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Sports Therapy

  • 1 Study option
  • Undergraduate
2 Campuses
Awarded by:
Scottish Qualifications Authority trading as SQA
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Course summary

The HND Sports Therapy builds on the HNC Soft Tissue Therapy and provides you with an industry recognised qualification, and the knowledge and skills necessary to work as a sports therapist. It also prepares you to progress onto a degree in sports therapy or another higher education award in a related field.

If you are interested in a career that involves working with people in the sports industry in the maintenance or improvement of their sporting performance and treating and rehabilitating injuries that affect their output, then this is the course for you.

Completion of this award may allow you to gain employment in sports clubs, either working independently or with a team of other professionals (eg physiotherapists, coaches, strength and conditioning specialists, or nutritionists). Additionally, you could seek work in single or multi-disciplinary clinics providing clinical sports massage treatments.

Modules

Module outline

Year 1 - HNC

Subjects may include:

  • Basic objective and subjective assessment

  • Clinical and team experience 1

  • Clinical sports massage

  • First aid for sport and fitness

  • Flexibility training

  • Functional anatomy

  • Pathology and aetiology of sports injury

  • Prevention and management of sports injury

  • Research investigation in sport

  • Sports massage for events and special populations

  • Sports therapy: anatomy and physiology

  • Sports therapy: exercise principles and testing

  • Sports therapy: graded unit 1

  • Sports therapy: professional standards

Year 2 - HND

Subjects may include:

  • Biomechanics and movement patterns

  • Clinical and team experience 2

  • Clinical assessment of sports injuries

  • Electrotherapy

  • Functional anatomy 2

  • Graded unit 2

  • Health promotion

  • Plan and deliver exercise-based sports rehabilitation

  • Psychology of sports injury

  • Sports fitness and return to participation criteria

  • Sports taping

This outline reflects the modules as currently delivered and is subject to change.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Inverness
  • Perth

Study options

  • Higher National Diploma • Full-Time • 2 Years

Start dates

Application codes

Institution code:
H49

How to apply

Application codes

Institution code:
H49

This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available.

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Entry requirements

Typical qualification requirements

UHI does not use Tariff points, and accepts a range of qualifications. Applicants with other relevant qualifications or experience will be considered on an individual basis. https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/courses/hnd-sports-therapy/

Additional entry requirements

Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) / Disclosure Scotland Check
Successful applicants will be required to complete a PVG Disclosure Check and become PVG Scheme Members in order to undertake this course.
Interview
You will be invited for a group and/or individual interview where you will get the opportunity to find out more about the course and tell us why you are interested in this subject area

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)5.5Overall score of 5.5 with no element below 5.0
PTE Academic50Minimum score of 50
TOEFL (iBT)69Min 69 or above with min 17 in each section

Our programmes are taught and examined in English. To make the most of your studies, you must be able to communicate fluently and accurately in spoken and written English in an academic environment and provide certified proof of your competence before starting your course. Please note that English language tests need to have been taken no more than two years prior to the start date of the course. The minimum English language requirements to study at the University of the Highlands and Islands are detailed below:https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/studying-at-uhi/international/eligibility/english-language-requirements/

Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

UHI is committed to achieving widening access, and achieving a fair balance of entrants to higher education. Widening access can be broadly defined as ‘ensuring fair access to higher education’. Widening access is principally about ensuring that those who have the ability and potential to benefit from a higher education, irrespective of their background or economic circumstances can do so.

Learn more on the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) website

International entry requirements

This course is not currently available for international students (including EU/EEA and Swiss nationals without settled or pre-settled status in the UK) requiring Student Route visa sponsorship to study in the UK. Students currently living in the UK and assessed as international for fees please refer to our website.

Further information for International applicants can be found on our website. https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/studying-at-uhi/international/

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.

This course may have Historical entry grades data available, please select a course option to view.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Per year tuition fees

LocationFeeYear
Scotland£1285*
England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands & Republic of Ireland£7886*
EU & International£9460*

* This is a provisional fee and subject to change.

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

For course specific fees information please refer to the Fees/funding tab on the university website course page.

You can also find information on additional funding available such as bursaries and scholarships at https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/studying-at-uhi/first-steps/how-much-will-it-cost/funding-your-studies/bursaries-and-scholarships/

Sponsorship information

Scholarships, Bursaries, Awards and Discretionary Funds

Further information on funding, scholarships and bursaries can be found on our website.

https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/studying-at-uhi/how-much-will-it-cost/funding-your-studies/bursaries-and-scholarships/

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