Physiotherapy (Pre-Registration)

This module aims to build on your knowledge, skills and understanding of holistic healthcare practice, healthcare issues and clinical reasoning to develop your skills in evidenced based physiotherapeutic management strategies across the specialisms within physiotherapy. 

The module will equip students with the skills to select and apply clinically reasoned interventions, approaches and treatments based on problem identification from assessment findings. It will develop your ability to prescribe and deliver exercise to individuals and groups of patients in varied practice settings. 

You will study topics such as: 

• Principals and approaches of physiotherapeutic management
• Practical handling skills
• Foundations of therapeutic exercise and physiological response to exercise
• Principals of exercise and exercise prescription
• Psychosocially informed management and impact on outcomes
• Modifiable and non-modifiable factors
• Pathology, pathology recognition and / pathophysiology
• Impairment to body structures and function
• Manual approaches to management
• Therapeutic exercise and physiological response to exercise
• Principles and safe application of exercise prescription for individuals and groups
• Treatment Adjuncts
• Safety and Evaluation
• Clinical reasoning in progression / regression of treatment
• Barriers to successful outcomes / determinants of health
• Evidenced based practice and clinical reasoning
• Collaborative practice and goal setting
• Outcome measurements and measuring change
• Clinical reasoning in progression / regression of treatment
• Biopsychosocial Influencing factors in management

The aim of this module is to enable you to apply knowledge of research theories, including epistemology, and methods in order to critically evaluate research paradigms and evidence for practice. It will enable you to develop a critical understanding of research approaches, principles and processes that underpin research activity in the workplace and address the ethical dilemmas and organisational complexities of undertaking practice-based research.

Indicative content:

• Research paradigms
• Research context
• Research Question Development ·
• Research methods
• Systematic literature review
• Data collection
• Methods of data analysis
• Ethics and research governance Service user involvement in research
• Inclusive perspectives of research
• Proposal development

This module aims to develop your knowledge, skills and critical understanding of physiotherapeutic assessment, theory, body systems structure and function and clinical reasoning for healthcare practice. 

You will develop your understanding of anatomy and normal function to enable you to understand how these inform physiotherapy assessment. You will be introduced to common pathologies across these systems and consider how these may impact on clinical assessment findings. 

You will study topics such as:

• Principals and theory of physiotherapeutic assessment
• Practical and therapeutic handling skills
• Approaches to practice within different specialities of physiotherapy
• Anatomy & Body systems relating to structure and function
• Physiology theory and application
• Movement analysis
• Key lifestyle factors and influence on health
• Introduction to models of Clinical reasoning
• Principals of rehabilitation
• Principals of professionalism and professional practice
• Principals of therapeutic relationship and alliance
• Biopsychosocial model and application to healthcare
• Public health issues
• Clinical guidelines
• Common pathologies
• Equality, diversity and inclusivity within healthcare practice
• Applied anatomy and physiology of body systems e.g. Musculoskeletal, Neurological and Cardiovascular respiratory
• Safety and risk assessment (Red Flags)
• Basic application of clinical reasoning skills for problem identification

This module will enable you to appreciate the roles and responsibilities of a physiotherapist and start to develop your knowledge, skills and professional practice through observation of practice and participation in learning activities.
You will study topics such as:
• Legal and ethical issues related to practice
• Underpinning essentials of assessment strategy
• The rationale and purpose for the assessment process and what influences the process
• Undertaking assessment
• Person centred practice
• Communication
• Planning
• Goal setting
• Measurement
• Documentation and record keeping
• Consent
• Preparation for practice - introducing placement administrative procedures and supporting students in preparation for undertaking practice-based learning
• Integration with teams

This module aims to support you to develop and apply your professional, interpersonal and decision-making skills.
You will practice and apply skills such as:
• Reflective practice
• Planning and organisation of workload
• Modification of behaviour and actions in response to situations
• Utilise a range of communication strategies and modify to the situation
• Build effective and collaborative relationships
• Awareness of wider determinants of health
• Promotion of inclusion and anti-discriminatory behaviour
• Analysis of information
• Reasoning and application of interventions and intervention planning
• Structuring of relevant information
• Modification of approaches in response to change
• Generation of evidence to support professional development through Portfolio development

This module aims to apply your critical understanding and knowledge of physiotherapy practice in managing complexity, optimisation of care and health promotion within diverse populations. You will consider critical synthesis and application of evidenced based practice in relation to the holistic assessment and management of specialist complex populations including wider determinants of health and service delivery. You will reflect upon your approach, developing professional skills and learning needs in preparation for autonomous practice. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Managing complexity in practice
• Spinal anatomy & central nervous system
• Special populations
• Optimising outcomes
• Self-awareness and reflection on professional development and needs
• Equality, diversity and inclusion in leadership
• Synthesis of evidence for clinical decision making
• Cognitive interventions
• Patient centred practice
• Health promotion and advocacy
• Psychosocial well-being of self and others
• Education, advice and health promotion
• Differential diagnosis
• Digital technology and tools
• Information gathering from wider sources
• Service delivery and complex discharge planning or preventative strategies
• Leadership & Autonomous practice
• Wider determinants of health and healthcare delivery, including political, social, economic and institutional factors influencing the delivery of health and social care

This module will enable you to develop and conduct an in depth investigation of a topic that challenges and contributes to your area of professional practice. It provides the opportunity to engage in and apply an understanding of research methods and demonstrate your ability to work with relative autonomy in undertaking a sustained, in-depth piece of independent learning, disseminating findings to your professional community

Indicative content:

• Creating and contributing to research and evaluation for practice 
• Application of approaches to research, research methods including improvement and evaluation methodologies
•  Project planning 
• Data Analysis & Interpretation 
• Data Management 
• Dissemination of findings 
• Challenges in applying study outcomes to practice
•  Addressing inclusivity in your research process.

This module enables you to critically reflect on and evaluate the key components of integrated health and social care required to effectively support service users, carers and their families who have complex health and care needs.

You’ll learn through content linked to the case studies which are used to frame the module. This will include specific interventions related to physical and psycho-social challenges in addressing complex needs of patients with acute and long term conditions across a range of delivery settings in which you will work with other disciplines. Other elements of content will address the following:

• Co-morbidity
• Policy and legislation
• Care pathways
• Clinical reasoning
• Integrated care and advanced practitioner roles
• Leadership

This module aims to develop your professional, interpersonal and decision-making skills.

You will practice and apply skills such as:

• Reflective practice
• Planning and organisation of workload
• Modification of behaviour and actions in response to situations
• Utilising a range of communication strategies and modify to the situation
• Build effective and collaborative relationships
• Awareness of wider determinants of health
• Promotion of inclusion and anti-discriminatory behaviour
• Analysis of information
• Reasoning and application of interventions and intervention planning
• Structuring of relevant information
• Modification of approaches in response to change
• Generation of Evidence to support professional development through Portfolio development

This module aims to enhance your holistic approach to management across a range of settings and develop your autonomy in preparation for qualification.

You will develop your skills in the following areas:

• Developing your autonomous working
• Leadership and delegation
• Professional judgement
• Prioritisation, clinical reasoning and decision making
• Holistic approaches to assessment and management.
• Adaptation and modification of communication, approaches, behaviour
• Intervention modification
• Person / client centred management
• Evaluation of effectiveness of own intervention
• Psychosocially informed approaches to person management.
• Audit
• Critical reflection