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Physiotherapy as a career

Physiotherapy as a career. Department of Physiotherapy School of Medicine Trinity College. What is physiotherapy?. What does the course in physiotherapy in Trinity College Dublin entail?. Physiotherapy as a career and the course in Physiotherapy in Trinity. What is Physiotherapy?.

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Physiotherapy as a career

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  1. Physiotherapy as a career Department of Physiotherapy School of Medicine Trinity College

  2. What is physiotherapy? What does the course in physiotherapy in Trinity College Dublin entail? Physiotherapy as a career and the course in Physiotherapy in Trinity

  3. What is Physiotherapy? • “Physiotherapy is a health care profession concerned with human function and movement and maximising potential • “- it uses physical approaches to promote, maintain and restore physical, psychological and social well being, taking account of variations in health status” • It places full and functional movement at eh heart of what it means to be healthy

  4. Core skills of Physiotherapy • Therapeutic exercise • Manual Therapy • Electrophysical modalities

  5. What do Physiotherapists do? • Broad range of physical problems but particularly those associated with neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions

  6. Where Physiotherapists work

  7. Where Physiotherapists work

  8. The course in Physiotherapy • 4 year degree course that leads to a professional qualification • Year 1 and Year 2 – basic sciences and physiotherapeutic skills • Year 3 and Year 4 – clinical sciences, clinical placements and a research project

  9. Year 1 in Physiotherapy • Anatomy • Clinical Anatomy • Physiology • Physics • Chemistry

  10. Year 2 in Physiotherapy • Physiotherapeutic skills - introduction to the core areas of manual therapy, therapeutic exercise and electrotherapy • Introduction to the clinical sciences - musculoskeletal, respiratory, care of the elderly and Pathology

  11. Year 3 in Physiotherapy • Clinical sciences: respiratory care, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, neurology, women’s health, paediatrics, care of the elderly • Research methodology and statistics, psychology • Clinical placements of 4-5 weeks duration in physiotherapy departments in hospitals, in schools, child development centres, community care

  12. Year 4 in Physiotherapy • Research project • Study of an optional area eg “ Exercise in the prevention and treatment of disease”, chronic pain. • Professional issues • Ergonomics • Clinical placements of 4-5 weeks duration

  13. Further details on the course • www.tcd.ie/Physiotherapy • Visit the stands - staff and students will answer your questions

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