Orthopaedic Technology, Motion Analysis, and Movement Rehabilitation MSc

This course combines specialist areas of orthopaedic and musculoskeletal importance. These include rehabilitation, technology, and human movement analysis. It allows you to choose the topics that are of most interest to you.

Orthopaedic and rehabilitation technology helps with the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients. There is an increasing range of devices that improve diagnosis and treatment.

Motion analysis monitors and assesses human movement and posture. It does this in clinical, rehabilitation, and performance enhancement settings. It applies a wide and exciting range of technology enhanced methods.

Movement rehabilitation uses biomechanics to improve human function and performance. It helps to reduce injury risk. It also contributes to the rehabilitation and clinical management of patients and clients.

This MSc course is ideal if you want to further your education or training to the postgraduate level. It is particularly suitable if you have a background in:

• physiotherapy
• prosthetics
• orthotics
• rehabilitation
• other relevant health professions
• biomedical engineering
• sport and exercise science
• sports therapy.

Teaching takes place in our School of Medicine, based within a large NHS hospital. Through our state-of-the-art facilities, you'll study technology and processes such as:

• joint implants
• fracture fixation devices
• prosthetics
• orthotics
• other mobility aids
• clinical measurement and analysis of human movement
• rehabilitation techniques for orthopaedic, neurological, and musculoskeletal disorders.

You can apply for a place in our Clinical Observership Scheme. This will allow you to take part in active observation of a range of clinics and services in NHS Scotland. This will include orthopaedics, physiotherapy, and clinical mobility services.

You will also gain skills in conducting a research project and critical thinking. These are skills that employers are looking for. We will work closely with you to help you choose a research topic that is of interest to you.

In the first semester, you'll focus on functional anatomy, biomechanics, research design and methods. You'll gain academic and transferable skills and identify your research question. This will help you complete the early stages of your project.

In the second semester you'll choose one of two specialist pathways to follow:

• orthopaedic and rehabilitation technology
• analysis of human movement and movement rehabilitation.

Work on your research project will also continue during this semester.

In the third semester, you'll work on your research project.

This course gives you access to state-of-the-art facilities such as:

• marker, marker-less, and wearable motion capture systems (from Vicon and Theia)
• force and pressure mapping instrumentation
• electromyography (from Delsys)
• CAD and simulation software
• 3D printing.

Unlike many similar courses, you can choose to specialise in the topics that interest you.