Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation BSc (Hons)

This course is designed to give you high-quality profession-specific training to prevent, assess, diagnose and treat sports and physical activity-related injuries. Centered around developing competency within a vocational topic area utilising industrial standard equipment and techniques and thereby preparing you for your future career.

Teaching and assessment within the course is centered on significant practice-based learning including extensive use of case studies, work-based placement with industrial experts including course graduates, internal commercial experiences as well as student learning trips. Embedded within the course are wider transferable skills to enables you to successfully enter graduate level employment across a much wider scope of opportunities following their completion of the course.

The BSc (Hons) Sport Rehabilitation and Training course aims to provide graduates with the skills and knowledge to progress into a career as a Graduate Sport Rehabilitator (GSR) on the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) accredited register held by the British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT). Throughout the course students apply their knowledge and skills while completing a minimum of 400 hours of practice placement in a range of different environments while benefiting from guidance from both practicing sport rehabilitation professionals as well as academic staff.

The School of Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation prioritises student employability within its core ethos and vision. The content of the course is centred upon developing competency within a vocational topic area utilising industrial standard equipment and techniques and thereby preparing students for their future career.

Teaching and assessment within the course is centred on significant practice-based learning including extensive use of case studies, work-based placement with industrial experts including course graduates, internal commercial experiences as well as student learning trips.

Embedded within the course are wider transferable skills to enable students to successfully enter graduate level employment across a much wider scope of opportunities following their completion of the course. Within the school, this course is also designed to encompass the indicative content of the BASRaT Educational Framework to allow graduates to join the accredited professional body following their successful completion of the course.