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University of Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom
We are lecturers and practicing professionals in Sports Science and Rehabilitation. Our undergraduate BSc/BA (Hons) Sports programmes are dynamic vocational degrees delivered with the physically active in mind, whether that is within the local community, the recreational or professional athlete. Our experience and expertise in professional sport and private industry allows the sports student to gain first hand and current knowledge in the field of sports medicine, exercise and training. We maintain strong links in industry, which provides our students opportunities for excellent work experience placements. Community events also allow students to voluntarily offer their skills to assist the competitor, which further strengthens the role and credibility that our sports students play within the health and exercise medicine spectrum. Our in-house Sports & Spinal Injuries Clinic and Athlete Development Centre also provide our means of actual practice and teaching where we welcome anyone wishing to have their injury managed, or fitness tested, advised and monitored to the highest standards using recent and researched methods to access our facility in Bolton One.

Friday 7 December 2012

Alter G training with Warrington Wolves


Hypoxic training in combination running with the Alter G's reduced load for one of Warrington's professional rugby league players using our facilities in his recovery from injury

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Warrington Wolves Pre-season Screening Day 2

Today we had the Wolves squad in again for their lower limb screening session, using isokinetics, motion analysis and more!

Wednesday 28 November 2012

Warrington Wolves Pre-season Screening Day 1

Ben Stirling, Paddy Mulligan and Pat Robertson from the medical team at Warrington Wolves brought their first grade squad in today for their first preseason screening session.  Today focussed upon upper limb testing, making good use of our isokinetic dynamometer as well as the players being fascinated with our Alter G treadmill!  Next week is lower limb, we look forwards to putting them through their paces once again.

Sunday 25 November 2012

Fin & Ads at the Heaton Park Manchester Mo Run 10k

The art of looking daft while doing a charity 10k run seems easy for these two!  Ads sports a monobrow, and Fin with the trademark Movember tash!

Friday 23 November 2012

Wigan Athletic FC player on the Alter G

A premier league player from Wigan Athletic FC visited us today with a specific goal in mind - to get back running again.  The Alter G anti-gravity treadmill allowed him to run at 20-30% of his body weight in order to gradually increase the ground reaction impact going through his lower limb.  Great to be involved with the rehabilitation of a professional footballer of this level!

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Wigan Athletic player in for motion screening

Today we welcomed a premier league player from Wigan Athletic to the University of Bolton's biomechanics laboratory in Bolton One for an in-depth motion screening assessment.  This consisted of several filmed movements that relate to lower limb and pelvic function in order to gain a real-time scope of possible injury-related dysfunction.

Sunday 18 November 2012

British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers Annual Symposium

Today, the British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT) held their 13th Annual Symposium and AGM at our new Bolton One - a day that saw over 100 delegates attend the symposium, gaining knowledge from keynote speakers, skills from workshop sessions and generally enjoying a well spent Sunday!  Ben Cormack, Mike Nicol, Mark Airey, Tom Sturdy, Dr John Morgan, Cyclone Airwalk, and our own Fionnuala Geoghegan put on excellent sessions and presentations that made the day so well.  Thanks also to Bolton students - the day wouldn't have gone smoothly without you!

Friday 9 November 2012

Super League Warrington Wolves player in for isokinetic assessment

This afternoon we welcomed a  Warrington Wolves Super League Rugby player in for a shoulder assessment on our isokinetic dynamometer.  All helps in getting these guys back to full recovery!

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Alter G arrives!!

Exciting times as we install an Alter G anti gravity treadmill in our Sport Science and Rehabilitation unit.  The possibilities for research, rehabilitation and athlete training are endless with this state-of-the-art kit. 

Monday 17 September 2012

Welcome new students!

We get another cohort of students underway on their journey in becoming a Graduate Sport Rehabilitator (GSR) today!  Welcome to the class of 2015!  The first year group to spend their whole education in our brand new Bolton One facility - Good luck everyone!

Monday 20 August 2012

East Manchester 10k

Thanks to Sport Rehab students Dave, Leanna and Shellian who put the elbows in at Phillips Park on Sunday 19th Aug for the East Manchester 10k.

Friday 20 July 2012

Recovery session for USA boxers

This morning all staff and a small student team welcomed the whole USA boxing team for their recovery session after a heavy week of training in preparation for the Olympics next week.  Massaging, stretching, mobilising and manipulating the Olympic hopefuls helped the boxers feel 'normal' again!  A successful day's work! Good luck next week.

Wednesday 18 July 2012

SSIC supports the USA Olympic Boxing team


Exciting times! In the lead-up to the Olympics, the University of Bolton's Sports and Spinal Injuries Clinic staff are providing clinical support to the USA Olympic Boxing team.  Monday and Tuesday this week saw medal hopefuls Michael 'The Bounty' Hunter and Stephan Shaw grace our facilities for some recovery treatment, with more of the team coming into Bolton One later this week.  More posts to follow on further developments with the boxers!

Tuesday 3 July 2012

Sports & Spinal Injuries Conference 2012

Thursday 28th June was a fanstastic day for us all!  6 world-class speakers including Len Funk, Sanjiv Jari, Colin Robertson, Andy Smith, Jonathan Harris and Rajev Sunjea gave their contribution from their respective speciality areas to a Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Management of Specific Sporting Injuries.  Clinicians and student placement providers from professional football, rugby league and private practice were invited in order to support our links to industry and maintain professional relationships.


Tuesday 26 June 2012

Megahike 2012

The Med Equip 4 kids charity held their annual charity Megahike at Hollingworth Lake Country Park this weekend.  Hikers trek a 50 mile route through the Lancashire hills starting and finishing at Littleborough Rugby Union Club.  Adam & Ivor Irwin provided the recovery massages for the tired and aching backs and legs from 9.30pm until 4.30am!  Yes, it was a late one! The winning team finished in around 17 hours.
 
 




Monday 21 May 2012

Teams4U Yorkshire Dales 3 Peaks Challenge



 
The Teams4U charity organisation held their annual Yorkshire Dales 3 Peaks Challenge last Saturday 19th May in a fundraiser for children across developing countries, in particular Africa, Eastern Europe and South East Asia.  Year 1 SRB students were on-hand representing the University of Bolton and Sports and Spinal Injuries Clinic to help the hikers get the stiffness and tension out of their aching legs and backs, so thanks & well done to Rachael, Leanna, Meg, Siobhan and Hattie; and a massive well done to all of the hikers who took part - the looks on their faces said it all after 8-12 hours of walking!

Monday 14 May 2012

Sport Rehab students support Charity Cycle Event

The Sanctuary of Healing in Lango, nr Blackburn hosted an excellent charity cycle event yesterday - Sunday 13th May.  7 Students from year 1 Sport Rehabilitation received their first experience of 'real' competitors and were hands and elbows deep in recovery massage for the cyclists, supervised by Fin and Adam from the SRB lecturing team & Sports and Spinal Injury Clinic.  Looking forward to the same again next year!

Thursday 26 April 2012

Ivor climbs Kilimanjaro!

Sport Rehabilitation student Ivor Irwin completed a monumentous climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in February this year.  Congratulations Ivor!

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Bolton 10km race



Congratulations to Sport Rehab staff Andy Schofield, Adam Naylor, Catherine Bardsley, and Sport Rehab students Ivor Irwin, Dave Rannard who took part and completed the Bolton 10km race in Leverhulme Park on Sunday.  Sports and Spinal Injury Clinic manager Fionnuala Geoghegan supervised a fantastic group of our students who provided pre-race and post-race massage to any runner in need, in the process, raising money for Cancer Research.  Well done guys!!

Saturday 21 April 2012

The SSIC at the Preston Health Mela

Today, Adam from the Sport Rehab team represented the University of Bolton's Sports and Spinal Injury Clinic at the Preston Health Mela at the Guild Hall, a great event to mix with members of the health sector and a huge interest from the Central and South Lancashire communities.  Congrats to the Gujarat Hindu Society for yet another fantastic event.


Monday 26 March 2012

Bolton Sport Rehabilitation Students at the Wilmslow Half Marathon



Yesterday, Sunday 25th March was the Wilmslow Half Marathon, in aid of the David Lewis Charity.  Our students from the University of Bolton and a few from the University of Salford assisted one of our placement providers- Sport Med Physiotherapy Clinic, Stockport, in preparing the runners before the race with warm-up massage, and then getting the tightness and soreness out of their muscles afterwards too!  Congratulations to the race winner, completing in an excellent 65 minutes!





Tuesday 20 March 2012

Year 2s off to Wigan Warriors RFLC

Our year 2 students are heading down to Wigan Warriors training ground later this afternoon to provide an in-depth sports massage and stretching recovery session along with the Warriors medical team.  Getting elbows and hands dug in to the first team squad's quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, calves and back is just one of the modalities that our students learn as part of their development in helping athletes recover, and keeping them fit and on the field.  More to come from these regular student volunteering experience opportunities.

Wednesday 7 March 2012

Our new Sports Rehabilitation facilities in the University of Bolton's new Bolton One

Check out our 'new' Sports and Spinal Injury Clinic (moved from the 'old' site in the university!), rehabilitation suite, strength & conditioning facility and teaching clinics

 Sports & Spinal Injury Clinic
......open to the public, university staff, students, elite and amateur sports participants from team or inidividual sport backgrounds.  Our experienced clinician - lecturer staff team will lead you through full recovery with the support from our Sports Rehabilitation students.





Rehab suite - for all patients and student teaching

S & C suite - for teaching, training and athlete development
Teaching clincs 1 & 2 - the students' classroom!

Tuesday 6 March 2012

Moving In!

In the last week we have moved into our new facility in Bolton One, which houses our Sports & Spinal Injury Clinic, teaching clinics, training and rehabilitation exercise rooms.  Exciting times!!

Here's Adam with some year 1 students and our 'skeleton staff' on the moving in day.