Manual Therapeutic Physiotherapy

Manual therapy, musculoskeletal rehabilitation and physiotherapy: all these methods are closely connected. During this exchange course offered by HAN University of Applied Sciences, you will learn about manual therapeutic physiotherapy within the domain of musculoskeletal rehabilitation. The focus will be on movement dysfunctions in the spine and adjacent joints.

Acting tools

Patients with movement dysfunctions of the spine and adjacent joints can have a wide variety of problems. This means that the physiotherapist collaborating with the patients needs a variety of acting tools, such as:

  • Skilful acting
  • Systematic and thoughtful acting
  • Critical underpinning of all actions

These tools are the three main pillars of this exchange course.

Topics

The following topics will be dealt with during the course:

  • Screening of movement dysfunctions within the spine
  • Diagnosing of movement dysfunctions within the spine
  • Spine mobilisations
  • Spine stability training
  • Anatomy and biomechanics (cervical, thoracic, lumbar and SI)
  • Use application of HOAC II
  • Appraisal of scientific literature

Start

This exchange course runs from 2 April to 29 June 2012. Study load is 15 ECTS-credits.