How to become a professional sports physiotherapist??

Guys I wanna know How to become a professional sports physiotherapist???How much do they get paid??

Physiotherapy degree (3 or 4 years depending on country). Then (at the moment anyway) about 2 years as a junior band 5 doing rotations (if you're lucky). Then apply for band 6 posts. Then probably a year or two as a band 6 before top private clinics will look at you (usually about 5 years postgrad experience is stipulated for the top jobs). Pay wise, if you look at the agenda for change payscale on the NHS website, you are probably looking about the equivalent of Band 7 wages, so 35-50k ish per year. However, I know of physios charging themselves out at £100 per hour, so if you get to that sort of level I guess anything up to £100k per year?

Thankyou..I just finished my High School and now I'm gonna apply for BPT(bachelor of physiotherapy) which is a four and a half years course..btw I'm in India.After that I'm gonna take Masters in Sports physiotherapy.
What are bands???Like band5,band6 what do they indicate???

If you have any advice for me please feel free to post :) Cheers

Bands are just levels of seniority. Band 5 is what you would go in as as a new physio just out of uni, and then they go band 6, 7, 8a, 8b, 8c as you rise up the ranks. 8a is typically where the most senior physio in a department will be before you then leave clinical post and go to management. Not sure how it works in India.

To be honest in my opinion the rules of the game have changed due to the job situation.

In the past it may have been the accepted route that you'd get a rotational job, work up to senior level and specialise but now rotational jobs are gold dust so people are specialising straight out of university. When I say specialising I simply mean going straight to work in an area (private/sport/whatever) without always having done rotations.

Some will say that it makes you a better all round physio if you've done rotations due to the transferrable skills but if you absolutely know where you want to work then theres no reason you cant go right ahead and do it. Obviously nothings changed in terms of the best jobs going to the most experienced people but you have to start somewhere and these days it's unlikely you'll leave uni and go straight into a rotational post.

With NHS jobs being so competitive, new grads need to leave uni with the boxing gloves on as there will be some far more experienced people applying for band 5 jobs...

How much do sports physiotherapist get paid according to different ranks??

Bands and grade of therapist vary from country to country, as does their terminology. Perhaps the main issue here is that they almost always relate to working in the Public sector. As a private practitioner working in the area of sports medicine these grades will have no relevance. They are a way to keep the NHS budgets in check, nothing more really. I say this as a person who is a low grade in one hospital because that is the available job and pay grade may find themselves higher or lower in another hospital because or what may be available more than how much skill they have.

I would not focus on such questions now as by the time you graduate the answer will be very different. For now focus on getting into a good physio school and then doing well in your studies. You may even find that by the end of the undergraduate process your interests lie elsewhere :)

Thankyou..I will :) Just curious to know about sports physiotherapy..thats all, Cheers

How does sports physiotherapist start after uni...Do they get into a club team or directly to a national team??

For sport physiotherapist experience is important, payment also depend on the how expert you are and how many years of experience you have.

I agree, It depends on your experience, payment is also depends on how expert you are and how many sport physiotherapists are available on that particular area.




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