This degree offers you the chance to strengthen your skills, knowledge and confidence before you advance to stage one of your honours degree.Set yourself apart as an industry-ready sports therapist and rehabilitation specialist, fully prepared to go into practice after graduation. Starting your studies with a foundation year gives you all the support you need to excel.Take a route which is designed especially for students considering a new career or who are keen to explore a new subject area.Apply theory to practice by undertaking over 200 hours of clinical placements working under expert supervision.Learn from highly experienced staff who regularly provide professional consultancy services to elite track and field athletes, golfers and footballers.Perfect your techniques in manual therapy, exercise therapy and sports massage to aid the rehabilitation process. Because this course is aligned to the professional guidelines set out by The Society of Sports Therapists, you’ll be fully prepared to go into practice as an injury and exercise-based rehabilitation and fitness specialist. You can also progress to roles working in multi-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary healthcare teams.Your qualification also puts you on the pathway to postgraduate education, including the exciting and innovative masters courses available at Derby. You could consider our MRes Sport and Exercise programme or our MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Science.