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Health Promotion and Prevention in Physiotherapy
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:19.08.2022 10:18:06
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | REK_029 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation | Target Audience: | Rehabilitation | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Māra Kuļša | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Rehabilitation | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, rk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 20271291 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 24 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 18 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 26 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic Physiotherapy, Sports for Health, Sports Medicine, Physiotherapy in Orthopaedics, Neurology and other diseases. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To get to know health promotion and prevention possibilities in physiotherapy practice for people at different age, with different occupation and activity level, and different health risk factors. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Health promotion and prevention – place and role at physiotherapist's daily work. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Health promotion and prevention in physiotherapy and physical activities. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Health promotion and prevention possibilities in physiotherapy for people in different age. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Educational programmes in physiothepist's work. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Health promotion and prevention activity planning in physiotherapy. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Seminar: health promotion and prevention and physical activities, physical activity recommendations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Seminar: Physical activity recommendations and chronic health problems. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Seminar: health promotion and prevention for working physiotherapists. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Health promotion and prevention activity presentation and assessment. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Health promotion and prevention – place and role at physiotherapist's daily work. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Health promotion and prevention in physiotherapy and physical activities. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Health promotion and prevention possibilities in physiotherapy for people in different age. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Educational programmes in physiothepist's work. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Health promotion and prevention activity planning in physiotherapy. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Seminar: health promotion and prevention and physical activities, physical activity recommendations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Seminar: Physical activity recommendations and chronic health problems. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Seminar: health promotion and prevention for working physiotherapists. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Health promotion and prevention activity presentation and assessment. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Preparation for seminar classes, according to the topic; independent work topic selection, work planning and development; preparation of written independent work and its presentation. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | • active participation in all seminars, demonstrating ability to analyse seminar texts (20%); • presentation of independent group work (20%); • group work analysis in written form and oral presentation (20%); • submitted group work (project) in written form (40%); | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Understands health promotion and prevention possibilities in physiotherapy, basic principles and assessment of needs from PT point of view, recognises, can describe and knows how to reduce health risk factors in physiotherapy everyday practice with physiotherapy methods, understands and can explain patient's role in health promotion and prevention, can explain the role of physical activity and knows how to select the appropriate one. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Can recognise and assess positive and negative, internal and external factors influencing musculoskeletal and other body systems in particular situation; is able to plan and realise health promotion and prevention activities and to control realisation for groups or individuals at different age with different occupation and use physiotherapy methods for it. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Is able to analyse and explain health promotion and prevention role in physiotherapist's everyday work, is able to create health promotion and prevention activities in physiotherapy practice. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | WHO Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. WHO, 2020 | ||||||||
| 2 | Talbot L. Verrinder G. Promoting Health: the Primary Health Care Approach. Elsevier, 2018 | ||||||||
| 3 | ACSM's behavioral aspects of physical activity and exercise. Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014 | ||||||||
| 4 | Kisner C., Colby L.A. Therapeutic Exercise, Foundations and Techniques - 6th ed., F. A. Davis Company, 2018. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Eglīte M. Darba medicīna. Rīga, 2012 | ||||||||
| 2 | Ewles L. Key Topics in Public Health. Elsevier, 2005 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | RSU pieejamās datu bāzes. | ||||||||
| 2 | http://estudijas. rsu.lv | ||||||||
