COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SPORTS INJURIES AND PHYSIOTHERAPY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTM 5079 SPORTS INJURIES AND PHYSIOTHERAPY ELECTIVE 2 2 0 8

Offered By

Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR NIHAL GELECEK

Offered to

Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy

Course Objective

To inform students and make them gain practice skills about assesment, injury prevention, physiotherapy applications after injury and return to sport in Sports Physiotherapy

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Sports physiological basis of sports physiotherapy; summarizes athletic injuries and rehabiliation process
2   Sorts assesment principles after sports injuries and make individual-specific assesments
3   Describes injuries and healing proceses of soft tissues, bones and joints
4   Sorts physiotherapy applications after sports injury, composes and applies individual-specific physiotherapy program
5   Sorts return to work criteria and applies it in the field

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Physiological basis of Sports Physiotherapy (Basic concepts: Performance, fitness, sport-specific development, muscular overload and overtrarning principles,etc.. ,types of muscle contraction, composing principles of exercise prescription)
2 Athletic Injuries and healing process
3 Assesment principles after sport injuries
4 Assesment principles after sport injuries
5 Athletic ligament injuries and healing process
6 Athletic tendon injuries and healing process
7 Muscle injuries in athletes and healing process
8 Bone and joint injuries in athletes and healing process
9 Columna vertebralis injuries in athletes and healing process
10 Physiotherapy applications after sport injuries (Hot & Cold modalities, electrotherapy applications)
11 Physiotherapy applications after sport injuries ( Flexibility training, Muscular strength and Endurance training, Proprioceptive and Plyometric training)
12 Functional rehabilitation and return to sport
13 Discussion on cases with athletic injuries and physiotherapy applications
14 Discussion on cases with athletic injuries and physiotherapy applications
15 Course overview

Recomended or Required Reading

1. e-library of the University of Dokuz Eylul University
2. Eric Shamus, Jennifer Shamus. Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation. McGraw-Hill Medical; 1 edition 2001.ISBN13: 9780071354752
3. G. Puddu .Rehabilitation of Sports Injuries: Current Concepts. 2001 SpringerISBN-13: 978-3540674757.
4. 4. Gregory Kolt. Physical Therapies in Sport and Exercise. Churchill Livingstone; 2 edition 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0443103513

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Conference, Practice, Laboratory

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRF PERFORMANCE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRF


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Nihal GELECEK
School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Tutorials 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Preparing assignments 1 4 4
Preparing presentations 14 4 56
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.111
LO.21111
LO.311
LO.41111
LO.5111

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