Exercise Rehabilitation Bangor University

Overview

The  Exercise Rehabilitation  programme at Bangor University  will assimilate evidence-driven physical and psychological approaches that will equip you with a multi-disciplinary perspective on the role of habitual physical activity and/or exercise when working with individuals in rehabilitative settings.

Career opportunities:

All the School’s postgraduate programmes are designed (with further training where appropriate) to enhance the career prospects of Sport, Health and Exercise Science graduates. 

Career destinations of Bangor postgraduates include: the Home Country Sports Institutes, National Governing Bodies, the Olympic Medical Institute, Professional sports teams and organisations, the fitness industry, the NHS (hospitals and Primary Care Trusts), Teaching and Education (after completing a Postgraduate Certificate of Education). Further postgraduate study (ie Doctoral research) is another vocational route.

This specific degree will equip you with the knowledge & skills to address societal problems including an aging population and lifestyle diseases such as obesity. Specifically, this degree in Exercise Rehabilitation will prepare you for careers in healthcare (e.g., NHS and private settings such as Spire Healthcare); the fitness industry (e.g., Nuffield Health); the health and well-being industry (e.g., Complementary and alternative medicine providers); and Public Health (e.g., Public Health England and Wales).

Many of the recent graduates have combined this degree with vocational qualifications or further postgraduate study to allow careers in Teaching and Education, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Cardiac Rehabilitation, and research.