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MSc - Master of Science
Edge Hill University
Part Time
Sep 2027
2 Year
In this course you advance your knowledge, sharpen your specialist skills, build on your professional experience with 200 hours of placement at master’s level. You’re a sports therapy graduate with accreditation from the Society of Sports Therapists, and you’re keen to shine as you launch your career. Our MSc Sports Therapy adds 200 hours of hands-on professional experience to your portfolio and boosts your CV with specialist niche skills and knowledge. You’ll boost your understanding of strength and conditioning training methods and advance your understanding of current thinking. Additionally, you’ll develop further professional insights into mental wellbeing issues in today’s performance sports industry. Sports therapy makes up one aspect of an athlete’s overall performance sports picture. Through hands-on experience and opportunities to reflect, you’ll become confident in making multidisciplinary plans with colleagues to benefit the athlete more holistically. You’ll leave us as a trusted sports therapist with extensive real-world experience in all aspects of contemporary sports therapy. Employers will value your extensive therapeutic skills and excellent patient care.
Advanced Professional Practice provides an opportunity to draw together key aspects of professional and applied practice to achieve a synthesis of learning. The module enables you to apply theory to practice in applied and vocational settings, undertaking a concerted period of professional experience within the sport and exercise environment. You will benefit from a practical context in which to apply and evaluate theoretical concepts leading to reflection and evaluation of the entire process. The aim is also to increase your awareness of work based culture and enhance your employability through more personally directed development of your practical competencies, self-confidence, clinical reasoning and adaptability. You will also enhance your interactive skills, including teamwork, communication, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
Advanced Research Project enables you to engage in an in-depth advanced research project specialising your focus on a relevant area of interest. The project will be written-up in the form of a journal article based on the styles and conventions of an international peer-reviewed journal. You may also have the opportunity to disseminate your findings to external audiences. This might provide the opportunity to engage with academics, practitioners, and/or other representatives of relevant organisations in the field.
Contemporary Issues in Clinical Practice develops employability skills and confidence when managing patients and athletes as a graduate sports therapist. The module will develop your contemporary clinical skills and enhance your understanding of the multidisciplinary considerations required to achieve a tailored approach to athlete and patient management plans. Assessment and treatment-based clinical practice skills will be built upon, taking both evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence into consideration. Additionally, knowledge and understanding of a multidisciplinary approach to patient care will be developed. Special consideration will be given to nutritional, psychological and ethico-legal elements of injury management, injury prevention and sports performance.
Critical Issues in Strength and Conditioning involves the critical analysis and application of contemporary practices in strength and conditioning research. The module will explore the need for different strength and conditioning approaches and programmes, depending on athletes’ needs. This will include the issues of strength and conditioning training for young athletes, senior athletes, and those with particular physical (dis)abilities. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the empirical foundations of contemporary training methods, systematically design an original planned training programme in a selected sport, and enhance your overall understanding of performance assessment in sport.
Mental Health Awareness for Performance Sport Athletes and Practitioners will develop your awareness of mental health and illness among performance sport athletes (throughout their careers and post-sport lives) and practitioners. The module will consider how mental health can be understood in performance sport settings and explore the ways in which groups including coaches, welfare officers, performance and support staff, and managers can effectively address the mental health needs of the performance sport athletes for whom they are responsible. Whether in performance settings or other areas of lifestyle management, the module reflects upon the opportunities and challenges of promoting positive mental health in performance sports organisations, as well as in the workplace setting more broadly. The role of mentoring, education and peer leadership in developing mental health awareness among athletes and other performance sports workers will also be discussed.
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