SE315-6-FY-CO:
Advanced Sports Therapy
2025/26
Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences (School of)
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 02 October 2025
Friday 26 June 2026
30
06 March 2025
Requisites for this module
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BSC C603 Sports Therapy,
BSC C604 Sports Therapy (Including Placement Year),
BSC C605 Sports Therapy (Including Year Abroad)
This module develops students' examination and assessment abilities, develops manual therapy skills and introduces students to electrophysical agents as treatment modalities.
Students will develop their clinical reasoning skills through the use of evidence-based practice to justify their approaches to the assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries.
The aims of this module are:
- To extend students' knowledge and understanding of therapeutic modalities for applied practice.
- To enable students to critically evaluate a range of assessment techniques and treatment strategies, with emphasis on understanding their indications, contra-indications, and precautions.
- To develop students' abilities to explore different pathophysiological processes, healing trajectories, and expected treatment responses to enhance their clinical decision-making processes.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Perform a comprehensive assessment of a patient/client with a sport and exercise-related injury.
- Formulate a working diagnosis, evidencing the clinical reasoning process.
- Select, demonstrate, and justify the safe application of sports therapy treatment modalities for a given patient presentation with awareness of precautions and contraindications.
- Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to examination and assessment techniques, treatment strategies, and associated contemporary topics and/or issues in Sports Therapy.
The module will consist of online lectures to introduce key concepts, supported by small group activities within practical classes. Problem based learning will allow students to explore the presentations and treatment of common sports related injuries and understand the process and timings of healing and repair.
This module will be delivered via:
- One 3-hour integrated theory and practical class per week.
Integrated theory and practical classes will be used to introduce and review key concepts and to develop knowledge and application of injury assessment and treatment modalities. Problem based learning will allow students to explore mechanisms and presentation of common sports-related injuries, and to understand the underlying pathophysiology and healing trajectories. There will be directed and self-directed tutorial sessions for collaborative learning through group work and independent study.
Students will be given directed study tasks to prepare for classes and to consolidate learning after classes. Students should commit to independently practising the skills introduced in class, to solidify and enhance their confidence and competence in practical interventions and treatments.
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
OSPE |
|
70% |
| Coursework |
Theory Assessment |
|
30% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Sally Waterworth, email: s.p.waterworth@essex.ac.uk.
Tracy Lewis
SRES Office, email: sres (Non essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create the full email address)
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Mr Mark Leather
uclan
COURSE LEADER
Available via Moodle
Of 4 hours, 4 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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