MSc Sport Rehabilitation - Part-time

Master

In Bolton

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Bolton

  • Duration

    2 Years

Designed to help you get to the top in the field of injury rehabilitation and prevention, our British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT) accredited Master’s degree in Sport Rehabilitation focuses on clinical diagnostics, patient management, and the comprehensive rehabilitation of musculoskeletal issues.

Based in Bolton One, the University of Bolton’s specially designed sports and health teaching and research centre, this practically-focused course covers injury diagnostics, specialised early and late stage rehabilitation, trauma management and movement analysis. Practical laboratory and clinical work are essential elements of the course, and we host two commercially-active facilities on campus to support this – our Sports and Spinal Injury Clinic and our Athlete Development Centre. We also work with an extensive network of partners, offering external professional placements with professional sports teams, private clinics, and orthopaedic departments.

Our dedicated team of experienced academic practitioners have worked at all levels of elite and professional sport. We wish to share our expertise and passion to help you gain a high-level of academic and theoretical knowledge (for evidence-based practice), and the professional, vocational, and practical skills needed to be a successful clinician in this exciting and dynamic field of sports healthcare.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bolton (Greater Manchester)
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Deane Road, BL3 5AB

Start date

On request

About this course

With people’s increased awareness of exercise and the need to prevent and manage injury, there’s a growing demand for practitioners specialising in healthcare for the physically active. As a graduate, you’ll understand how to conduct research and apply your findings to the real world. You’ll also have knowledge of a range of topics, including injury prevention and recovery, injury diagnostics, specialised early and late stage rehabilitation, manual therapies, trauma management and movement analysis.

This course develops your subject knowledge and understanding, as well as your cognitive skills such as critical reasoning and analysis, application of sport rehabilitation principles to case scenarios, and how to appropriately interpret research findings.

As a graduate of this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge required to become an autonomous healthcare practitioner, specialising in fitness, exercise-based rehabilitation and musculoskeletal management.

Opportunities exist with professional and non-professional team sports as medical practitioners, elite sport organisations such as British Cycling, the Ministry of Defence as exercise rehabilitation instructors, private clinical practice, personal training, rehabilitation specialists, university education, and injury case-load management.

Our graduates are also able to establish their own consultancy business or progress on to additional study and research including MPhil/PhD degrees.

Alternative Career Options
Health promotion
Teaching and academia
Outdoor activities/education management
Sport and exercise psychology
Sport therapy
Community rehabilitation
Research and development

Typically, you’ll have successfully completed an Honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject (e.g. sport rehabilitation, physiotherapy, sports therapy, sport and exercise science, sports coaching, strength and conditioning, or physical education).

Preferably, you’ll also have relevant vocational experience, or be in the process of obtaining some.

If you don’t meet the standard entry requirements but have considerable sector-based expertise, we’ll be happy to consider your application.

The course is accredited by the British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT), the professional body for Graduate Sport Rehabilitators (GSR), who hold an Accredited Professional Register approved by the Professional Standards Authority for Healthcare in the UK. BASRaT provides full professional liability insurance to all graduates, which enables you to practice as a sport rehabilitation professional.

Key Features:
Our highly-qualified lecturers are Chartered, State Registered or BASRaT-accredited, have extensive experience in elite full-time sport, are all in clinical practice and are involved in current research.
Specialist facilities in Bolton One include our practitioner-led Sports and Spinal Injuries Clinic, our Athlete Development Centre, hydrotherapy and swimming pools, a rehabilitation suite, a strength and conditioning suite, sport and exercise laboratories focusing on physiology and biomechanics, fully equipped teaching clinics, and much more.
You’ll be encouraged to attend relevant master classes, external courses and voluntary events, such as sports massage for professional teams, to enhance your learning. These help you to make contacts in the industry and contribute to your professional development.
Alongside specialist sport rehabilitation knowledge, you’ll have the chance to further develop your skills in research, data collection and evaluation, critical reasoning and analysis, as well as in areas such as communication, presentation, team working, and problem solving.
We offer a warm and friendly environment for your studies, with relatively small class sizes, specialist sports and clinical teaching facilities, and excellent IT and library services. You’ll also be able to access a great range of recreational sport and exercise facilities for when you need to exercise your body instead of your mind.

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Subjects

  • Rehabilitation
  • Teaching
  • Part Time
  • Assessment
  • Management
  • Assessment and Management
  • Preventative Exercise
  • Clinical Treatment Skills
  • Physical Literacy
  • Physical
  • Musculoskeletal

Course programme

Modules

Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.

  • Musculoskeletal Injury Assessment and Management
  • Physical Literacy, Rehabilitation & Preventative Exercise
  • Clinical Treatment Skills
  • Performance, Training, and Special Populations
  • Professional Practice
  • Masters Project
  • Anatomy and Physiology
  • Scientific Enquiry and Data Analysis
Teaching, Learning And Assessment

We use a wide variety of learning, teaching and assessment methods. These aim to help you develop the skills, knowledge and competencies you need to achieve the learning outcomes of this course, and more importantly, to be successful in your future career.

You can expect timetabled classes (for instance, tutor-led lectures, workshops, tutorials, seminars, and practical sessions) along with other learning activities that place a larger emphasis on independent, self-directed and self-managed learning. Information surrounding lecture topics, supportive material and recommended reading will largely be made available through the University’s virtual learning environment, Moodle so that you can access it online. You’ll also have access to a personal tutor for individual support.

In addition, we offer sessions with expert guest speakers and masterclasses with key practitioners from the sport rehabilitation community. These seek to enhance employability and bridge the gap between theory and professional practice. Similarly, work experience forms a large part of the course and is designed to help you develop your skills in a clinical environment.

We also use a broad range of assessment methods, including written examinations, practical assessment, coursework, viva, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), case studies, oral presentations, and research projects. Some assessments will contribute to your final module mark and allow you to demonstrate that you’ve met the learning outcomes, while others are designed to help you identify areas that need extra attention on your part, or where you need extra support from your tutors.

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.

MSc Sport Rehabilitation - Part-time

Price on request