| Type: | Postgraduate Subject |
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| Code: | PHTY72-412 |
| EFTSL: | 0.188 |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine |
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| Credit: | 15 |
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Description
The concepts of health and disease will be reviewed, and definitions and issues related to impairments, disability, and chronic disease will be discussed using client and family-centred models of care. Chronic conditions involving the musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory, and neurological systems will be discussed across the lifespan, and appropriate practical skills acquired. Additionally, this subject will allow students to appreciate the complex multi-system nature of chronic disease and disability, including the behavioural and sociological sequelae for clients in community environments. Methods to minimise disuse and promote health, function, and self-efficacy will be presented with an emphasis on infancy through to maturity. An evidence based, biopsychosocial approach will form the basis of this subject. This subject requires students to utilise knowledge from their undergraduate degree to clinically reason appropriate treatment plans related to physiotherapy clients across the lifespan.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Analyse conditions presenting across the lifespan, utilising the International Classification of Function, Disability, and Health Framework (ICF).
- Explain the role of health promotion in the prevention of chronic disease or secondary impairments in persons across the lifespan.
- Select appropriate assessment tools, perform an assessment and create a treatment plan for persons with impairments, disability and/or chronic disease across the lifespan using the International Classification of Function, Disability and Health Framework (ICF).
- Explain the physiological principles and mechanisms underpinning a variety of rehabilitation strategies to generate and apply an evidence-based clinical decision for persons with impairments, disability and/or chronic disease across the lifespan (including infants, children, adolescents and young adults).
- Create and re-evaluate evidence based treatment plans using appropriate goal setting strategies and outcome measures for managing impairments, activity limitations and or participation restrictions of infants, children, adolescents and young adults with a variety of chronic conditions impacting the musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory and/or neurological systems.
- Analyse and critically evaluate current literature regarding rehabilitation strategies for persons with impairments, disability and/or chronic disease using effective problem solving and research strategies.
- Explain the roles and scope, including ethical and legal requirements for physiotherapists and the health care team when managing infants, children, adolescents, and young and older adults with impairments, disability, and/or chronic disease.
- Apply the principles of client-centred and family-centred practice when working with persons with impairments, disability and/or chronic disease and utilise these principles in promotion of self-management.
- Select and demonstrate safe and effective treatment options, including prescription of exercise, for persons across the lifespan with an impairment, disability, chronic disease and/or women in the pregnancy years.
- Communicate effectively utilising verbal, non-verbal and/or written modes, adjusting own communication style based on professional requirements and client needs.
Enrolment requirements
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Co-requisites:There are no co-requisites |
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Assumed knowledge is the minimum level of knowledge of a subject area that students are assumed to have acquired through previous study. It is the responsibility of students to ensure they meet the assumed knowledge expectations of the subject. Students who do not possess this prior knowledge are strongly recommended against enrolling and do so at their own risk. No concessions will be made for students’ lack of prior knowledge.
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This subject is not available to
This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure. |
Subject outlines
- January 2025 [Intensive - Community Physiotherapy Across the Lifespan]
- January 2024 [Intensive - Community Physiotherapy Across the Lifespan]
- September 2022 [Intensive - Community Physiotherapy Across the Lifespan]
- September 2021 [Intensive - Community Physiotherapy Across the Lifespan]
- January 2021 [Intensive - Community Physiotherapy Across the Lifespan]
- September 2020 [Intensive - Community Physiotherapy Across the Lifespan]
Subject dates
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January 2024
Non-Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 12/11/2023 Semester start: 29/01/2024 Subject start: 29/01/2024 Last enrolment: 02/02/2024 Teaching census: 08/02/2024 Withdraw - Financial: 09/02/2024 Withdraw - Academic: 15/02/2024 -
January 2025
Non-Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 10/11/2024 Semester start: 27/01/2025 Subject start: 27/01/2025 Last enrolment: 31/01/2025 Teaching census: 06/02/2025 Withdraw - Financial: 07/02/2025 Withdraw - Academic: 13/02/2025
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| Enrolment opens: | 12/11/2023 |
| Semester start: | 29/01/2024 |
| Subject start: | 29/01/2024 |
| Last enrolment: | 02/02/2024 |
| Teaching census: | 08/02/2024 |
| Withdraw - Financial: | 09/02/2024 |
| Withdraw - Academic: | 15/02/2024 |
| Non-Standard Offering | |
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| Enrolment opens: | 10/11/2024 |
| Semester start: | 27/01/2025 |
| Subject start: | 27/01/2025 |
| Last enrolment: | 31/01/2025 |
| Teaching census: | 06/02/2025 |
| Withdraw - Financial: | 07/02/2025 |
| Withdraw - Academic: | 13/02/2025 |