BSc (Hons) Sport Rehabilitation Bachelor's degree at Liverpool Hope University

This module provides the foundations for understanding the assessment and management of musculoskeletal conditions. You will develop knowledge of the structure and function of the musculoskeletal system, including its anatomy, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of common pathological conditions. Professional clinical standards and safety are embedded throughout to ensure best practice.

This module builds a strong foundation in research skills and sport psychology, which are essential in the context of a sport rehabilitation degree. You will learn the basic methods of designing studies, collecting and analysing data, and presenting findings. In sport psychology, you will examine key theories such as motivation, confidence, and personality, assessing their impact on participation, performance, and rehabilitation.

This module introduces the fundamentals of anatomy, physiology, and movement science. Adopting a systems approach, you will study areas such as the lungs and gas exchange, the heart and cardiac function, and muscle physiology. Laboratory-based practical classes provide the opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge in real-world settings.

In this module, you will study the relationship between human movement, sports performance, and rehabilitation. You will explore motor control, investigating how skilled movement is produced, learned, and developed. Through biomechanics, you will learn how to quantify human movement via kinematic and kinetic approaches, and understand key concepts such as work, power, force, speed, and velocity. Laboratory and fieldwork activities support your learning, and you will also examine physical (in)act

Building upon Musculoskeletal Assessment at level one, Injury Diagnosis further develops clinical assessment skills to incorporate advanced knowledge and understanding of injuries and how to clinically assess for these. Subjective assessment will be combined with Objective assessment of patients including, functional, passive and resisted testing and special orthopaedic tests to be able to commence a working diagnosis for injury.

Building upon clinical interventions such as massage, this area will develop student's intervention skills to include spinal and peripheral joint mobilisations as well as taping and strapping and muscle energy techniques. This will link closely with the Principles of Exercise Prescription area to create effective injury management.

Considering common injuries, students will develop skills in early, mid and late stage exercise prescription in rehabilitation. Student's will use clinical reasoning skills to apply different types and degrees of exercises to create clinically appropriate progressive exercise rehabilitation strategies to benefit a range of injuries in a variety of patients.

You will study applied aspects of sports psychology such as aggression, attribution and coach-athlete relationships.

With a focus on the physiology of cardiac function and aerobic function, you will understand adaptations to exercise training and the measurement of key parameters such as cardiac output, lactate threshold and maximal oxygen uptake. Accompanied by a series of laboratory-based workshops where you will make direct measures of cardiac and aerobic function.

Effective training programme design and evaluation is central to maximising the effects of training. You will learn about the fundamental principles of strength, speed and agility training and how to program them within an overall training or rehabilitation programme. Lectures are supplemented with practical sessions in the field to understand best practice in the measurement of these parameters.

Through practical sessions in the purpose-built laboratory and a lecture series, you will develop your skills and knowledge in kinematic analysis, with an emphasis on gait analysis and measurement of muscle.

Building on your first year of study, you will develop your understanding of the relationship between physical activity and health to examine the effectiveness of different health promotion campaigns to promote physical activity across a range of different communities and environments, such as disability, minority groups and the workplace.

In your second year you will start to plan for your final year research project. From developing a research proposal to evaluating your data through statistical analysis you will be supported to produce the best possible dissertation. You will also consider your future career and understand how effective data analysis techniques are essential for the workplace in our field.

Students will learn evidence-based screening strategies and accompanying exercise strategies to decrease the risk of injury in individuals

Students will complete this advanced 'first aid' course which is endorsed by the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh – this standalone qualification is essential to anyone wanting to work in professional sport and is a pre-requisite for gaining registration with BASRaT. All aspects of immediate pre-hospital care and management are covered including medical emergencies, shock, thoracic injuries, head injuries, cardiac arrest, acute fracture and spinal injury.

Students develop their knowledge, skills and practise by combining these essential areas to develop return to play strategies from early stage rehab to Return to Play

Student's will further develop their understanding and practical clinical intervention skills to an advanced level to enable them to create effective injury management plans.

With ever increasing rates of non-communicable disease, you will study best practice in prescribing exercise for the promotion of health in a range of different diseased and healthy populations, such as diabetes, osteoporosis, pregnancy and children.

A scientific view of structuring and programming training, considering issues such as screening, age, sex, recovery, sleep and concurrent training

Understanding growth, development, physical literacy, issues of maturation and the physiology of training and overtraining in children and adolescents.

Based predominantly in the human movement laboratory, you will utilise motion capture and force-plate analysis to learn how to produce a 3-D analysis of sports performance and technique analysis.

An independent research project with the purpose of discovering new findings in the field of Sport Rehabilitation