Sport Rehabilitation BSc (Hons)
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UCAS Code: C602|Duration: 3 years|Full Time|Hope Park
UCAS Campus Code: L46
Accredited|Work placement opportunities|International students can apply
About the course
Our Sport Rehabilitation degree gives you the needed knowledge and skills to work as a Sport Rehabilitation professional. You'll learn how to improve health and function for people with injuries, illnesses, and diseases. This includes everyone, from beginners to top athletes. This degree also aims to improve public health.
You will be taught by skilled and registered Graduate Sport Rehabilitators, Sports Physiotherapists, and active researchers in Sport Rehabilitation and Sport and Exercise Science. The course focuses on practical skills. You will work in small groups in our specialised clinical rooms, strength and conditioning suite, biomechanics facility, and exercise physiology lab. You’ll also get to apply your knowledge in real-life settings through placements.
Studying Sport Rehabilitation at Liverpool Hope University will deepen your understanding of theories and principles related to sport injuries and rehabilitation, including:
- Clinical musculoskeletal anatomy
- Principles of rehabilitation and injury management
- Screening and injury prevention
- Massage, manual therapy, taping, and strapping techniques
- Return to sport performance
- Exercise prescription
To earn BASRaT accreditation, you will study the physiology, psychology, and biomechanics of sport and exercise. You’ll also learn research skills and data analysis.
Course structure
Teaching on the Sport Rehabilitation degree is delivered through a combination of lectures, where students are taught in larger groups, alongside seminars and practical sessions in smaller groups of around 15–20 students. You will also gain hands-on experience through vocational and clinical placements, as well as practical sessions at Plas Caerdeon, the University’s Field Centre in Snowdonia National Park, Wales.
In your first year of study, you will typically have around 12 teaching hours each week, which reduces to approximately 10 hours in your second and third years. Alongside structured teaching, you are expected to dedicate additional time to independent study and to completing your clinical placements.
Placements
Placements are a core part of the Sport Rehabilitation degree, giving you the opportunity to apply your knowledge in real-world environments. You will complete a minimum of 400 placement hours across a variety of professional settings, including sports injury and physiotherapy clinics, sports clubs, fitness centres, rehabilitation centres, and health promotion units.
The University works closely with a range of placement providers and will support you in securing opportunities. However, you are also encouraged to independently identify and arrange additional placements to enhance your experience.
Our current and past placement partners include Liverpool FC Women’s, Everton FC Academy, St Helens RLFC, Wigan Warriors, North Wales Crusaders RLFC, Caldy RUFC, and Healthiness Ltd. There may also be opportunities to gain international experience, with previous students completing placements with the Austrian Ski Federation rehab centre, Mallorca Physiotherapy, and St Luke’s Physical Therapy in Abu Dhabi.
Accreditation
Our BSc (Hons) Sport Rehabilitation degree is accredited by the British Association of Sport Rehabilitators (BASRaT). Upon completion of the degree, students will be eligible to apply for full BASRaT registration if they meet the requirements outlined below. This enables graduates to use the title of Graduate Sport Rehabilitator (GSR), and enter onto the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) in Health and Social Care Accredited Register.
To gain your degree in Sport Rehabilitation you must:
- pass every assessment in every year
- undertake 400 hours of formally recorded placements
To be eligible for Graduate Registration with BASRaT you must:
- Have completed a BASRaT accredited degree
- Pass the Registration Exam
- Be signed off as Fit to Practise by your academic institution
- Have completed an approved Pre-Hospital Trauma Care Qualification
- Completed 400 hours of supervised clinical placements
- Meet the BASRaT Standards of Ethical Conduct and Behaviour
Where these criteria are not met, you may have the option to retake the year or move to an alternative degree in either Health and Sport Science (the same curriculum content but different degree title) or Sport and Exercise Science.
Assessment and feedback
Throughout your three years of study you will have a number of assessments, individual and group presentations, laboratory reports, portfolios, practical tests, case studies, and clinical placement assessment.
In your final year you complete a dissertation research project.
Year One
Clinical Skills in Sport Rehabilitation
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.
Core Studies in Sport and Exercise
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.
Fundamentals in Sport and Exercise Anatomy and Physiology
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.
Fundamentals in Movement, Health and Performance
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)activity and key health indicators such as body composition.
Year Two
Injury Diagnosis
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.
Musculoskeletal Interventions
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.
Principles of Exercise Prescription
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.
Sport Psychology
You will study applied aspects of sports psychology such as aggression, attribution and coach-athlete relationships.
Physiology of exercise training
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.
Training programme design
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.
Sport Biomechanics
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.
Physical Activity, Health and Health Promotion
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.
Study skills and research methods
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.
Year Three
Screening for Injury Prevention
Students will learn evidence-based screening strategies and accompanying exercise strategies to decrease the risk of injury in individuals
Pre-Hospital Immediate Care in Sport
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.
Advanced Exercise Prescription and Biomechanics
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
Advanced Clinical Interventions
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.
Physical Activity, Exercise and Health
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.
Science of Sport Coaching
A scientific view of structuring and programming training, considering issues such as screening, age, sex, recovery, sleep and concurrent training
Paediatric Exercise Science
Understanding growth, development, physical literacy, issues of maturation and the physiology of training and overtraining in children and adolescents.
Applied Sport Biomechanics
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.
Research Dissertation
An independent research project with the purpose of discovering new findings in the field of Sport Rehabilitation
Entry requirements
| A-Levels | BBB |
|---|---|
| UCAS Tariff Points | 120 UCAS Tariff points must come from a minimum of two A Levels (or equivalent). Additional points can be made up from a range of alternative qualifications |
| BTEC | DDM |
| Access to HE | 120 Tariff Points |
| IB | 26 |
| Irish Leaving Certificate | 120 Tariff Points from Higher Level qualifications only |
| Welsh Baccalaureate | This qualification can only be accepted in conjunction with other relevant qualifications |
| T-Levels | Merit |
| Subject Requirements | Studying towards an A level or equivalent in Sport, PE or a Science subject. Offers will be subject to a Health Check Statement and an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service. |
International entry requirements
| Specific Country Requirements | Select your country |
|---|---|
| IELTS | Students must be able to evidence a suitable minimum English language score where English is not their first language (overall 7.0 and no individual element lower than 6.5). We also accept a wide range of International Qualifications. For more information, please visit our English Language Requirements page. |
Careers
Our students will have the opportunity to achieve success in many different vocations in the growing Sport, Health, Fitness, and Leisure industry, and associated professions such as Physical Therapy, Sports and Fitness, Public Health Schemes and Health Promotion Centres, Athletic and Personal Training and Occupational Health.
Graduate Sport Rehabilitators can be found working within professional sport, the NHS, private medical providers, the Fire Service, Ministry of Defence and many more. Many develop specialisms, such as strength and conditioning or specific joint injuries. You may also set up your own clinical practice to serve local sporting communities or you may decide to continue with teaching/research and apply for postgraduate training (MSc/MRes/MPhil/PhD) in related fields.
Enhancement opportunities
SALA
The Service and Leadership Award (SALA) is offered as an extra-curricular programme involving service-based experiences, development of leadership potential and equipping you for a career in a rapidly changing world. It enhances your degree, it is something which is complimentary but different and which has a distinct ‘value-added’ component. Find out more on our Service and Leadership Award page.
Study Abroad
As part of your degree, you can choose to spend either a semester or a full year of study at one of our partner universities as part of our Study Abroad programme. Find out more on our Study Abroad page.
Tuition fees
The tuition fees for the 2026/27 academic year are £9,535* for full-time undergraduate courses.
If you are a student from the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, your tuition fees will also be £9,535*.
The University reserves the right to increase Home and EU Undergraduate and PGCE tuition fees in line with any inflationary or other increase authorised by the Secretary of State for future years of study.
*subject to Council approval.
Additional costs
On top of your tuition fees, we advise you to consider the cost of the books that will be suggested as key reading/reference books. All books will be available in the library, but in limited numbers. We suggest setting aside around £250 for purchases, but remember that costs of books vary depending on where you buy them.
Throughout the duration of study, within our clinical and laboratory facilities, and when representing the University on placement you must wear suitable clothing. We expect you to invest in our course-branded clothing; the current range and costs can be viewed and purchased online. In travelling to placements there may also be costs involved for transport.
You will also need to consider the cost of your accommodation each year whilst you study at university. Visit our accommodation pages for further details about our Halls of Residence.
Scholarships
We have a range of scholarships to help with the cost of your studies. Visit our scholarships page to find out more.
International tuition fees
The International Tuition fees for 2026/27 are £14,500.
Visit our International fees page for more information.