Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
AS20166 Rehabilitation |
| Credits: 10 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Semester: 1 at Swindon College |
| Assessment: CW 40%, OT 60% |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take AS10163 |
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Aims: This unit aims to:
* develop the student's knowledge and practical skills in the planning and administering of rehabilitation and treatment programmes. Learning Outcomes: At the end of this unit students will be able to: * describe the rules and regulations pertaining to the use of special protective equipment, braces, splints and taping etc as established by the appropriate governing body and demonstrate the selection and application of these; * describe the typical symptoms and common clinical signs associated with injury and illness including those associated with local tissue inflammation; the body's normal immediate and delayed pathophysiological responses to trauma and injury and the normal and abnormal physiological responses of injured tissue to heat, cold, stretching, exercise , mobilisation and immobilisation; * describe the benefits and uses of taping and strapping techniques, the preparation, application and accomplishment of appropriate immediate treatment; * describe the basic components of a comprehensive rehabilitation programme including the determination of appropriate goals and objectives, the selection of relevant exercises, and the planning, evaluating and recording of the rehabilitation progress and any pathological, psychological and physiological signs and symptoms that may influence the rehabilitation process; * demonstrate knowledge of various exercise strategies and their suitability and adaptability to the injured patient; gait re-education; * describe the general physiological effects of inactivity and immobilisation on the body and the resulting implications for rehabilitation; benefits and use of immobilisation devices and ambulation aids and the application of passive, active, active assisted, autoassisted and resisted exercises through the early and intermediate stages of rehab. Skills: * professional development skills; * communication skills; * improving own learning and performance; * working with others; * problem solving. Content: * inflammatory response to injury; * remodelling and repair stages of injury repair; * pain cycle; * application of RICE to injury; * immobilisation versus mobilisation; * stages and progressions of rehabilitation with specific focus on early and intermediate, late and predischarge stages; * proprioception, mobilisation, stretches and strengthening exercises for the upper and lower body - early and intermediate, late and predischarge stages; * back mobilisation and strengthening exercises in the early and intermediate, late and predischarge stages; * gait analysis and gait re-education for the early and intermediate stages; * crutch walking; * running re-education; * core stability and dynamic work. |