Physiotherapy
What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy is a healthcare profession which views human movement as central to the health and wellbeing of individuals. Physiotherapists assess and maximise patients’ movement and functional potential through treatment, rehabilitation, health promotion and preventative healthcare.
The core skills used by Physiotherapists include manual therapy, therapeutic exercise, and electrophysical agents. Physiotherapists demonstrate an appreciation of the psychological, cultural and social factors which influence people and communities and they work as part of multidisciplinary healthcare teams to maximise patients’ independence.
Why study Physiotherapy?
As a student physiotherapist you will learn about and experience a broad and varied range of clinical specialisms in a variety of practice settings. Physiotherapists work in healthcare provision in the community, acute hospitals, schools, industry and private practice for patients of all ages. Student physiotherapists will all experience work placements in the core areas of neurological, musculoskeletal and cardiopulmonary physiotherapy as well as many others.
Physiotherapy graduates are eligible to apply for registration with the Health Professions Council, which is a pre-requisite for employment in the NHS, as well as the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, the professional body of physiotherapists in the UK.
Qualified physiotherapists work as autonomous practitioners and may seek to specialise in roles that cross professional and organisational boundaries.
Why study physiotherapy at UEL?
A variety of routes to achieving a physiotherapy degree are available to prospective students at UEL including full time, part time and situated learning routes. UEL students form a diverse and vibrant community and have opportunity for common learning with students on other programmes within the School of Health, Sport and Bioscience. We have close links with NHS partners across London and our students have a good rate of success in gaining employment at the end of their studies. Students benefit from access to first class facilities in the clinical education building opened by the Duchess of Cornwall in 2008. The staff at UEL teach on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within the School and have a strong and developing research profile.
New students joining us on this programme please download this PDF for some pre-reading to the programme.
Programmes within Physiotherapy:
* This programme is part of the Professional Health Sciences Post Graduate Framework - a range of accredited short courses and modules offering clinicians the opportunity to design a programme to meet their personal needs and aspirations.
Applications for this full time programme starting in September should be made by direct application. Please DOWNLOAD, COMPLETE and EMAIL the Undergraduate Application Form to study@uel.ac.uk
For further information about physiotherapy admissions please e-mail us at physiotherapyadmissions@uel.ac.uk
