12 months
10/12/2025
6–8 hours per week
Professional Certification (executive education)
Online, asynchronous
Spanish/English
Intermediate
This Professional Certification adopts a comprehensive approach, addressing multiple areas of knowledge with the clear and concrete aim of enhancing competencies related to the treatment and return-to-play rehabilitation of joint injuries.
The first part of the certification focuses on understanding the injury itself, including injury incidence zones, neuromuscular risk factors, and injury biomechanics. Collectively, this section provides both preventive applications and key tools and concepts to be applied during the injury and recovery process.
Next, the program introduces technological innovation, applied to both treatment and rehabilitation as well as player assessment. This is followed by a module on treatment and the early stages of post-injury rehabilitation, with a strong focus on ACL recovery, emphasizing neuromuscular control as a fundamental component to be developed in this type of injury.
Finally, the program advances toward methodological learning for the later phases of rehabilitation, which take place primarily on the field. This section covers physical-tactical conditioning and tactical performance, providing the knowledge necessary for the player to achieve the required adaptations to return to team training and, subsequently, to competitive play.
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. Fundamentals and Technology of Player Assessment
5. Methodology of Performance Assessment and Injury Risk Factors
6. Sports Training and Immersive Reality
7. Post-Surgery Treatment of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament
8. Neuromuscular Control for Injury Prevention and Sports Performance
9. Post-Surgery Rehabilitation Training of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament
10. Fundamentals of the Return-to-Competition Process
11. Small-Sided Games: Integrating Tactical and Physical Training
12. Technical and Tactical Fundamentals of Football
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 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 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.
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).
PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Isfahan (Iran) and Bachelor’s degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from Najafabad University, with a Master’s in Exercise Physiology. He has served as a performance director, sports scientist, and strength and conditioning coach in elite football clubs in Iran, Portugal, Greece, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
PhD in Sports Sciences from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (Portugal), and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physical Education from the same institution. He has fifteen years of coaching experience, having worked as an assistant coach in the Portuguese Primeira Liga and Segunda Liga, and as head coach in the Campeonato de Portugal (Vila Real).
PhD in Sports Sciences with a specialization in Sports Training from the Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education at the University of Coimbra (2015, Portugal). His scientific output includes more than 300 articles published in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of Web of Science (Clarivate).
PhD in Sports Sciences and Bachelor in Physical Education, both from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles, two books, and 20 book chapters.
Bachelor in Journalism from the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya, and graduate of the “Specialist in Scouting and Analysis” and “Specialist in Individual Fundamentals by Position” programs at MBP School. He currently serves as the head of analysis for Girona B.