The Master in Sports Physiotherapy online is designed for physiotherapists specialising in sports rehabilitation and performance. This advanced program combines cutting-edge knowledge with practical techniques in injury prevention, recovery, and performance optimization, providing students with the expertise needed to excel in the field of sports physiotherapy.
If you’re looking for flexibility, our online methodology offers you what you need. Enjoy online classes, along with on-campus sessions for one week at our state-of-the-art facilities in Madrid, equipped with cutting-edge technology to ensure the best learning experience.
Live the Real Madrid experience, enjoy an international trip where you will explore the most innovative management models in health and sports. Visit world-renowned sports institutions and learn alongside their professionals, allowing you to gain first-hand insight into how the sector's leaders operate.
View the spanish version of the Master: Máster Universitario en Fisioterapia Deportiva semipresencial
Private degree issued by Universidad Europea de Madrid
Classes in English | Start: 27 oct. 2025 | Escuela Universitaria Real Madrid Universidad Europea | Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sport |
Attend on-campus sessions for a week in Madrid. Train in state-of-the-art facilities at a leading university renowned for its scientific output in sports science.
Our Faculty is ranked among the top 25 in the world, according to the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities by the Shanghai Ranking 2024.
Universidad Europea is the only institution in Spain recognised by the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT). This quality seal guarantees that we meet the most rigorous international standards of academic excellence.
The 2018 National Sports Award Copa Stadium was granted to the Escuela Universitaria Real Madrid Universidad Europea for promoting education, research, and professionalization at both national and international levels in all aspects related to sports.
In addition to your training in Madrid, you have the opportunity to attend an international experience to gain insider knowledge of the sports industry. Share this experience with professionals, professors, and peers from various nationalities, expanding your global network.
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The online Master in Sports Physiotherapy Comprises 6 modules. At the end of the programme, the student will receive the Private Master’s Degree in Exercise and Sports Physiotherapy Online, granted by Universidad Europea de Madrid.
The athlete’s physiological environment: training is the first module of the program, with a value of 4 ECTS. This module begins the training process of the university master's degree in sports physiotherapy in an inclusive and global way in the sports field, that is, from the perspective of the prevalence of health in each sports population, of the most common sports injuries in each sport, as well as, from the perspective of training, its physiological bases, its planning, its specificity in each of the areas that are required in sport: resistance, strength, flexibility and speed.
The basic sciences module, which has its own course load and will be essential for the final achievement of the Master's degree, despite the fact that some topics may have been studied in the undergraduate training, is essential as a complement to the information already seen, knowledge of the specificity that each sports population has, each sport in the type of injuries that tend to appear frequently. Likewise, in order to work on prevention, diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and physical-sports rehabilitation, we must know the performance environment of an athlete, how training is planned and what the training principles of each of the physical properties are based on. -sports that an athlete trains to achieve performance.
“Multidisciplinaries Sciences” is the second module of the program, with a value of 4 ECTS. In this module the student is allowed to acquire a global vision in the field of sports, the athlete and the multidisciplinary work that is carried out to control the biopsychosocial factors that surround the health of the athlete, from the point of view of their nutrition, their psychology, the biomechanics that is applied to each sport, as well as the specific sports materials that are used in each sport, as well as the evaluation, diagnosis, decision making in emergency and urgent situations in sport.
The related sciences module, which has its own teaching load and which will be essential for the final achievement of the Master's Degree, complements the perspective that the sports physiotherapist must have on the athlete, to understand how other factors influence their health, the psychological aspect, the nutritional aspect and the use of sports equipment.
In this module you will learn to evaluate, diagnose and intervene in an emergency or urgent situation, as well as correctly develop the life support protocol that sometimes happens in sports.
This module will be developed in the first semester, through lectures, presenting in the classroom the concepts and procedures related to the subjects taught using the lesson method. Practical work will be carried out in theoretical classrooms.
The module of Prevention and Planning the Return to Play after a sport injury, seeks to enable the student to design a physiotherapy prevention plan based on scientific evidence and to be able to intervene in the areas of prevention, promotion and recovery of health, carry out clinical reasoning that leads to a physiotherapy diagnosis, clinical reasoning, propose improvement objectives, plan treatment strategies, propose a therapeutic intervention and establish a prognosis, through theoretical/practical knowledge already included in the study plans of the physiotherapy degree, although adapted to the sports environment.
The module of Basic Sports Physiotherapy Techniques seeks to enable the student to design a physiotherapy intervention plan based on scientific evidence and to be able to intervene in the areas of prevention, promotion and recovery of health, carry out clinical reasoning that leads to a physiotherapy diagnosis, propose improvement objectives, plan treatment strategies, propose a therapeutic intervention and improve the skills on differetn thecnichs and methods of physiotherapy.
The Advanced Techniques Sports Physiotherapy module seeks to train the student to plan treatment strategies, propose a therapeutic intervention. This is the brief description of the contents of the subjects taught in this module.
The Research Methodology and Clinical Documentation module aims to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to carry out the research activities of the and knowledge necessary to be able to develop the research activities of their own clinical field. their clinical field. It will also provide the students with the tools to be able to carry out documentation activities that will allow them to documentation activities that will allow them to adequately update current scientific knowledge, as well as a critical screening of clinical critical screening of the acquired clinical information.
Check your academic year schedule and find out which days you will have to attend on-campus classes.
Flexibility
Live virtual classes that will be recorded in case you cannot attend or want to see them again.
Support
You will have the support of our expert professors who will facilitate your learning, as well as an accompanying tutor who will guide you and help you achieve your goals.
Experiential Learning
Receive comprehensive training based on real-life cases combined with theoretical and practical learning.
At Universidad Europea, we are committed to an education that prepares you for the needs of the professional world. Thanks to our methodology, you will be able to gain the knowledge, skills, abilities and competences that provide maximum employability in a global world.
The Private Master’s Degree in Exercise and Sports Physiotherapy is designed for healthcare and sports professionals looking to advance their expertise in injury prevention, rehabilitation, and performance optimization. This program is ideal for those aiming to integrate innovative methodologies and cutting-edge technologies into their practice.
For access to the Accredited Private Master`s Degree in Exercise and Sports Physiotherapy online it is necessary to fulfill one of the following requirements:
The admission process to pursue an online undergraduate or postgraduate certificate at Universidad Europea can be carried out throughout the year, although enrolment on any of our programmes is subject to availability. In order to complete the process, follow these simple steps:
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You will need to send the specific documentation to your personal advisor
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Once your documentation has been reviewed, your personal advisor will contact you.
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Formalising the reservation of a place through our different methods of payment
Candidates shall not be charged, and their place shall not be guaranteed, until the reservation has been formalised. Get in touch with us!
Mr. Sergio Vázquez González
Co-director of Premium Madrid Health and Rehabilitation Center. Works as a physiotherapist for members of the National Junior Swimming and Synchronized Swimming Team at the Premium Madrid Health and Rehabilitation Center, as well as with professional athletes, amateurs and lower categories from a variety of different sports: indoor football, football, tennis, mountaineering, volleyball and running. Physiotherapist for the Fuenlabrada ACB Basketball Club.
Diego Miñambres Martín PhD
Head of medical multidisciplinary center and director of the innovation and researcher center of Premium Madrid.
IIn 2020, the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences was certified after the successful implementation of the System of Internal Guarantee of Quality under the SISCAL model, and was also awarded with institutional accreditation. .
Universidad Europea is renowned for its academic excellence and has been recognised worldwide with awards as prestigious as the European Seal of Excellence 500+, QualiCert certification, and the Madrid Excellence award.
In the international accreditation rating, QS Stars, Universidad Europea has obtained a total of four stars out of five. This external accreditation system determines the level of excellence achieved by universities in several areas. Universidad Europea has achieved the maximum score of five stars in employability, teaching, facilities and social responsibility.