This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
Students are required to undertake supervised clinical placement hours in order to gain eligibility for membership of the professional body. This module aims to provide the framework for students to undertake these hours and to support their development of professional skills and employability for the working environment. The module enables students to experience work with injured athletes in a variety of sports therapy environments and across disciplines. The majority of the module will be the demonstration of sports therapy skills within a clinical environment. Topics that will be covered include:
• Working in interdisciplinary teams and referrals
• Professional sports therapy organisations and continuing professional development
• Setting up and running a sports therapy practice.
• Anti-doping, substance abuse and the role of the sports therapist
• Electrotherapy theory and practice
• Taping and strapping theory and practice
• Immobilisation and protective devices, ambulation aids and gait analysis and re-education
• Common orthopaedic surgical procedures
• Differential diagnosis and special tests
• Injury prevention and risk factors
• Nutrition and psychology
• Hydrotherapy
Total contact hours: 95
Private study hours: 355
Total study hours: 450
Case Study – 15%
Marketing Leaflet – 15%
Practical – 20%
Log Book – 50%
200 Clinical Hours – Pass/Fail
Brukner, P. & Khan, K. (2006) Clinical sports medicine. McGraw Hill Medical. 3rd Ed. ISBN-10: 0074715208.
Higgs, J. et al. (2008) Clinical reasoning in the health professions. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. 3rd Edition. ISBN 0750688858
Magee, D.J. (2008) Orthopedic physical assessment. Saunders, London. 5th Edition. ISBN 0721605710
Nordin, M. & Frankel, D.L. (2001) Basic biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, London. 3rd Edition. ISBN 0683302477
Prentice, W.E. (2003) Rehabilitation techniques in sports medicine. McGraw Hill. 4th Ed. ISBN-10: 0072462108
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
See the library reading list for this module (Medway)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes. On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
Assess, plan, and deliver safe and effective sports therapy practice.
Critically reflect on personal strengths and weaknesses in the context of the role, limitations and competencies of a sports therapist.
Demonstrate the application of business skills to the promotion and management of sports therapy practice.
The intended generic learning outcomes. On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
Apply information technology: through coursework; accessing contemporary research; and managing in the workplace.
Apply problem solving: through critical analysis and clinical reasoning.
Plan and manage learning: through planning and completing self-directed learning.
Self-appraise and reflect on practice: through evaluation of their own and others' clinical practice.
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