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This module will take a biopsychosocial approach to the teaching of reconditioning from injury and return to sport. Recovery from injury begins as soon as possible after an initial treatment of an acute injury and aims to restore the athlete to full quality of life and to a level of sports performance experienced prior to injury. Knowles (2016) highlights rehabilitation as being a medical model which aims to restore day to day functioning, whereas reconditioning is a performance based model aiming to restore the athlete to optimal sport functioning. 

This module focusses on the latter perspective through taking an interdisciplinary and optimal loading approach. This module has a critical theoretical and applied practical skills development focus, and meets a number of core competencies of a sport and exercise therapist e.g. rehabilitation and education and professional practice issues. The module will be heavily applied and use a problem based learning (PBL) to develop informed clinical reasoning skills drawing from previous knowledge, experience and contemporary literature. Students are expected to reflect on the sport and exercise therapy competencies developed in this module and how these have been experienced and achieved through work related learning. 

This module aims to develop an awareness of safe and effective working practice within sports injury reconditioning and a critical awareness and application of theory and empirical evidence to justify sports injury reconditioning decisions.

The assessment is designed to assess your knowledge and understanding of the following learning outcomes:

PLO1: Systematic and detailed knowledge of key issues in the study of sport and exercise therapy practice and the research that informs these issues

PLO2: Proficient use of established techniques and methods in sport and exercise therapy practice

PLO3: Knowledge and use of theories, techniques, and research methodologies to address complex and/or novel problems in sport and exercise therapy practice, including a critical understanding of the boundaries/limitations of the approaches adopted.

PLO4: A critical understanding of current debates and controversies in sport and exercise therapy practice

PLO5: Ability to use research to inform professional practice in sport and exercise therapy practice

PLO6: Ability to plan, execute, and evaluate projects that entail complex techniques and data collection to address complex and/or novel problems in sport and exercise therapy practice

PLO7: Ability to communicate complex problems and solutions in sport and exercise therapy practice to different audiences and in different formats

PLO8: Ability to plan and initiate appropriate future academic and professional development activities in the context of sport and exercise therapy practice with view to employment or future study in an independent manner

PLO9: A critical understanding of a value-led and athlete-centred approach to the study of sport and exercise therapy practice and how these values influence the study of sport and delegitimise, exclude, and privilege different topics, individuals and groups in society explain, demonstrate, critical analysis/synthesis/evaluate