Postgraduate specialisation in sports physiotherapy -Academic or clinical expertise?

As we head towards the latter part of the 1st decade in the 21st century, Physical Therapy as a profession has continued to develop towards the promotion of specialisation as part of lifelong learning and to advance quality of patient care. Sport as a specialist field is no exception to this and the International Federation of Sports Physiotherapy (IFSP), as a sub-group of the World Congress of Physical Therapy (WCPT), has been at the forefront of promoting recognition of expertise in sport and exercise physiotherapy. Postgraduate education at M level has become an expected part of the steps towards specialisation and as a consequence, more and more M level programmes are becoming available globally