In our global society, adults live longer, there is a rise in amateur recreational fitness, and professional athletes are asking more from their bodies as they strive to excel. These factors place an increasing burden on our musculoskeletal systems at every age. As a result, physical therapy is a rapidly growing field.
Global healthcare systems are moving their focus to non-invasive management and recovery alternatives to circumvent the need for medication and surgery. Care now encompasses not only traditional post-disease and injury rehabilitation, but emerging concepts including proactive movement, screening, live-monitoring and injury prevention.
As our knowledge increases, physical therapists, allied healthcare professionals and researchers have a responsibility to integrate these emerging concepts into clinical practice.
Graduates with appropriate clinical qualifications can expect to go into higher positions in clinical practice in the NHS or in private practice. You will also be well placed to enter academic, clinical research or a biomedical and healthcare-related position in industry.
As well as the multidisciplinary knowledge you gain on this course, you will develop transferable skills in analysis and evaluation.
According to the Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of graduates in the 2018–2024 cohorts, our graduates have gone on to careers in: