Why study BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Therapy transcript

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Sport and exercise therapy is quite an exciting new up-and-coming sort of profession. We are accredited by the Society of Sports Therapy, which means that we work under five key areas of competency, so we teach our students how to prevent injury from occurring in the first instance, we also teach them how to examine and assess a new injury, also how to manage that injury, rehabilitate that injury, but also the sort of education and professional issues surrounding that injury as well.

Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Therapy, Lynsey Northeast, is standing in a sport therapy clinic talking to camera, with students in the background treating patients. Throughout are cutaways to students working in the clinic whilst wearing PPE, with skeletons on the side for teaching purposes, students writing notes, students being taught by academics whilst treating patients. Upbeat music plays in background.

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Sport and exercise therapy will lead to a career working with athletes and patients in different fields, in terms of musculoskeletal care, so that's injuries related to the skeletal system, the muscular system and also the neurological system. So it's a very applied hands-on career and degree, which means that no two days will ever be the same.

Lecturer of BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Therapy, Tom Gray is standing in the sport therapy clinic talking to camera, with students in the background treating patients. Throughout are cutaways to students working in the clinic whilst wearing PPE, with skeletons on the side for teaching purposes, students writing notes, students being taught by academics whilst treating patients.

0:43:11

We really emphasise the real-world learning component and the practical hands-on sort of element, so our students quite often will be in, doing practical sessions, that's where the majority of their their timetable will consist of. We also have a first-year massage clinic which is running behind me at the moment, we also have the the placement year opportunity which takes place between the second and third year, where students can take a year out in industry and they can actually do the job that they're looking to do.

Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Therapy, Lynsey Northeast, is standing in a sport therapy clinic talking to camera, with students in the background treating patients. Throughout are cutaways to students working in the clinic whilst wearing PPE, with skeletons on the side for teaching purposes, students writing notes, students being taught by academics whilst treating patients.

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We've worked hard at building a network of close contacts around the local area and beyond, to provide students with workplace opportunities.

Lecturer of BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Therapy, Tom Gray is standing in the sport therapy clinic talking to camera, with students in the background treating patients. Throughout are cutaways to students working in the clinic whilst wearing PPE, with skeletons on the side for teaching purposes, students writing notes, students being taught by academics whilst treating patients

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So it might well be that they're going out to different events and providing massage or sort of injury assessment and treatment at 10ks, marathons, half marathons. They also students this year are going to the Gothia world cup in Sweden to provide some pitch side treatment and also they'll be doing some examination assessment there as well, so lots of opportunities, lots of practical hands-on, we want you to be able to go out and do the job effectively.

Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Therapy, Lynsey Northeast, is standing in a sport therapy clinic talking to camera, with students in the background treating patients. Throughout are cutaways to students working in the clinic whilst wearing PPE, with skeletons on the side for teaching purposes, students writing notes, students being taught by academics whilst treating patients.

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One of the things about our staffing at Solent University, is that we are all practical hands-on doing the job ourselves, so we're all still working in industry. I think our facilities are actually phenomenal for our course, we've got our teaching clinic that's behind me, so that's our 10 bed teaching room, we've also got another one next door another 10 bed teaching room, in between that we've also got a rehabilitation gym, which has an anti-gravity treadmill, has an isokinetic dynamometer in there, so really kind of top top quality equipment in there as well. We've also got a brand new sports injury clinic, nine bed injury clinic in the top floor of our new sports building, which means the students can run a clinic in their third year. We've got three gyms, teaching gym the students will be in quite a lot for their sort of coaching and their rehabilitation modules. We've also got two sports halls, which again, they use a lot of times, which facilities that we have, but they also get to use them as well. In addition to that, we've got the physiology and the biomechanics lab that ensures that we it cover the sports science principles that are sort of fundamental to our programme.

Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Therapy, Lynsey Northeast, is standing in a sport therapy clinic talking to camera, with students in the background treating patients. Throughout are cutaways to students working in the clinic whilst wearing PPE, with skeletons on the side for teaching purposes, students writing notes, students being taught by academics whilst treating patients. Also to cutaways of specialist facilities including anti gravity treadmill with students using it, cutaways to students working in a gym, an empty sports hall with people playing basketball, and students with an academic using machine to measure VO2 max.

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So our students have fantastic career opportunities post-graduation, a range of different fields and environments. The obvious one would be in professional sports, but also an amateur level as well in private practices, our students can go on to either work in a private practice or set themselves up in their own business and further than that we've also started to develop ties within the NHS as well, so our students could go on to work as a musculoskeletal practitioner in an NHS environment. So I'd encourage you to come and study sport and exercise therapy with us here at Solent University because of our fantastic teaching team, our approach to teaching, our dynamic facilities and our real world opportunities that our students will engage with throughout their three years of study.

Lecturer of BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Therapy, Tom Gray is standing in the sport therapy clinic talking to camera, with students in the background treating patients. Throughout are cutaways to students working in the clinic whilst wearing PPE, with skeletons on the side for teaching purposes, students writing notes, students being taught by academics whilst treating patients

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