Course overview
In this course, you will build on professional practice knowledge developed in first year, extend your clinical reasoning skills and develop physiotherapy assessment and management skills. You will explore the professional practice issues of informed consent, maintaining privacy and confidentiality, risk assessment, goal setting and effective communication and cultural safety in relation to physiotherapy practice. You will apply clinical reasoning frameworks to lower limb cases. You will learn physiotherapy assessment and management skills for lower limb neuro-musculoskeletal conditions, which will be further developed in third year.
Course learning outcomes
- Apply professional practices in neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy in clinical contexts.
- Apply clinical reasoning to clinical scenarios in a range of neuromusculoskeletal settings and contexts, including working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- Select and complete appropriate safe, effective, and evidence-based patient-centred assessments of the lower-limb neuromusculoskeletal systems.
- Develop and explain effective evidence-based intervention/management plans for lower-limb neuromusculoskeletal dysfunctions.
- Prepare and discuss management plans with clients using appropriate patient-centred communication techniques.
- Apply informed consent maintain privacy and confidentiality, and goal setting.