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General Physical Medicine
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:27.01.2021 09:46:10
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | REK_170 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Anatomy | Target Audience: | Rehabilitation | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Evita Krasmane | ||||||||
| 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) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Physics, chemistry, human anatomy, normal and pathological physiology, internal diseases, neurological diseases, surgical diseases, skin diseases. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop students' skills to set out the methods of physical concepts, to develop students' skills to explain physical methods expected of subjective sensations during the procedure, to develop the ability to speak about physical therapy precautions, to develop the skills to calculate to amount of ultraviolet rays BIODEV and the physical medicine methods divided into the groups, to outline the physical medicine factor indications, to develop ability to formulate physical medicine contra-indications, to systematise the main medical effects of physical factors. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Low - voltage electric current methods. High - voltage electric current methods | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||||
| 2 | High - voltage electric current methods | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Classes | 0.00 | clinical base | |||||||
| 3 | Electric and magnetic field methods | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||||
| 4 | Light physical medicine methods | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||||
| 5 | Mechanical vibration treatment methods | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Mechanical vibration treatment methods | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Artificial atmosphere physical therapy methods, barotherapy | Lectures | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual work – preparing for tests, independent work with literature sources in order to prepare a course work. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | • Active and efficient participation in practical classes. • Practical performance of physical therapy procedures. • Successfully written tests of general physical therapy issues. • Course work and quality of the presentation. • Oral test at the end of the study course. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of study course students will be able to: • define the concepts of physical methods; • name the main therapeutic effects of physical therapy; • count the indications and contra-indications of physical therapy methods. | ||||||||
| Skills: | On successful completion of study course students will be able to: • choose appropriate apparatus and equipment of physical therapy methods; • interpret ultraviolet BIODEV size; • assess the safety of physical therapy apparatus and equipment in the physical medicine and rehabilitation department. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On successful completion of study course students will be able to: • assess patients' subjective feelings during a physical therapy session; • systematize and classify groups of physical therapy methods based on the physical characteristics factors. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | I.Zeidlers Elektroterapija un magnētterapija. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 1999.gads, 128 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | I.Zeidlers Vispārīgā fizikālā medicīna un kūrortrehabilitācija. Rīga: RSU, 2004.gads, 156 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 3 | L.Terentjeva, L.Frīdenberga, Latvijas kūrortu dabiskie dziedniecības līdzekļi. Rīga: Radoša grupa Multicentrs, 2008.gads. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 4 | Kr.Gūtenbrunners, Ž. Ž. Glēzeners Rehabilitācija, fizikālā medicīna un dabas dziedniecība, Rīga: Nacionālais apgāds, 2008.gads, 217.lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | S.Kneips Ūdensdziedniecība: nostiprinām imunitāti un ārstējam slimības. Rīga:Vieda, 2011.gads, 311 lpp. | ||||||||
| 2 | A.Semjonova Ārstēšanās ar siltumu. Rīga: Vieda, 2011.gads, 127 lpp. | ||||||||
| 3 | L.Braddom Randall. Braddom's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Philadelphia, 2011, p. 1472 | ||||||||
| 4 | J. Crebbin-Bailey The spa book: the official guide to spa therapy. London, 2005, p.490 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. ISSN: 0894-9115, online ISSN: 1537-7385. | ||||||||
| 2 | Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation medicine. ISSN: 1877-0657, online ISSN: 1877-0665. | ||||||||
| 3 | European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation medicine. ISSN: 1973-9087, online ISSN: 1973-9095. | ||||||||
| 4 | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America. ISSN: 1047-9651. | ||||||||
| 5 | Physical therapy. ISSN: 0031-9023, online ISSN: 1538-6724 . | ||||||||
