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MSc Sports Physiotherapy Distance-learning

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    MSc 3 to 5 years part-time distance learning

Course Description

Enhance your sports physiotherapy knowledge, skills and experience. This is a specially designed master’s course for fully qualified physiotherapists.

This highly flexible academic and clinical master’s degree develops your physiotherapy skills in the specialist setting of sport.

By working with Bath’s team of sports practitioners, you’ll deepen your knowledge of advanced sports physiotherapy techniques, athlete management and performance enhancement.

You’ll also develop your:

  • knowledge of sports physiotherapy practice and ethical considerations at local, national and international levels
  • ability to work in multidisciplinary teams within sports environments
  • capability to provide safe and effective pitch-side emergency care
  • awareness of anti-doping legislation and procedures withing sports physiotherapy

Entry Requirements

You should have a bachelor’s honours degree or international equivalent, typically a 2:1 or above.

To apply for this course, you should have an undergraduate degree in physiotherapy.

You should have current registration or licence to practice as a physiotherapist with the Health and Care Professions Council and should hold Chartered Physiotherapist status.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

By the end of the course, you will be qualified to work with athletes and sports teams at the highest level. You will be able to apply evidence-based practice principles to deliver innovation in sports physiotherapy.

Some of our recent graduates have taken roles with:

  • The Olympic and Paralympic Games
  • Professional clubs and teams
  • The English Institute of Sport
  • Birmingham Royal Ballet

If you want to continue your research alongside professional practice, we also provide an established Professional Doctorate, offering a route for MSc students interested in continuing their research to doctoral level while working part-time.

Module Details

Year 1

Semester 1

Compulsory units

  • Sports environment
  • Sports physiotherapy in practice I

Semester 2

Compulsory units

  • Foundations of biomechanics and physiology for clinicians
  • Sports physiotherapy in practice I
    Continued

Year 2

Semester 1

Compulsory units

  • Athlete management
  • Sports physiotherapy in practice II

Semester 2

You’ll choose one optional unit.

Compulsory units

  • Applied athlete management
  • Sports physiotherapy in practice II
    Continued

Optional units

  • Applied football medicine
  • Contemporary issues in sport and exercise
  • Dance and the artistic athlete
  • The travelling athlete

Year 3

Semester 1

  • Compulsory units
  • Research project

Semester 2

Compulsory units

  • Research project

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