Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

Learn how to help people with neuro-musculoskeletal complaints recover from injury and make a major difference to other people’s lives through treatment and rehabilitation.

Our Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation degree will give you plenty of practical experience and the opportunity to work with real clients in our Staffordshire University Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Clinic.

Under supervision from staff, you could be dealing with anything from knee or back injuries through to complex musculoskeletal cases. Patients include elite athletes and specialist communities such as older people and those with comorbidities (such as cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases amongst others).

You’ll learn in our pioneering new Telehealth Hub - an industry leading facility which enables students to develop skills in digital sport, exercise and healthcare. Students use the telehealth facility to assess, educate, monitor, and/or deliver healthcare interventions virtually. With more and more healthcare providers using web-based systems to provide care to patients, the skills learnt in our hub are future-proofing our students and preparing them for success in their future careers.

Our BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation degree leads to a range of exciting careers, whether you have ambitions to work in the professional sports environment or go into private practice.

What’s more, we are accredited by the British Association of Sports Rehabilitators (BASRaT), which means we meet rigorous national standards and you have access to student membership.

On the course, you’ll learn how to do injury assessment, perform soft techniques like massage and joint mobilisation, and offer exercise for healthy clients and rehabilitation purposes.

You’ll put techniques into practice in our Rehabilitation Zone - that’s kitted out with Olympic weightlifting equipment and cardiovascular machines - and in our physiology lab, where we have specialist facilities for testing and measuring human performance.

There are also several modules aimed at building your research skills, culminating in a major research project in your final year.

You will be able to draw on the expertise of our research-active academics and staff with a wealth of clinical experience as sports therapists and rehabilitators.

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.

Year One Core: Clinical Assessment (Lower Extremity); Clinical Assessment (Upper Extremity); Exercise Prescription; Injury and Trauma Management
Year Two Core: Evidence Based Practice; Pathology, Clinical Assessment and Treatment - Peripheral; Clinical Assessment and Treatment - Vertebral; Rehabilitation, Strength and Conditioning
Year Three Core: Exercise for Special Populations; Independent Investigational Project; Multidisciplinary Practice; Professional Clinic

Your course will provide you with opportunities to test your understanding of your subject informally before you complete the formal assessments that count towards your final mark. Each module normally includes practice or ‘formative’ assessments, for which you receive feedback from your tutor. Practice assessments are developmental and any grades you receive for them do not count towards your module mark. There is a formal or ‘summative’ assessment at the end of each module. This includes a range of coursework assessments, such as essays, reports, portfolios, performance, presentations, final year, independent project and written examinations. The grades from formal assessments count towards your module mark