The Function and Examination of the Musculoskeletal System (4cr)

Objective

Students

- can explain what the physiotherapy process involves
- use national physiotherapy codes in documentation
- can explain what a physiotherapeutic examination involves as part of clinical reasoning
- use scientific and evidence-based knowledge in various physiotherapy situations
- know where to find physiotherapy guidelines

- will be able to name and palpate parts of bones in a skeleton and in a human body
- will be able to name and palpate joints and describe their structure and function
- will be able to name muscles and their attachment sites and analyse their function in human mobility
-will know how to locate muscles and their attachment sites in anatomical models and in a human body
-will know how to measure muscle strength and joint mobility in a reliable and replicable way, using various methods and instruments; will know how to interpret and explain the results
-will know how to measure and analyse positions, movement and mobility using a variety of examination methods

Content

- The physiotherapy process
- Data collection methods, selection of methods, their reliability and replicability in physiotherapeutic assessment
- Evidence-based clinical decision-making throughout the physiotherapy process
- Evidence-based practice
- Reliable research knowledge
- Important physiotherapy databases and guidelines
- Effectiveness of physiotherapy
- Validity and reliability
- Anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal system
- Muscle testing
- Testing joint mobility
- Examining posture

Qualifications

Communication Skills (YPO3A3)
ICT Skills (YPO4A3)

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

- Students recognise the theoretical model of the physiotherapy process and are partly able to explain its components.
- Students are able to summarize research articles to some extent and they partly understand the role of scientific thinking in physiotherapy.
- Students are able to work more or less define evidence-based physiotherapy.
- The student will know some good physiotherapy practice, practice, combining work practices based on evidence and the development of skills of physiotherapists.
- The student summarizes strictly academic papers and understand in part the importance of scientific thinking in physiotherapy.
- The student is able to use some of the current recommendations for the management and physical therapy recommendations for determining the client's need for therapy.
- Following examination, the student is able to implement evidence-based guidance, completed the planned therapy evaluate the therapy's success together with the supervisor
- They are able to name and palpate most human musculo-skeletal structures in familiar situations. -They apply anatomical theoretical knowledge to some extent to assess musculo-skeletal function in various movements.
- With help of instructions, students know how to examine positions, movement and mobility using physiotherapeutic assessment methods and partly how to interpret and explain the results to support clinical reasoning.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

- Students know the theoretical model of the physiotherapy process, including its components.
- Students are able to define evidence-based physiotherapy.
- The student will know good physiotherapy practice, practice, combining work practices based on evidence and the development of skills of physiotherapists.
- The student is able to summarize academic papers and understand the importance of scientific thinking in physiotherapy.
- The student is able to use some of the current recommendations for the management and physical therapy recommendations for determining the client's need for therapy.
- The student is able to implement evidence-based guidance, completed the planned therapy evaluate the therapy's success
- They are able to name and palpate human musculo-skeletal structures in familiar situations.
- They apply relatively well anatomical theoretical knowledge to assess musculo-skeletal function in various movements.
- Students know how to examine positions, movement and mobility using physiotherapeutic assessment methods and how to interpret and for the most part explain the results to support clinical reasoning.
- Following instructions, students know how to summarize research articles and they partly understand the role of scientitic thinking in physiotherapy.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

- Students know the theoretical model of the physiotherapy process, including its components.
- Students are able to define evidence-based physiotherapy.
- The student will know good physiotherapy practice, practice, combining work practices based on evidence and the development of skills of physiotherapists.
- The student summarizes fluently academic papers and understand in part the importance of scientific thinking in physiotherapy.
- The student is able to use of the current recommendations for the management and physical therapy recommendations for determining the client's need for therapy.
- The student is able to implement evidence-based guidance, completed the planned therapy evaluate the therapy's success

- They are able to confidently name and palpate human musculo-skeletal structures in various situations.
- They competently apply anatomical theoretical knowledge to assess musculo-skeletal function in various movements.
- Students know how to flawlessly examine positions, movement and mobility using physiotherapeutic assessment methods and how to interpret and explain the results to support clinical reasoning.
- Following instructions, students know how to summarize research articles and they understand the role of scientific thinking in physiotherapy.