Musculoskeletal Sport Science and Health MSc

**Our Musculoskeletal Sport Science and Health MSc will provide you with knowledge of the scientific concepts and procedures underpinning sport and exercise-related musculoskeletal function, measurement, injury and treatment.**<br/><br/>The programme allows you to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to the scientific study of sport and exercise related musculoskeletal health and performance including anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, bioengineering and kinesiology. <br/><br/>You will also have the opportunity to carry out in-depth and critical research in selected areas of interest. Examples of the projects undertaken by past students include: the biomechanics of dynamic sport movements and performance; musculoskeletal modelling to examine muscle force; bone health and exercise in older people; retrospetive case-control risk factors of sport injury; skeletal muscle adaptation; extracellular vesicle therapeutics; and strength and conditioning exercise for performance improvement, injury prevention and rehabilitation.<br/><br/>The Musculoskeletal Sport Science and Health programme is delivered in connection with the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine – East Midlands (NCSEM-EM), an Olympic legacy project aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of the nation.<br/><br/>Combining the state-of-the-art facilitates of the NCSEM-EM with the unparalleled sport environment at Loughborough provides a unique postgraduate learning experience for the scientific study of sport and exercise-related musculoskeletal health and performance.<br/><br/>The NCSEM-EM has five key themes that cover research, education and clinical activity: physical activity in disease prevention; exercise in chronic disease; sports injuries and musculoskeletal health; mental health and wellbeing, and performance health.<br/><br/>Core study areas include orthopaedic sports biomechanics; neuromuscular function; physiology of endurance performance; risk and recovery of sport injury; research methods for sport and exercise; basic science and regenerative therapy; emerging technologies for health and wellbeing; motion analysis of human movement; developing computer models for sports biomechanics; sports injury, and a research project.