Handbook

This topic aims to equip you to assess and manage acute orthopaedic presentations in physiotherapy practice, in order to promote movement and physical function. This will include developing your knowledge and skills in safe manual handling (including work health and safety obligations), and the assessment and prescription of walking aids and other equipment. You will learn how to collect information from clients and relevant sources, and to plan and deliver evidence-based management that is personalised to each client’s capabilities and goals. You will draw on prior learning about pain science/mechanisms and contributing factors, musculoskeletal and neurological anatomy, and tissue injury/healing physiology. You will progress your understanding of the role of physiotherapy within collaborative teams, so you can seek inter-professional support when necessary. Throughout the topic, clinically based scenarios will be used to support you to develop in your critical thinking, professionalism, ethical practice, and communication skills and behaviours.