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THIS TOPIC WILL BE FIRST OFFERED IN 2025

Overview

This topic will review manual handling tasks, walking aid assessment, and physiotherapy for orthopaedic conditions. It focuses on evidence-based interventions, professionalism, effective communication, and inter-professional collaboration in the care of orthopaedic patients.

Aims

This topic aims to equip students with the necessary knowledge and safe skills in manual handling tasks, including work health and safety obligations and managing their own physical health as physiotherapists. Students will learn to assess and prescribe walking aids, apply physiotherapy skills to enhance physical function in individuals with common orthopaedic conditions, and understand the assessment and management of acute orthopaedic conditions. Additionally, critical thinking skills will be developed to select evidence-based interventions that promote movement and physical function following orthopaedic procedures, taking into account pain science, musculoskeletal anatomy, and tissue injury/healing physiology. Students will also gain an understanding of the role of physiotherapy within collaborative healthcare teams, demonstrate professionalism, ethical practice, and effective communication strategies in clinically-based scenarios. Lastly, students will learn to collect information from clients and relevant sources to plan management that reflects client responses and their own competence, while seeking inter-professional support when necessary.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Demonstrate knowledge and safe skills related to manual handling tasks for physiotherapists, including work health and safety obligations and management of their own physical health
2.
Assess and prescribe walking aids to assist gait and re-educate gait patterns
3.
Demonstrate the safe and effective application of physiotherapy skills to aid the physical function of people with common orthopaedic conditions
4.
Demonstrate knowledge of the physiotherapy assessment and management of people with acute orthopaedic conditions
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Use critical thinking to select and plan evidence-based physiotherapy interventions in consultation with the client that aids movement and physical function following orthopaedic procedures, by building on knowledge of pain science, musculoskeletal anatomy and tissue injury/healing physiology
6.
Demonstrate an understanding of the role and evidence base for physiotherapy within collaborative health care teams, as applied to the care of people with orthopaedic conditions across the health care system
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Demonstrate understanding of professionalism, and ethical physiotherapy practice, including the responsive adaptation of principles in the clinical setting with cultural sensitivity
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Demonstrate the principles of professional communication as applied to clinically based scenarios that require written, verbal and non-verbal strategies
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Begin to collect information from clients and other relevant sources to plan management that, reflects both client responses and own competence, seeking inter-professional support in a timely manner

Requisites information

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