University of Liverpool Animal Physiotherapy PGDip/MSc

22/10/2025

Are you a Physiotherapist who wants to work with animals (who wouldn’t)? Veterinary Physiotherapy may be the career for you…come to this session and find out!

The University of Liverpool’s Postgraduate Diploma / MSc in Veterinary Physiotherapy is a 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 aimed at 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 who wish to translate their knowledge and skills developed on humans into practice on animals. The programme is recognised by the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Animal Therapy (ACPAT) as an upgrading route for ‘Category A’ membership.

The programme is available on a full time or part time basis either to PgDip or MSc level. The full time PgDip and MSc programmes require students to study on campus in the UK, while the part time PgDip and MSc programmes can be studied remotely.

Wednesday 19th November 2025
Register your place here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate-taught/postgraduate-events/register/

19/02/2025

We are pleased to share this article by Em Prof. Catherine McGowan BVSc, MANZCVSC, DEIM, Dip ECEIM, CertVBM, PhD, FHEA, FRCVS, published in the Veterinary Clinics of North America special issue on Muscle Disease in Horses.
It has a focus on intrinsic traumatic muscle injuries, broadly divided into exercise-induced muscle damage, including delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and muscle injury, including muscle and musculotendinous tears. It is an area under represented in the veterinary literature, but an extremely important area for all athletes and may be of particular interest to our Veterinary Physiotherapy colleagues. Link to article in comments below.

07/02/2025

22/05/2024

Veterinary physiotherapists, we're inviting you to take part in our survey investigating occupational injuries associated with working with horses.

The study is being undertaken by veterinary physiotherapist and postgraduate student Victoria as part of her University of Liverpool Master’s degree. All answers are valuable to our research and you do not have to have sustained an injury at work to participate in the study.

If you would like to take part (the questionnaire is completely anonymous), please click on the link or scan the QR code and read through the information before completing the online survey.

Survey link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/liverpool/survey-of-equine-veterinary-physiotherapists-injuries

Thank you in advance for participating - it really helps improve our understanding of the risks involved in working with horses as a veterinary physiotherapist.

26/03/2024

🐎 We are having a fantastic couple of days with Merseyside Police horses 😀

Here you can see some of our students performing musculoskeletal assessments on Owen and Brago.

25/03/2024

🌊 Week 2 of our Residential School off to a swimming start 🌊

Here you can see some of our students in the pool with Rocky & Seanie who are both receiving hydrotherapy as part of their treatment plan! ⭐

22/03/2024

This week our students have been taking part in the Treatment Skills workshop. Here, students assess and treat a whole host of dogs and horses, under the watchful eye of our incredible Vet Physio's!

Some examples of what we have been up to:

🐎 Thunder receiving some manual therapy
🐎 One of our students using a myofascial tool on Angel
🐕 Welly receiving some TENS therapy

21/03/2024

Residential School is in full swing here at Leahurst 🐕‍🦺🐎! Quick snap of some of our lovely volunteers taken on their lunchtime walk 📸

31/03/2023

The deadline for applications to join the 2023 cohort starting in September, is this coming Thursday 6 April.

Visit our website for more information

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/vets/cpd/vet-physio/

31/03/2023

We've had the sun join us this week on our residential school at Leahurst!

More fun with our students and lovely volunteers 🐴🐶🤩

28/03/2023

Did you know that for our Australian and New Zealand students, some of the practical residential school learning can be undertaken in Australia.

Here are some pictures from the most recent residential school this month, which took place between Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast and included Hydrotherapy Skills with Holistic Animal Physiotherapy and static stretching with Active Animal Physiotherapy.

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/vets/cpd/vet-physio/

27/03/2023

The swivel board is no problem for Lemon 💪