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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    Thanks for that Oscar, that seems like a good plan.
    Can i ask if ur a physiotherapist yourself and how you got to where u were and if u had any regrets on the choices you made?


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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    Has anyone else got anything they could help me out with ?
    even if its minor things, after all i want to learn from people who have done what i am wanting to do.

    Much Obliged


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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    Quote Originally Posted by it02s28 View Post
    Thanks for that Oscar, that seems like a good plan.
    Can i ask if ur a physiotherapist yourself and how you got to where u were and if u had any regrets on the choices you made?
    LOL! I'm not there yet, I graduate this year! It's taken me ages to get here though, my A-levels were not good enough to get into physio first time around so I did a sport science degree, worked for 3 years in other areas, then applied for physio again when I was 25! I think if I could have done it differently I would have re-sat my A-levels and tried again to get into physio a few years earlier- I would have had only 1 student loan instead of the 2 I now have!!
    But in honesty I don't really regret it, I love the subject, just hope I can get a job when I finish!


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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    okay, well i have looked over the course you have done (sports science) and think it looks quite good kinda as a back up plan if my grades dont quite make the mark. on the other hand, there is a cadet scheme availiable in my area.

    What are your ideas and thoguht on a cadet scheme (working basically as an assistant phsyiotherapist and then going into university) ?


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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    That's a good idea, the physio assistant job would be a good plan but you'll still need A-levels to get into uni to do physio....lots of people also work as health care assistants before applying for physio, so that's also an option.
    I think most uni's will take any health related degree, sport science was just one of the ones they accept.

    Quote Originally Posted by it02s28 View Post
    okay, well i have looked over the course you have done (sports science) and think it looks quite good kinda as a back up plan if my grades dont quite make the mark. on the other hand, there is a cadet scheme availiable in my area.

    What are your ideas and thoguht on a cadet scheme (working basically as an assistant phsyiotherapist and then going into university) ?



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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    fair doos oscar.

    im going to school on monday and tuesday, to get a reference from them and then going to speak to my old english teacher to get advice on how to work a letter that i would send off to my local hospital applying for work experience.
    my next step after that is to start to look over revision notes on websites about biology so im not thrown in at the deepend when i go to 6th form in september.

    anymore i could be doing ?


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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    that sounds fine! But don't work too hard- you'll be busy enough in september!


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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    LOL!

    Yea il get the academic stuff sorted out then il play hard dont you worry :]


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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    If your interest is more in sports - I am a graduate Sports Rehabilitator. I work in private clinics and have worked for a premiership teams academy and also with a Conference level club.

    I would ask about the football club, as you may be able to help out on matchdays while you train.


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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    ok. thanks for that, my first idea is to get into with my local hospital though, if im not suitable or the place wont allow anyone then il take you up on your idea :]
    did you have to go back to university to study as a post-grad in a "sports rehabilitator course"?

    Thanks Karen


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    Re: 16 years old and need advice how to start

    The Sports Rehab course is a BSC(hons) degree. If your interested look in the BASRaT website and that will give you a list of where the courses are.



 
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