
Private Master's Degree in Exercise and Sports Physiotherapy (Online)
Online
DURATION
9 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Introduction
The Master in Sports Physiotherapy online is designed for physiotherapists specialising in sports rehabilitation and performance. This advanced program combines cutting-edge knowledge with practical techniques in injury prevention, recovery, and performance optimization, providing students with the expertise needed to excel in sports physiotherapy.
If you’re looking for flexibility, our online methodology offers you what you need. Enjoy online classes, along with on-campus sessions for one week at our state-of-the-art facilities in Madrid, equipped with cutting-edge technology to ensure the best learning experience.
Live the Real Madrid experience, and enjoy an international trip where you will explore the most innovative management models in health and sports. Visit world-renowned sports institutions and learn alongside their professionals, allowing you to gain first-hand insight into how the sector's leaders operate.
Why study Sports Physiotherapy Master?
- Scientific Evidence: Gain knowledge grounded in scientific evidence to develop treatment plans aimed at the swift return of injured athletes to competition.
- Experiential Learning: Develop practical skills using the most advanced techniques, equipping you to address diagnosis and therapeutic care, both protocol-based and urgent, within a multidisciplinary team framework.
- Leading Faculty: Learn from renowned professionals in sports physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and injury treatment, including members of the medical services of Real Madrid C. F.
- National Athletic Trainers’ Association: Train with a curriculum designed by the guidelines for certification of sports-specialised physiotherapists by the American Professional Association.
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Ideal Students
The Private Master’s Degree in Exercise and Sports Physiotherapy is designed for healthcare and sports professionals looking to advance their expertise in injury prevention, rehabilitation, and performance optimization. This program is ideal for those aiming to integrate innovative methodologies and cutting-edge technologies into their practice.
- Sports physiotherapists.
- Rehabilitation and recovery specialists.
- Professionals in physical therapy and sports performance.
- Health and medical staff in sports organizations.
- Specialists in injury prevention and recovery.
- Experts in aquatic therapy or neuromodulation techniques.
- Physiotherapists in elite or amateur sports settings.
Admissions
Career Opportunities
The online Master in Sports Physiotherapy Comprises 6 modules. At the end of the programme, the student will receive the Private Master’s Degree in Exercise and Sports Physiotherapy Online, granted by Universidad Europea de Madrid.
Module 1: The Athlete's Physiological Environment: Training (10 ECTS)
The athlete’s physiological environment: training is the first module of the program, with a value of 4 ECTS. This module begins the training process for the university master's degree in sports physiotherapy inclusively and globally in the sports field, that is, from the perspective of the prevalence of health in each sports population, of the most common sports injuries in each sport, as well as, from the perspective of training, its physiological bases, its planning, its specificity in each of the areas that are required in sport: resistance, strength, flexibility and speed.
The basic sciences module, which has its course load and will be essential for the final achievement of the Master's degree, even though some topics may have been studied in the undergraduate training, is essential as a complement to the information already seen, knowledge of the specificity that each sports population has, each sport in the type of injuries that tend to appear frequently. Likewise, to work on prevention, diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and physical-sports rehabilitation, we must know the performance environment of an athlete, how training is planned and what the training principles of each of the physical properties are based on. -sports that an athlete trains to achieve performance.
Module 2. Multidisciplinary Sciences (10 ECTS)
“Multidisciplinary Sciences” is the second module of the program, with a value of 4 ECTS. In this module, the student is allowed to acquire a global vision of the field of sports, the athlete and the multidisciplinary work that is carried out to control the biopsychosocial factors that surround the health of the athlete, from the point of view of their nutrition, their psychology, the biomechanics that is applied to each sport, as well as the specific sports materials that are used in each sport, as well as the evaluation, diagnosis, decision making in emergency and urgent situations in sport.
The related sciences module, which has its own teaching load and which will be essential for the final achievement of the Master's Degree, complements the perspective that the sports physiotherapist must have on the athlete, to understand how other factors influence their health, the psychological aspect, the nutritional aspect and the use of sports equipment.
In this module, you will learn to evaluate, diagnose and intervene in an emergency or urgent situation, as well as correctly develop the life support protocol that sometimes happens in sports.
This module will be developed in the first semester, through lectures, presenting in the classroom the concepts and procedures related to the subjects taught using the lesson method. Practical work will be carried out in theoretical classrooms.
Module 3. Prevention and Planning the Return to Play After a Sports Injury (12 ECTS)
The module of Prevention and Planning the Return to Play after a sports injury seeks to enable the student to design a physiotherapy prevention plan based on scientific evidence and to be able to intervene in the areas of prevention, promotion and recovery of health, carry out clinical reasoning that leads to a physiotherapy diagnosis, clinical reasoning, propose improvement objectives, plan treatment strategies, propose a therapeutic intervention and establish a prognosis, through theoretical/practical knowledge already included in the study plans of the physiotherapy degree, although adapted to the sports environment.
Module 4. Diagnosis and Essentials Methods of Sports Physiotherapy (12 ECTS)
The module of Basic Sports Physiotherapy Techniques seeks to enable the student to design a physiotherapy intervention plan based on scientific evidence and to be able to intervene in the areas of prevention, promotion and recovery of health, carry out clinical reasoning that leads to a physiotherapy diagnosis, propose improvement objectives, plan treatment strategies, propose a therapeutic intervention and improve the skills on different technics and methods of physiotherapy.
Module 5. Diagnosis and Methods of Sports Physiotherapy (12 ECTS)
The Advanced Techniques Sports Physiotherapy module seeks to train the student to plan treatment strategies and propose a therapeutic intervention. This is a brief description of the contents of the subjects taught in this module.
- Manual Functional Recovery.
- Prevention and Promotion of the athlete's health.
- Joint Examination and Massage Therapy.
- Functional Bandages.
- Electrotherapy in Sport.
- Protocols in Sports Physiotherapy.
- Pain and neurosciences.
- RUSI.
- Return to sport in tendinopathy.
Module 6. Master's Thesis (4 ECTS)
The Research Methodology and Clinical Documentation module aims to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to carry out research activities the and knowledge necessary to be able to develop research activities in their clinical field. Their clinical field. It will also provide the students with the tools to be able to carry out documentation activities that will allow them to documentation activities that will allow them to adequately update current scientific knowledge, as well as a critical screening of clinical critical screening of the acquired clinical information.
Program delivery
Online methodology
- Flexibility: Live virtual classes that will be recorded in case you cannot attend or want to see them again.
- Support: You will have the support of our expert professors who will facilitate your learning, as well as an accompanying tutor who will guide you and help you achieve your goals.
- Experiential Learning: Receive comprehensive training based on real-life cases combined with theoretical and practical learning.