Module PT2500-KP07
Evidence-based Practice in Physiotherapy 2 (EBPPhy2)
Duration
1 Semester
Turnus of offer
each summer semester
Credit points
7
Course of studies, specific fields and terms:
- Bachelor Physiotherapy 2018, compulsory, Scientific theory and practice
- Bachelor Physiotherapy 2017, compulsory, Scientific theory and practice
- Bachelor Physiotherapy 2022, compulsory, Scientific theory and practice
Classes and lectures:
- Evidence-based Practice in Neurology (exercise, 1.5 SWS)
- Evidence-based practice in orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Sports Medicine (exercise, 2 SWS)
- Evidence-based Practice in Neurology (seminar, 1 SWS)
- Evidence-based practice in orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Sports Medicine (seminar, 1 SWS)
Workload:
- 127 hours private studies
- 83 hours in-classroom work
Contents of teaching:
- Physiotherapy guidelines / guidelines for treatment plans and treatments
- Deepening and application of previously learned techniques and procedures
- Application and deepening of examination and treatment skills using patient cases
- Hypothesis-guided examination, movement analysis and treatment of neurological patients with diseases of the nervous system
- Hypothesis-guided examination and treatment of impairments in motor control and its effects on activity and participation
- Hypothesis-guided examination and treatment of the posture and movement system (e.g. hypo- and hypermobility, swelling, instability / lack of dynamic stability, pain)
- Application of relevant assessments
- Neuropsychological disorders
- Understanding of brain plasticity and reorganization and its impact on therapy
- Fundamentals of the theories of motor learning
- Physiotherapeutic inpatient care for patients with acute neurological diseases (e.g. after a stroke (early phase), cross-sectional patients, head trauma)
- Physiotherapeutic care for patients with chronic diseases (including after / with degenerative diseases of the musculoskeletal system, specific and unspecific back pain, chronic pain syndromes / back pain, scoliosis)
- Physiotherapeutic care for patients with chronic, neurological diseases (e.g. Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke (late phase), ALS, TBI, polyneuropathy, GBS, plexus paresis)
- Application of the theoretical models (model of human movement, salutogenesis, ICF, MDBB model)
- Documentation
- Apparative / assistive procedures
- Aid supply
- Ethical issues
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
- students are able to analyze patients with musculoskeletal and / or neurological problems with regard to their functional health problem, to make a well-founded decision to act, to carry it out and then to reflect on it. The methodological approach of the students is characterized by the use of the physiotherapeutic process, the inclusion of results of external evidence and the consideration of patient preferences. The acquired competences form the basis for evidence-based physiotherapeutic care for patients with musculoskeletal and / or neurological problems in daily practice.
Grading through:
- practical exam
Is requisite for:
Responsible for this module:
- Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lüdtke
Teacher:
- Institute of Health Sciences
- M.Sc. Kirsten Großmann
- M.Sc. Adrian Roesner
- M.Sc. Annett Heitling
- Tom Frankenstein, M.Sc.
- Martina Nachtsheim, B.Sc.
- Katrin Rösner, M.Sc.
Language:
- offered only in German
Notes:
Admission requirements for taking the module:- None
Admission requirement for participation in module examination(s):
- The examination performance can only be achieved if the final examinations of the modules PT1540-KP08, PT1040-KP10 and PT1530-KP06 have been successfully passed.
- In the case of absences that are not taken into account by the MPhG, §11, Para. 2, the examination board can refuse admission to the module final examination.
Module exam(s):
- PT2500-L1: Evidence-based practice in physiotherapy 2, practical examination, 100% of the module grade
For the Bachelor's degree programmes Physiotherapy 2017 and Physiotherapy 2018, an additional exercise in psychiatry of 0.5Ü is provided.
Last Updated:
11.02.2026