Professional Certification in Soccer Rehabilitation Physiotherapy
From the therapeutic process to the complete reconditioning of the player.
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Duration:
12 months
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Start Date:
10/12/2025
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Dedication:
6–8 hours per week
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Program Type:
Professional Certification (executive education)
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Modality:
Online, asynchronous
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Language of Instruction:
Spanish/English
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Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
This role is commonly found in semi-professional and amateur sports, where its importance has steadily increased in recent years. This Professional Certification is designed to provide professionals with a broad and detailed understanding of the key problem areas involved in managing an injured soccer player.
The first module covers content related to injury prevention, including knowledge of neuromuscular risk factors, injury biomechanics, and the use of osteopathy as a discipline that contributes to injury prevention—requiring prior understanding of these factors to properly contextualize its application.
Next, the program immerses professionals in the foundations—thoroughly and with focused depth—of therapeutic and rehabilitation processes, enabling them to understand the entire continuum that a soccer player undergoes following an injury.
The following section addresses player assessment, ranging from basic analytical evaluations to more complex assessments involving sport-specific skills. This knowledge is complemented by an update on the use of virtual reality in sports, exploring its potential as a tool for player evaluation.
The academic pathway concludes with a specialized module focused on the young player, aimed at understanding the fundamentals of youth training and learning how to adapt them to the post-injury rehabilitation process.
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 Risk Factors in Prevention and Rehabilitation
2. Injury Biomechanics in Football
3. Osteopathy and Manual Medicine in Football
4. Injury Incidence and Injury Management in Football
5. Fundamentals of the Return-to-Competition Process
6. Ecological Construct and Football
7. Fundamentals and Technology of Player Assessment
8. Methodology of Performance Assessment and Injury Risk Factors
9. Sports Training and Immersive Reality
10. Development of Youth Football: From Potential to Sporting Excellence
11. Post-Competition Recovery Measures
12. Psychosocial Performance and Sport
What includes this program?
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
Pricing
€ 720
€ 60 per month - 12 months
Our Experts
Eduardo García Prat
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.
Eduard Alentorn Geli
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.
Gerard Alvarez
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.
Jaume Munill Aróztegui
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.
Dani Romero
PhD in Sports Sciences from the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Bachelor in Sport Sciences from the University of Barcelona and in Physiotherapy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the author of numerous scientific articles, with research lines focused on the effects of inertial resistance training systems, both in their application for performance enhancement and injury prevention.
James Dixon
PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany. Since 1999, he has held academic positions at Trinity University, the College of William & Mary, and the University of Connecticut, where he has served as Associate Professor (2005–2014), Full Professor (since 2014), and has taken on leadership roles as head of the Development and the Perception–Action–Cognition areas within the Department of Psychological Sciences. He has directed the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action since 2014.
Maurici Abraham López-Felip
PhD in Ecological Psychology from the University of Connecticut (2019), Master of Science in Exercise Science from Southern Illinois University (2014), and Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from the University of Barcelona (2009). He is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Kognia Sports Intelligence (since 2019), a Barcelona-based company pioneering tactical analysis in football through artificial intelligence. He served as Head of Research for the Team Sports Department at FC Barcelona (2016–2019).
Marc Madruga Parera
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.
Adam Kiefer
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.
Nuno Leite
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).
Albert Altarriba-Bartés.
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.
Alex Latinjak
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).