Sports, Occupational Health and Rehabilitation
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 60 Hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2025 teaching periods
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Admission into MA-PHYS - Master of PhysiotherapyAims and objectives
This unit examines and consolidates the knowledge, practical clinical skills and contemporary evidence to effectively assess, treat and manage individuals from diverse backgrounds who have occupational and sport-related injuries. The assessment and management of common clinical presentations within the vertebral region will also be a focus of this unit. Learning activities will provide students with the opportunity to develop clinical reasoning that underlies differential diagnosis utilising validated outcome measures. Students will link their assessment to treatment strategies that include exercise, technology and manual therapy.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
1. Evaluate and analyse how the neuromuscular system adapts to injury and the role of physiotherapy in maximising healing and recovery
2. Examine sports and occupational health presentations utilising appropriate differential diagnosis tests
3. Critically evaluate and justify the application of research evidence that supports a systematic approach to differential diagnosis and management of common vertebral region conditions
4. Evaluate, safely and effectively apply physiotherapy intervention for sports and occupational health injuries and vertebral region conditions utilising appropriate technologies
5. Evaluate and develop evidence-based clinical reasoning with respect to the management of sports and occupational health injuries as well as presentations within the vertebral region
6. Apply evidence-informed inter-disciplinary physiotherapy management plans for patients/clients
7. Sensitively communicate clinical information to patients/clients, carers and other stakeholders taking socio-economic and cultural factors into consideration
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
On-Campus Lecture | 4 | 6 | 24 |
On-Campus Practical | 6 | 6 | 36 |
Specified Learning Activities Various | 5 | 6 | 30 |
Unspecified Activities Independent learning | 10 | 6 | 60 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual/Group Role | Weighting | Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) |
Practical Examination | Individual | 30% | 2, 4, 7 |
| Practical and Oral Examination | Individual | 40% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
| Quizzes | Individual | 30% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
Content
- Sports and occupational health injury aetiology and pathophysiology
- Kinematic evaluation of sports and occupational activities
- Clinical presentations and physical manifestations of common conditions of the vertebral region, sports and occupational health injuries
- Systematic approach to patient centred care: assessment, interpretation of information, treatment planning, goal setting and evaluation of outcome
- Evaluation of contemporary research evidence to inform the differential diagnosis and management of vertebral region conditions, sports and occupational health injuries
- Technologies that support clinical assessment and management planning for vertebral conditions, sports and occupational health injuries
- Validated outcome measures and clinical tests that inform physical examination and differential diagnosis for vertebral conditions, sports and occupational health injuries
- Manual therapy techniques
- Inter-disciplinary short- and long-term goal setting
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.