Syllabus
Lectures:
1. Physiotherapy in sport - characteristics, introduction to the subject
2. Characteristics of selected sports activities - physiological, biomechanical aspects, general principles of physiotherapy in sport, distribution of injuries and their solutions, sport orthotics
3. Functional diagnostics of musculoskeletal system in athletes from the perspective of physiotherapist; timely assessment of sports prerequisites.
4. Sports injuries - possibilities and limitations of physiotherapist's work
5. Most frequent disability, overload in selected sports activities;; hypermobility in sport
6. Influence the performance of the athlete by using physiotherapeutic techniques and methods
7. Physiotherapeutic intervention in sportsman training; sporting population - possibilities of physiotherapeutic intervention
8. Principles of sports training with implications for the work of a physiotherapist 9 -
14. Physiotherapy in selected sport branches Exercises:
1.-14. Analysis of causes, possibilities of accidents in selected sport branches, application of preventive and therapeutic procedures in sportsmen and common sporting population
Annotation
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with sports physiotherapy as one of the possible specialities in internationally. Then give an overview of the possibilities of physiotherapy intervention in sport.
Aim of the practical training is to acquire knowledge and especially skills of athletes of selected sports in the application procedures analyzing causes, possibilities of injury, as well as preventive and therapeutic procedures for the most common problems associated with these activities. Emphasis is also placed on the possibilities of physiotherapy intervention common, sporting populations at different ages.