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Sport Therapy and Rehabilitation with Foundation Year BSc (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

Online

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Online campus

    Yes

  • Delivery of study materials

    Yes

  • Support service

    Yes

  • Virtual classes

    Yes

Set yourself apart as an industry-ready sports therapist and rehabilitation specialist, fully prepared to go into practice after graduation. Starting your studies with a foundation year gives you all the support you need to excel.

Choose the four-year degree incorporating a foundation year for a stimulating introduction to this crucial sphere of the sports industry
Take a route which is designed especially for students considering a new career or who are keen to explore a new subject area
Fulfil your ambitions on a course which sets high academic and professional standards, with accreditation from The Society of Sports Therapists
Apply theory to practice by undertaking over 200 hours of clinical placements working under expert supervision
Perfect your techniques in manual therapy, exercise therapy and sports massage to aid the rehabilitation process
Go on exciting fieldtrips to major events where you can see sports therapists in action
Take full advantage of the outstanding learning facilities in our new sports centre
Learn from highly experienced staff who regularly provide professional consultancy services to elite track and field athletes, golfers and footballers
Demand for skilled and confident sport therapy professionals is running at an all-time high. This course ensures you are ideally placed to take full advantage of the exciting career opportunities ahead.

Gain industry-ready skills
Clients and patients rely on sports therapists to help them reach optimum levels of functional, occupational and sports-specific fitness. As a professional working in this field, you’ll harness the principles of sport and exercise to help boost performance and develop injury prevention and rehabilitation programmes. You’ll also deliver assessments and treatments in a variety of recreational, training and competitive settings.

About this course

Because this course is aligned to the professional guidelines set out by The Society of Sports Therapists, you’ll be fully prepared to go into practice as an injury and exercise-based rehabilitation and fitness specialist. You can also progress to roles working in multi-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary healthcare teams.

Your qualification also puts you on the pathway to postgraduate education, including the exciting and innovative masters courses available at Derby. You could consider our MRes Sport and Exercise programme or our MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Science.

GCSE Maths and English are preferred, however if you don't have these qualifications you will be able to undertake Maths and English at L2 as part of your course of study.
6.0 (with 5.5 in each skills area)

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Subjects

  • Massage
  • Rehabilitation
  • Sports Massage
  • English
  • Maths
  • Anatomy
  • Industry
  • Foundation
  • Physiology
  • Management

Course programme

What you will study

You'll study modules such as

Foundation year
  • English
  • Maths
  • Study Skills in Science
  • Research Methods in Data Handling
  • Fundamentals of Sport and Exercise Science
  • Fundamentals of Human Behaviour
  • Fundamentals of Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • The Art of Sport and Exercise: A Foundation
If you already have level 2 English and Maths, you will not be required to take English and Maths core modules.

Stage One
  • Research and Academic Skills
  • Introduction to Therapeutic Principles
  • Musculoskeletal Anatomy
  • Introduction to Sport and Injury Biomechanics
  • Principles of Sport and Exercise Physiology
  • Sports Massage
Stage Two
  • Research Methods
  • Sports Specific Rehabilitation
  • Musculoskeletal Assessment: Peripheral
  • Manual Therapy
  • Sports Trauma Management
  • Injury Biomechanics and Corrective Principles
Industrial Placement Year (optional)

This course offers an ‘Industrial Placement Year’ giving you the opportunity to enhance your practical skills by putting theory into practice, network in your industry and stand-out in the graduate job market. The placement year takes place in your third year, once completed, you would return to University to complete your final year of studies.
  • Applied Professional Practice
  • Contemporary Issues in Professional Practice
Stage Three
  • Independent Study
  • Clinical Placement
  • Advanced Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Assessment: Spinal
  • Advanced Soft-tissue Skills and Clinical/Critical Thinking
  • Sports Conditioning

Additional information

UK/EU fee£9,250 per year* (2020/21)

International fee£14,045 per year (2020/21)

Sport Therapy and Rehabilitation with Foundation Year BSc (Hons)

Price on request