Physical Activity across the Lifespan

Abstract

This subject will focus on the role of the podiatrist in maintaining a person’s physical activity, mobility and independence across the lifespan, to ensure optimal physical and mental health. Students will explore opportunities for podiatrists to collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team. Students will extend their understanding of lower limb physiology and pathology in the context of daily activity, sport and exercise. Students will develop knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of diverse groups, with an emphasis on the practical application of therapeutic modalities and digital technologies for rehabilitation and activity-based interventions. This subject will contribute to the student’s preparation for endorsement for scheduled medicine and progression towards competence in prescribing injectable corticosteroid drugs.

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics: Principles of rehabilitation and sports medicine: maintaining and enhancing physical activity across the lifespan; role of evidence when using rehabilitation and physical activity as an intervention; interdisciplinary rehabilitation teams;Assessment of lower limb physiology and pathology: exercise and sports-related injury;Exercise prescription: enabling physical activity … For more content click the Read More button below.

This subject will cover the following topics:

Principles of rehabilitation and sports medicine: maintaining and enhancing physical activity across the lifespan; role of evidence when using rehabilitation and physical activity as an intervention; interdisciplinary rehabilitation teams;
Assessment of lower limb physiology and pathology: exercise and sports-related injury;
Exercise prescription: enabling physical activity to enhance health and well-being; managing lower limb pathology; and
Person-focused therapeutics: individual concerns and expectations about health, including the use of medicines to maintain health; therapeutic modalities including: manual therapies; electro-physical therapies; relevant potential benefits, harms, medicine-related and person-specific factors relevant to the prescription of injectable corticosteroid drugs.

Assessment items

1. Clinical skills assessment

2. Response to case scenario 1

3. Response to case scenario 2

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

apply fundamental principles of rehabilitation and sports medicine to maintain and enhance physical activity across the lifespan;

use an evidence-based approach when recommending activity-based interventions for acute and chronic conditions as part of a holistic person-focused rehabilitation program;

explain the role of a podiatrist in an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team;

demonstrate correct application of therapeutic modalities and provide an ethical justification for their use;

justify pharmaceutical and non-pharmacological management options for musculoskeletal pathology affecting the foot and leg to demonstrate adequate and current knowledge of medicines prior to prescribing; and

discuss relevant potential benefits, harms, medicine-related and person-specific factors to inform an ethical justification for the use of drugs to treat musculoskeletal pathology.

Assumed knowledge

A fundamental knowledge of lower limb anatomy and physiology. Foundational skills in musculoskeletal assessment of the lower limb.

Enrolment restrictions

Restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor Podiatric Medicine or Bachelor Podiatric Medicine (Honours).

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