12 month
10/12/2025
6–8 hours per week
Professional Certification (executive education)
Online, asynchronous
Spanish/English
Intermediate
This Professional Certification is designed to strengthen professional profiles specifically focused on preventing injuries within a sports organization—or minimizing their impact—such as physiotherapists, rehabilitation specialists, and strength and conditioning coaches.
The program begins by addressing the core knowledge areas that form the foundation of any injury prevention plan tailored to the demands of a specific sporting environment. This includes content modules on injury incidence and management, neuromuscular risk factors, and injury biomechanics.
The second module focuses on the implementation of injury prevention measures, covering post-exercise recovery strategies, an understanding of emotional and socio-affective factors that influence player health, and the application of osteopathy not only as a treatment tool but also as a preventive intervention.
The program then advances to training on innovation and technology in recovery and training, emphasizing their direct application to prevention. This includes the use of technologies for injury treatment, strength training as a key preventive quality, and immersive reality tools for performance assessment and monitoring.
The Certification concludes with a focus on developing athletes, addressing training and intervention strategies related to the prevention of muscular, tendinous, and joint injuries, ensuring professionals are fully equipped to protect and enhance player health throughout all stages of development.
This Professional Certification consists of 12 one-month courses, grouped into 4 three-month blocks. It grants— to those who meet the defined requirements— its corresponding online diploma, as well as the diplomas for the four “Expert Programs” that form part of it. The Professional Certification may be completed continuously or by blocks, according to the participant’s preference, with up to 24 consecutive months available to complete it from the time of enrollment.
1. Injury Incidence and Injury Management in Football
2. Injury Risk Factors in Prevention and Rehabilitation
3. Injury Biomechanics in Football
4. Post-Competition Recovery Measures
5. Psychosocial Performance and Sport
6. Osteopathy and Manual Medicine in Football
7. Fundamentals and Technology of Player Assessment
8. Methodology and Technology of Strength Training in Football
9. Sports Training and Immersive Reality
10. Development of Youth Football: From Potential to Sporting Excellence
11. Neuromuscular Control for Injury Prevention and Sports Performance
12. Complex Speed Training
Access to the Innovity® Method: Science, Methodology, and Application
Expert Mentorship: testimonials, best practices, and insights from experts—directly from the field
Access to materials anytime, anywhere, and from any device
24/7 Support, synchronous or asynchronous, according to your preference, provided by the Innovity professional team
Case Method: effective use of learned tools and concepts
Self-Assessments to measure learning progress
Comprehensive final exam
Certificate of completion or attendance, as applicable
€ 60 per month - 12 months
Diploma in Physiotherapy (Gimbernat University School, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 1988–92), Osteopath C.O. (School of Osteopathy of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, 2006–10), and Psychoneuroimmunologist (EFHRE International University, Regenera 2021). Postgraduate Degree in Sports Physiotherapy (Gimbernat University School, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 1994–95). Linked to sport across various disciplines, including futsal and field hockey, he has developed most of his professional career in football. He began with the first team of Terrassa FC (1996–2000), the Catalan Football Federation national teams (2000–07), and the first team of Real Club Deportivo Espanyol (2004–08). He has been a physiotherapist and osteopath at FC Barcelona since 2008.
Graduate in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences (INEFC, Lleida) and holder of a Master’s in High Performance Sport (INEFC, Barcelona) and a Master’s in Sports Rehabilitation (EUSES, Girona). He has developed a career of more than fifteen years linked to high performance, with a particular focus on professional football. He works as a technical consultant, designing performance optimization, injury prevention, and rehabilitation programs for elite footballers in European leagues, including Dani Olmo, Thiago Alcântara, Eric García, and Álex Baena, among others. He has supported internationally renowned players, as well as athletes from other elite contexts, including WTA tennis players such as Paula Badosa and Carla Suárez, and MotoGP riders such as Remy Gardner.
PhD awarded by the Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona. Master’s Degree in High-Performance Team Sports Training (INEFC, University of Barcelona, 2008) and Master’s Degree in Clinical Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System (Rovira i Virgili University, Reus, Spain). He has received numerous awards and recognitions and has a scientific output of more than 150 articles published in prestigious scientific journals. He completed two postgraduate fellowships at Duke University and the Mayo Clinic.
PhD in Physiotherapy from the Universitat de Vic–Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC) and PhD in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from the University of Barcelona. He also holds Bachelor’s degrees in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences and in Physiotherapy from UVic-UCC. He is the author of several scientific articles focused on high-performance sport, post-exercise recovery, epidemiology, and injury prevention.
PhD in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2010). Master’s Degree in Research from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2007) and Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Barcelona (2006). He completed a postdoctoral stay at the University of Thessaly (2011). He has worked as a sport psychologist at the Bruguera Tennis Academy (2002–2009); has held program management and professional practice roles in clubs in Girona; has served as head of the psychology project for the youth academy and as sport psychologist for the first team at Club Bàsquet Girona in the ACB (2022–2025); performance psychology consultant at the Ipswich Town FC Academy (2019–2020); and consultant with KTM Red Bull MotoGP (2023).
PhD in Biomedical Research Methodology and Public Health from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Bachelor in Physiotherapy from Universitat Ramon Llull and in Osteopathy from the Escola d’Osteopatia de Barcelona – European School of Osteopathy. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Iberoamerican Cochrane Center (CCib), integrated within the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona and at the Sant Pau Research Institute.
PhD in Sport Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Girona. Official Master’s Degree in Integrative Physiology (University of Barcelona). In the academic field, he has worked at various universities. As a researcher, his work focuses on the study of injury risk factors in athletes and on improving sports performance. He has coached athletes for more than 30 years, particularly football players, and served as strength and conditioning coach for the second football team of FC Barcelona.
Dr. Adam Kiefer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where he is also a core member of the Matthew Gfeller Center for NeuroHealth and an affiliate of the Sports Medicine Institute. Dr. Kiefer is Co-Director of the STAR Heel Performance Laboratory (Simulation, Training, Analytics & Rehabilitation), a translational research group focused on leveraging immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, and behavioral science to address critical challenges in the prevention and rehabilitation of sports injuries.
PhD in Sports Sciences from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (Portugal). Bachelor in Physical Education and Sport from the same university, and Master in Sports Sciences from the Faculty of Sport of the University of Porto. He previously served as Director of the Master’s Program in Sports Performance Analysis, developed in consortium with Otto von Guericke University (Magdeburg, Germany) and the Lithuanian Sports University (Kaunas, Lithuania).
PhD in Sports Performance from the University of Barcelona. Bachelor in Sport Sciences from the National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia (INEFC, University of Barcelona). He has worked as a strength and conditioning coach for high-level basketball clubs and players, including FC Barcelona, as well as for the field hockey team of the Real Club de Polo. In recent years, he has focused particularly on the training and development of young athletes, specifically on the understanding and development of complex speed in team sports.
PhD in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from Universitat Ramon Llull (URL). Bachelor in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from INEFC (University of Barcelona), Diploma in Physiotherapy from URL, and Master in High Performance Sport from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She has worked for more than 25 years as a physiotherapist and strength and conditioning coach with elite athletes. Since 2008, she has been a strength and conditioning coach and coordinator of the health and performance area of the elite basketball program SIGLO XXI (Spanish and Catalan Basketball Federations).