
- skills in providing pitch side care to injured athletes
- experience of working among a larger multidisciplinary healthcare team
- enhanced critical thinking skills in making an educated judgement
- fundamental knowledge and skills in conducting empirical research
- knowledge of ethical constraints in human research
- skills in conducting clinical assessment and rehabilitation of injured athletes with acute or chronic sports injuries
- understanding of current issues and new insights in the field of sports injury rehabilitation
Modules
- Rehabilitation Research Methods,
- Rehabilitation Research Project,
- Contemporary Topics in Rehabilitation,
- Sports Placements and Applied Practice,
- Sporting Injuries and Functional Performance,
- Sports Placements and Applied Practice 1.
- Rehabilitation Research Methods,
- Rehabilitation Research Project,
- Sporting Injuries and Functional Performance,
- Contemporary Topics in Rehabilitation,
- Sports Placements and Applied Practice 3,
Assessment method
Assessment of learning will include practicals, assignments and student presentations.
Entry requirements
* 2.1 in a relevant degree such as Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Sports Therapy, Sports Rehabilitation, Sports and Exercise Science, Strength and Conditioning, and other Allied Health Sciences or pass on a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree (BMBS, MBBS, or equivalent). * Students who have obtained a 2:2 will be considered on a case-by-case basis, dependent on the relevance of the degree, their profile of performance and/or work experience. * IELTS: 6.5 (no less than 6.0 in any element). * As well as IELTS (listed above), we also accept other English language qualifications. This includes TOEFL iBT, Pearson PTE, GCSE, IB and O level English.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
UK fees: £13,450. International fees: £23,000.
Provider information
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD