Module PT3010-KP06
Evidence-based practice in rehabilitation, prophylaxis and geriatrics (RFSuMm)
Duration
1 Semester
Turnus of offer
each winter semester
Credit points
6
Course of studies, specific fields and terms:
- Bachelor Physiotherapy 2022, compulsory, Scientific theory and practice
Classes and lectures:
- Evidence-based practice in geriatrics (exercise, 1.8 SWS)
- Red Flag Screening (lecture, 2 SWS)
- Evidence-based practice in geriatrics (seminar, 1.2 SWS)
Workload:
- 75 hours in-classroom work
- 105 hours private studies
Contents of teaching:
- Quality of life and quality of care
- ICF / MDBB models
- Aid supply
- Integrated care for incontinence, dementia, migraines, dizziness
- Funding factors to improve the participation of older clients and multimorbidity
- Physiotherapeutic, home care, taking multimorbidity into account
- Focus on neurorehabilitation in physiotherapeutic, home care
- Geriatric assessments
- Special requirements of geriatric patients (physical, pharmaceutical therapeutic and psychological features such as immobility, instability, intellectual incompetence, incontinence, inappetence, isolation, multimorbidity and polypharmacy)
- Creation of training concepts (fall prevention, dementia, etc.)
- Decision making and therapy goal planning
- Interprofessionalism in geriatric treatment
- Efficient and safe detection of red flags for pathologies that require medical diagnosis and treatment
- Learn screening procedures for the various body regions using case presentations and exercises to recognize clinical patterns
- Pathologies / differential diagnoses with symptoms in the musculoskeletal system
- Screening tests for fractures, peripheral neurological pathologies, abdominal aortic aneurism, and peripheral vascular disease
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
- Students can recognize biopsychosocial circumstances and integrate them therapeutically.
- They can analyze and reflect on ethically challenging supply situations.
- They are able to adapt their therapeutic action to challenging supply conditions.
- Students can safely and efficiently differentiate between symptoms that can be treated by physiotherapy and symptoms that require further medical diagnosis.
- They are able to identify the most common pathologies that cause symptoms in the musculoskeletal system and that can be confused with functional disorders that can be treated with physiotherapy.
- They are able to identify fractures, vascular diseases and peripheral neurological symptoms using screening tests and can precisely communicate test results to doctors.
Grading through:
- written homework
Responsible for this module:
- Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lüdtke
Teacher:
- external institution
- Institute of Health Sciences
- Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lüdtke
- Katrin Rösner, M.Sc.
- Dr. med. Sonja Krupp
Language:
- offered only in German
Notes:
Admission requirements for taking the module:- None
Admission requirements for participation in module examination(s):
- The examination performance can only be achieved if the module final examination of the module PT1530-KP06 has 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):
- PT3010-L1: Red Flag Screening and Multimorbidity, written paper, 100% of the module grade
Last Updated:
27.02.2026