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:

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