Course leader: Renata Vauhnik

Home Institution: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Physiotherapy, Slovenia

Course Overview

Review of the most common musculoskeletal injuries of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle. Risk factors for musculoskeletal injuries of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle. Evidence based physiotherapy for musculoskeletal injuries of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle. 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course students should be able to synthesize the information about:

- the most common musculoskeletal injuries of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle

- the risk factors of most common musculoskeletal injuries of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle

- the evidence based physiotherapy for most common musculoskeletal injuries of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle.

Course Content

Review of the most common musculoskeletal injuries of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle. Risk factors for musculoskeletal injuries of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle. Evidence based physiotherapy for musculoskeletal injuries of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle.

Instructional Method

Interactive lectures

Practical tutorials

Group projects

Required Course Materials

Levangie PK, Norkin CC. (2011) Joint structure and function. A comprehensive analysis. P. A. Davis. Fourth edition.

Gwendolen J, Moore A, Falla D, Lewis J, McCarthy C, Sterling M. (2015) Grieve’s Modern Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy. Elsevier. Fourth edition.

Assessment

Written examination 50%

Group project 50%