Objectives: • The assessment, prevention and rehabilitation of sports injuries • Deepening in the modern techniques of sports physical therapy • The application of modern sports physiotherapy techniques to athletes • Understanding, practicing and gaining experience of the experimental instruments and methods used in sports Physiotherapy • The development of students' research abilities in order to promote knowledge in the field of sports physical therapy
The program entitled "Sports Physiotherapy: Rehabilitation Techniques after injury or surgery" aims to meet the requirements set by the International Federation of Sports Physiotherapy (IFSPT) provided the students of the specialty Sports Coach and Occupational Therapy Assistant with the necessary supplies for proper and effective exercising their duties in the wider field of rehabilitation and in particular in competitive and mass sports, general physical activity and recreational sports. The aim of the project was to train participants to acquire scientifically based knowledge and high level skills to promote safe and effective physical activity and enable them to work as specialist Sports Physiotherapists. 32 DIEK students participated in the project, accompanied by 2 professors, who went to Cyprus.