Sport Rehabilitation and Conditioning BSc Welcome Pack
Welcome to Sport Rehabilitation and Conditioning BSc 2025.
Congratulations on receiving an offer to study with us! The information contained in this welcome letter is designed to give you a brief insight to our BASRaT-Accredited Sport Rehabilitation and Conditioning degree you have chosen to study, and the preparation that you can undertake to get ready for your studies.
We are really excited by the way our degree has developed since we started in 2019 and how our graduates are developing into multidisciplinary and multi-skilled professional sports rehabilitators. This course focuses on key study areas of expertise including modules related to: anatomy, physiology, sport massage and mobilisation, injury assessment and treatments, athlete screening, injury prevention, strength and conditioning, research methods and sport trauma management.
An important feature of our degree is the way we utilise our strong relationships with industry to help you to study in a ‘real world’ context and not just in the classroom. We will work with you to help develop your technical, personal and employability during the course in which you are required to attain a minimum of 400-hours work-based learning during the course.
We like to communicate with and showcase what our students are doing so you can find out more about the course and begin to network with our existing students by following our course Instagram page @uon_sportrehab
Your Course Leader
Brendon Skinner
Senior Lecturer in Sport Rehabilitation and Injury
Brendon.skinner@northampton.ac.uk
Welcome and Induction sessions
This is your induction timetable with online sessions starting on 2 and 9 September. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact induction organiser Brendon, Brendon.skinner@northampton.ac.uk.
Monday, 1 September
Session: Online Induction Session 1 – Preparing for this course and what to expect on it
- Time: 10:30am onwards (BST)
- Teams Link: Join the meeting now
- Meeting ID: 374 234 395 625 5
- Passcode: SQ9Nh6jY
Monday, 8 September
Session: Online Induction Session 2 – What will my teaching and learning look like + Your Q’s answered
- Time: 10:30am onwards (BST)
- Teams Link: Join the meeting now
- Meeting ID: 334 951 539 771 2
- Passcode: Eg2Gu7jZ
Monday 22 September – Friday 3 October
Welcome Week activities
From karaoke to outdoor cinema, wellbeing walks to Silent Disco, and much more – there’s something suitable for everyone.
See our Welcome timetable to find out more.
Equipment and preparation
Students are not required to buy any mandatory kit or textbooks to start this course. As a heavily practical based course, students will require sportwear for many of the modules. We will provide all students with one of our course branded t-shirts, and students can purchase further course branded kit from Kit Locker.
While purchasing this is not mandatory, we do encourage students to consider an additional pair of tracksuit bottoms / leggings for circumstances when completing work based learning activities and representing both our course and institution.
To help you prepare for this course we encourage students to spend some time familiarising yourself with our subject area. Some excellent resources to look at in readiness for this course include:
- Get Body Smart – this website provides some excellent content and activities to help you prepare for the anatomy and physiology that underpins our programme.
- Virtual sports injury clinic – this website will help build an understanding of injuries and their presentation.
- Physiotutors – this Youtube channel provides excellent examples of the injury assessment methods we will teach you.
Enhancing skills, building networks and engaging in the wider University community
As you develop and progress through this course you will be provided opportunities to engage in a wide range of skill development and employability focused activities. To support the accumulation of your required 400-hours our students work in our on-campus Sport Injury and Rehabilitation Clinic (SIRC) during which you will implement the skills you have learnt on the course, under fully qualified supervisors, with real clients, with real injuries giving you the much needed clinical experience to prepare for future working environments.
Students will also have the opportunity to undertake additional certificated courses in areas related to sport trauma and pitchside care, and the Therabody Licenced Massage Therapist.