Career opportunities

The physiotherapist has a wide range of professional opportunities as a health professional: the treatment of medical and surgical specialities, disease prevention and health promotion activities, research, teaching and management in the field of physiotherapy. Graduates can also work independently, in the public or the private sector.

The occupation sectors are:

• Mutual insurance companies
• General and specialized hospitals
• Rehabilitation, primary care, medical-social, hydrothermal and sports centres
• Special education schools
• Geriatric residences
• Research and teaching institutions

Graduates in Sport Science can practice in the following fields:

• Teaching in physical education (Master’s Degree in Teacher Training at Secondary Education and Vocational Training is required)
• Sports management
• Sports training
• Sports rehabilitation
• Physical activity and health
• Leisure and recreation

Graduates in this Double Degree, as sports and health professionals, have a wide range of professional fields:

Health: in the branches of traumatology, paediatrics, neurology, uro-gynecology, rheumatology or ergonomics, in the prevention and recovery of health through physical activity and sport, the management of functional rehabilitation, etc. In this sense, the student can also work independently or in multidisciplinary teams in clinics, primary care centres or hospitals.

• Teaching in physical education (Master’s Degree in Teacher Training at Secondary Education and Vocational Training is required)
• Sport management
• Sports Training
• Sports rehabilitation
• Physical activity and health
• Leisure and recreation
• Sport Management

• Program rehabilitation and prevention of injuries plans in sports entities linked to performance, such as federations and clubs.
• Planning of rehabilitation and prevention of injuries plans in sports entities related to physical activity and health, for example, different types of health centres.
• Individual planning and execution of complete rehabilitation processes in athletes
  Proportion of a high experience in specific injuries to particular sports.
• Participation, within an interdisciplinary team of a technical nature (coach, physical trainer), in training of a team or an individual athlete.
• Participation, within an interdisciplinary health team (doctor, physiotherapist, osteopath, nutritionist), in processes of rehabilitation to the sport competition.
• Development of projects linked to cost and human reduction resulting from injuries of great incidence in specific sports environments.
• From the aforementioned career opportunities and the specified environments, we can also add the following possibilities of intervention:

• Primary and specialized health care centres
• Hospital centres
• Physiotherapy centres
• Companies of different characteristics for the rehabilitation of workers to the world of work.
• Sports schools
• Sports technification centres
• Sports performance centres
• Liberal exercise

• In clinics, hospitals, Primary Health Care Centres, specialized medical centres, physiotherapy centres and liberal exercise.
• Health teams interested in evaluation and treatment plans in neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy, based on the latest technical and scientific advances.
• Research projects related to the design of specific therapeutic protocols based on transverse clinical reasoning.
• Academic teaching with a high level of expertise in specific injuries of the neuromusculoskeletal and musculoskeletal system.
• Development, within an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, of therapeutic evaluation processes.

This training gives access to the working world as:

• Technician in sanitary transport
• Emergency healthcare technician
• Operator of remote care or emergency coordination centres.

• Technician in pathological anatomy and cytology
• Technician specialist or technician in pathology and cytology
• Cytotechnician
• Forensic assistant
• Prosector of clinical and medico-legal autopsies
• Tanatopractor
• Collaborator and assistant in molecular biology
• Research collaborator and assistant

This training gives access to the working world as:

• Technician in dietetics
• Responsible for food in catering services companies
• Technician in food hygiene
• Food consultant
• Health educator

This training gives access to the working world as:

• Technician in diagnosis imaging
• Technician or specialized technician in radiodiagnosis
• Technician or specialized technician in nuclear medicine
• Technical in medical radioelectrology equipment
• Technical in radiological protection
• Technical in research and experimentation radiology
• Hospital and pharmaceutical sales representative