Movement Science and Multimodal Rehabilitation

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This Programme has been designed to allow a sports therapist or a physiotherapist to continue professional and educational development by consolidating, enhancing and extending their expertise and abilities in biomechanical analysis, and applying them for clinical practice in sports therapy and musculoskeletal rehabilitation.

A key feature of the course is its integration of the theoretical and practical components needed to work professionally in their respective clinical practice.

This course provides you with postgraduate skills in application of movement science in assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries and rehabilitation. You also learn how to design and implement custom-made, exercise-based rehabilitative programmes developed from applied knowledge of the pathomechanics of injury. Other professional skills may be practised within the modules and applied to more complex clinical scenarios, which will develop a higher level of sophistication of clinical reasoning and autonomous decision-making and problem-solving.

How you learn
You will develop a comprehensive and critical understanding of the knowledge, techniques and methodologies appropriate to research and advanced scholarship in the application of movement science principles in musculoskeletal injury rehabilitation. This is achieved through attending lectures, workshops, seminars and problem-based learning in core modules. In addition, tutorials, laboratory and e-learning sessions will be directed towards enabling you to make informed contributions to the seminar and workshop discussions. Research skills will be further developed during the seminars and workshops in modules.

Thus you will target your acquired skills towards more specialist fields of enquiry. This is designed to provide a platform from which you can proceed to complete coursework for core modules and an original research project.

How you are assessed
All modules in this programme employ a variety of assessment methods to facilitate the development of key skills in this programme. These include written, practical exam, essay, critical review, presentation, assessment, portfolio, proposal, and report.

These methods allow you to demonstrate a critical and systematic understanding of the relevant issues. You will be required to undertake appropriate research, using the skills developed in the core modules and this will provide the impetus for the development of your research proposal, the research required by the assessments in your core modules and eventually your research project. The research project will give you the opportunity to demonstrate an appropriate standard of research and enquiry into a specialist area, selected by the student, displaying an original and/or compelling study or review of that area.

Career opportunities
Successful completion of this course will give you the skills and attributes to meet the changing demands of health care, fitness industry, sport development, research, sport science support and enhance your ability to progress within your profession. It will enable you to improve current practice, seek promotion and/or develop a wider role in relation to leadership or policy positions.

Core modules
* Biomechanics and Anatomy of Movement in Sport
* Hydrotherapy for Rehabilitation
* Rehabilitation for Spinal Pain
* Sport and Exercise Research Project
* Student Independent Learning
* Understanding Research in Sport and Exercise Science

Modules offered may vary.

Successful applicants are expected to have an Honours degree (normally 2:2 or above) in Sports Therapy or Physiotherapy or equivalent.English Proficiency at IELTS 6.0 or equivalent English Language Requirements IELTS band: 6 IMPORTANT NOTE: Since April 2014 the ETS tests (including TOEFL and TOEIC) are no longer accepted for Tier 4 visa applications to the United Kingdom. The university might still accept these tests to admit you to the university, but if you require a Tier 4 visa to enter the UK and begin your degree programme, these tests will not be sufficient to obtain your Visa. The IELTS test is most widely accepted by universities and is also accepted for Tier 4 visas to the UK- learn more.

Postgraduate funding support
From September 2013 benefit from a 10% fees discount towards your postgraduate taught course (part-time or full-time) if you:

* are a continuing Teesside University student progressing from an undergraduate to postgraduate course or
* have graduated from an undergraduate course at Teesside University within the last two years (2011-12) or
* graduated with first-class honours from an undergraduate course at any other university within the last two years (2011-12)