Sports Therapy (including foundation year)

Why study this course?

This is a four-year degree course with a built-in foundation year (Year 0). It's the perfect route into university if you can't meet the necessary entry requirements or don't have the traditional qualifications required to start a standard undergraduate degree. You'll graduate with a full undergraduate degree with the same title and award as those who studied the traditional three-year course.

More about this course

This course will help you gain the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to go on to a career in sports therapy. You’ll learn to assess, treat and rehabilitate athletes with sports injuries or dysfunction, and will gain a broad scientific background.

As well as developing your understanding of the management of sports injuries, you’ll also gain clinical competence thanks to a combination of practical classes and work-based learning. You can gain experience in our on-site clinic, which offers treatment to members of the public, as well as through placements with our extensive network of industry contacts.

Our excellent teaching staff include academic leader Nick Gardiner, who has written for a prestigious sports medicine publication.

You’ll also find this network useful in progressing your career after graduation. We have strong links with a number of renowned sporting organisations and professional bodies both within London and around the world.

Modules for this course are subject to change. For full up-to-date module details please see the course page on the university website.
Foundation year (Year 0) modules include:
Biology (core, 30 credits);
Chemistry (core, 30 credits);
Scientific Studies (core, 30 credits);
Foundation year project (sports) (core, 15 credits);
Foundations of Sports Science (core, 15 credits)

Year 1 modules include:

Sports Trauma Management and Soft Tissue Therapy (core, 15 credits)
Musculoskeletal Anatomy (core, 15 credits);
Human Physiology (core, 15 credits);
Professional and Core Skills (core, 15 credits);
Introduction to Biomechanics (core, 15 credits);
Fundamentals of Sports Therapy (core, 15 credits);
Physiological Principals of Training (core, 15 credits);
Applied Sports Science (core, 15 credits)

Year 2 modules include:

Exercise Physiology (core, 15 credits);
Sports Rehabilitation: Early and Intermediate (core, 15 credits);
Clinical Examination and Assessment in Sports Therapy (core, 15 credits);
Biomechanics of Human Movement (core, 15 credits);
Sociology of Effective Coaching and Teaching (option, 15 credits);
Sport Psychology: Controlling Individual Performance and Exercise (core, 15 credits);
Sports Rehabilitation: Late and pre-discharge (core, 15 credits);
Peripheral Manual Therapy (core, 15 credits);
Environmental Exercise Physiology (core, 15 credits);
Sports Science Research Methods (core, 15 credits)

Year 3 modules include:

Sports Science and Therapy Dissertation (core, 30 credits);
Sports Therapy Work Placement (core, 30 credits);
Spinal Manual Therapy (core, 15 credits);
Clinical Biomechanics (option, 15 credits);
Clinical Exercise Physiology (option, 15 credits);
Sport Psychology and the Elite Athlete (core, 15 credits);
Coaching Pedagogy and Practical Application (core, 15 credits);
Electrotherapy (core, 15 credits);
Business Development in Sport (option, 15 credits)

Assessment consists of progress tests, online tests, coursework, practical reports and presentations, exams and a final year dissertation.