SNIES: 111600
Title: sports physiotherapy specialist
Qualified registration: 010570 of June 29, 2023
Methodology: On Campus
Validity: 7 years
Duration: 2 semesters
Cost of academic semester 2024: $9.545.472
Number of credits: 28 credits
City: Medellín
Specialization in Sports Physiotherapy
Specialization in Sports Physiotherapy
General Presentation
The specialization proposal presented by the María Cano University Foundation is oriented towards a specific area of knowledge, such as Sports Physiotherapy, and makes it easier for physiotherapists to participate in the process of training, acquiring and developing skills that allow problem solving or the analysis of particular situations related to sports practice.
The intention of the Specialization in Sports Physiotherapy of the María Cano University Foundation is to train expert physiotherapists in a specific field, with the capacity to offer efficient and quality alternatives, allowing them in the different processes the possibility of designing, evaluating, implementing, promoting and disseminating prevention programs to reduce the appearance of sports injuries, establishing a cine-anthropometric evaluation of the sporting gesture through the use of new sports technologies, proposing and carrying out a treatment for the special dysfunctions of athletes that tend to reduce high incidence of injuries that are generated in them, with the capacity to facilitate sports rehabilitation processes, through new trends in sports rehabilitation; forging participatory actions that lead our graduates to make decisions for changes and create new opportunities in the current context.
Addressed to
Physiotherapists (physical therapy or kinesiology in case of having a foreign degree) and physiotherapy students in the last semesters, in addition to having a socio-humanistic, ethical and responsible sense. Likewise, who has a willingness to work in a team, vocation of service.
Professional profile
The Sports Physiotherapy Specialist of the María Cano University Foundation will have the opportunity to work in public or private sports-related entities at a national or regional level, sports clubs, physical conditioning centers, interdisciplinary sports science teams, specialized in sports, and may carry out actions related to:
• Sports rehabilitation
• Creation of epidemiological surveillance systems
• Approach to public policies in sports physiotherapy
• Physioprophylactic action plans
• Analysis of the sports gesture
• Evaluation of the athlete in different contexts
• Use of technologies in sport
• Ability to participate in research in the sports area.
Occupational Profile
The Specialist in Sports Physiotherapy of the María Cano University Foundation may work in the following profiles:
• Coordinator and/or leader in epidemiological surveillance system programs in sports.
• Coordinator of planning and design processes of sports physiotherapy care programs
• Leader in the development and execution of research, teaching and innovation projects in sports physiotherapy.
• Health professional who participates in interdisciplinary teams for the area of sports physiotherapy in sports entities of any level.
• Specialist physiotherapist who plans, executes and implements sports physiotherapy programs in sports entities of any level.
• Physiotherapist specialized in sports physiotherapy in sports entities of any level with different populations throughout the life cycle.
• Researcher in development projects in health promotion, disease prevention and rehabilitation, both for governmental and non-governmental entities, related to the field of sports physiotherapy.
• University professor in higher education institutions that offer undergraduate programs in physiotherapy and postgraduate programs related to the area of sports physiotherapy.
• Coordinator of rehabilitation programs in the area of sports, in order to reduce barriers to access to services.
Curriculum
Study Plan
Content
| Module 1 | |
| Physiology applied to sport | 2 |
| Biomechanical evaluation and analysis in sport | 2 |
| Methods of training physical abilities | 2 |
| Risk factors and prevention of sports-related injuries | 3 |
| Practice I – Epidemiological surveillance systems in sport | 4 |
| Research Seminar 1 | 1 |
| Total | 14 |
| Module 2 | |
| Sports rehabilitation | 3 |
| Transdisciplinarity in sport | 3 |
| Elective | 2 |
| Practice II – Sports readaptation | 4 |
| Research Seminar 2 | 2 |
| Total | 14 |
| Total program credits | 28 |
Total credits: 28
New applicant
To enter any of the graduate programs offered by Fundación Universitaria María Cano, applicants must follow the procedure below according to their admission status:
- Fill out the online registration form and send to the Registration and Academic Control office the following documents:
- Photocopy of the undergraduate degree certificate.
- Certificate of work experience (not essential).
- A legible photocopy of the identity document (enlarged).
- Four 3×4 size photo, light blue background.
- Print out a form for the registration fee payment of $150,000 COP, at the end of the online registration.