Sports Therapy BSc (Hons)

• Learn with a dynamic , expert and research-rich team from health professions and sports science backgrounds
• Study assessment and management of sporting injury, manual therapies and how to apply them in training, sports performance and rehabilitation
• Develop your employability skills through professional practice in field and clinical settings
• Gain from accreditation by Independent Professional Therapists International (IPTI) and affiliation with the Sports Massage Association (SMA), and access to level 4 membership giving strong links with elite organisations like the British Olympic Association, English Institute of Sport and VTCT, so our graduates can apply for employment
• Benefit from one of the best-equipped sports therapy and physical therapy teaching environments in the UK including new strength and conditioning gym and sports therapy suites and practise your clinical skills in our in-house diagnostic, sports massage and sports injury clinics, as well as in external sports clubs and clinics.

This course has achieved % overall satisfaction in the National Student Survey .

The majority of the course will focused on developing your practical skills so you become a confident, competent and professional clinician. The course places a strong emphasis on combining practical skills with theory (ranging from human anatomy, through physiology, pathology, clinical management skills, sports science, and biomechanics to psychology).

You will have the opportunity to be taught by an expert and dynamic team of research-active health and sports science professions.

Not only will you learn to use contemporary research evidence to underpin your clinical reasoning but in your second and third years, you will have an opportunity to design and execute a piece of original research.

The theoretical and practical knowledge that you will gain on this course, combined with the research and wider academic skills taught, will equip you well for employment in the Sports Therapy Industry and beyond and for further studies should you wish.

• Gym Instruction
• Reading and Interpreting Research
• Introduction to Physiology and Biomechanics
• Applied Anatomy
• Sports Massage
• Professional Practice
• Advanced Soft Tissue Techniques
• Introduction to Sports Injuries
• Planning and Conducting Research
• Advanced Physiology and Biomechanics
• Sport and Exercise Nutrition
• Field Practice
• Final Year Project
• Electrotherapy and Therapeutic Modalities
• Applied Physiology and Biomechanics
• Sports Injury Rehabilitation
• Clinical Practice