BSc (Hons) Sports Injury Rehabilitation (with Foundation Year)

Program Overview

This Sports Injury Rehabilitation degree equips you with the skills to assess, manage, and prevent sports injuries, while developing your practical experience in various settings. Accredited by BASRaT, this program emphasizes a person-centered approach and prepares you for careers in professional sports clubs, self-employment, healthcare, and more. Practical partnerships with Widnes Vikings and other organizations provide hands-on learning in elite sporting environments.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This Sports Injury Rehabilitation degree will prepare you for the integrated sports and injury rehabilitation field and more focused environments such as sports teams and health promotion. You'll focus on the wider variables and impact of sports injuries and the importance of having a person-centred approach to care/treatment modalities. This course is accredited by the British Association of Sport Rehabilitators (BASRaT) and you will study in their accredited Physiology laboratory and state-of-the-art brand new Biomechanics laboratory. The program aims to develop your skillset in the assessment, management, and prevention of sports-related injuries. You will gain practical experience in a range of sporting and health-related settings. You will also be able to practice safely, competently and confidently to ensure they meet the exacting standards of becoming a Graduate Sports Rehabilitator (BASRaT).

Outline:

Year 1 (Foundation Year):

• Core Modules:
• Study Skills for Success: Focuses on academic conventions and time management skills to help you progress through your degree.
• Resilience in Higher Education and Beyond: Personal development and resilience are as important as academic skills in the accomplishment of your journey towards graduation.
• A Day in the Life: This module allows you to explore the potential career options open to you on completion of your chosen degree.
You will be exploring the professions linked to your degree and start preparing your graduate portfolio for employers.
• Life and Work in the Welsh Context: This gives you the opportunity to explore your subject area and/or desired career in relation to living and working in today’s Wales.
• Optional Modules:
• Numeracy: Choose this option if your degree requires a competent level of numeracy.
• Professional Communication in the Workplace: This will help you develop the skills and aptitude necessary to communicate effectively in a professional context.

Year 2 (Level 4):

• Modules:
• Sports Injury & MSK Assessment
• Introduction to Anatomy & Physiology
• Introduction to Research Skills
• Sports Massage
• Common Neuromusculoskeletal Injuries and Conditions
• Professional Practice and Communications

Year 3 (Level 5):

• Modules:
• Functional Rehabilitation 1
• Injury Treatment Modalities
• Functional Rehabilitation 2
• Psychology: Enhancing Performance
• Applied Exercise Physiology
• Academic Discovery – Building Strong Research Ideas

Year 4 (Level 6):

• Modules:
• Advanced Rehabilitation & Management
• Integrated Clinical Practice in Sports
• Clinical Reasoning
• Integrated Sport and Clinical Practice
• Independent Discovery

Assessment:

The assessment methods used across the program encompass the skills required for a Sports Injury Rehabilitation graduate. They include:

• Written assignments
• Practical examinations
• Critical reflection
• Presentations
• Laboratory reports
• OSCE (an observed structured clinical examination)
• Clinical placements

Teaching:

Wrexham University is committed to supporting students to maximize their academic potential. They offer workshops and support sessions in areas such as academic writing, effective note-making, and preparing for assignments. Students can book appointments with academic skills tutors, dedicated to helping them deal with the practicalities of university work. The University's Inclusion team can provide appropriate guidance and support should any students require reasonable adjustments to be made because of a recognized prevailing disability, medical condition, or specific learning difference.

Careers:

Following completion of this course, graduates may go on to pursue a career in the following areas:

• Professional sports clubs
• Self-employment in the private sector
• Partnership in a clinic or practice that offers physiotherapy, sports rehab/sport therapy services
• Working as a healthcare or wellbeing practitioner
• Exercise rehabilitation roles in the Armed Forces
• Teaching
• Studying a PhD or master’s degree

Other:

The course places emphasis on gaining practical experience. It draws on existing and exciting partnerships with professional sports personnel, health partner organisations and appropriate professional bodies. Our partnership with Rugby League’s Widnes Vikings will provide you with the opportunity to access real-world learning experiences within an elite sporting environment and benefit from a wealth of professional knowledge.

• Study a course that is part of a subject area rated 1st in the UK for teaching satisfaction in the Sports Science subject league tables, The Guardian University Guide 2024.