Physiotherapy

Within the bachelor programme „ Physiotherapy“ students are both educated for existing and developing work areas as well as for scientific work in the fields of activity of physiotherapy. Graduated students will both have well-founded physiotherapeutical and scientific knowledge and skills as well as excellent social skills and some basic knowledge of Business Administration.

Additionally, they’ll have knowledge and skills in one interdisciplinary and two physiotherapeutical specialisations.
By in the Program integrated courses “medical English” the graduates will be able to use international scientific literature and to communicate and work on a professional level in the context of international co-operation.

Career Possibilities
Graduates will be enabled to work as employed or as free-lance physiotherapists in both the intramural and extramural as well as in the scientific sector of the health care system sector. The students are educated to work in the following fields of employment:

• Private and public hospitals
• Day hospitals
• Spa center
• Elderly and nursing homes
• Rehabilitation centres
• Social and private insurance companies
• Trade unions, chamber for employees' welfare and professional associations
• Educational und research institutions
• Producers of medical products
• Institutions of health prevention and health promotion

Core Modules

• Intra- and interdisciplinarity in the field of Physiotherapy
• Biomedical fundamentals
• Functional disorders of the human body
• General physiotherapeutical techniques
• The physiotherapeutical diagnosis and treatment process
• Social and applied human sciences
• English
• Scientific research
• Professional practical training
• 2 physiotherapeutical specialisation
• 1 interdisciplinary specialisation

Core Competences and Lectures

Professional and methodical competences

• Embryology and Sensomotoric Development of the Human Body
• Functions and Structures of the Human Body
• Medical Biophysics and Biochemistry
• Kinematics
• Training Studies and Performance Diagnostics
• General Pathology and Hygiene
• Functional disorders of the Musculoskeletal and Nervous System
• Functional disorders of the internal Organ System
• Functional disorders of the Musculoskeletal, Nervous and internal Organ System
• General Examination Techniques
• General Treatment Techniques
• Methods and Didactics for Teaching in the Field of Physiotherapy
• Methods and Didactics for Teaching Disabled People in winter Sport
• Methods and Didactics for Teaching Disabled People in summer Sport
• Specific Examination and Treatment Techniques
• Case Studies
• Physiotherapy within the Healthcare System
• Intra- and Interdisciplinary Co-operation in the Field of Physiotherapy
• Professional Ethics
• International Co-operations in the Field of Physiotherapy
• Professional practical training

Social and communicative competences

• Psychosocial Aspects in the Field of Physiotherapy
• Medical English

Scientific competences

• Research Methods:

   Basic principles of scientific research

   Research process

   General methodology

   Search and proper use of literature

   Data analysis and presentation

   Presentation techniques
• Bachelor thesis seminars

Business Administration and juridical competences

• Jurisprudence within the Healthcare System
• Basics of Business Administration in the Field of Physiotherapie

Specialisations/optional lectures

• Clinical Themes in the Field of Physiotherapy A or B
• Physiotherapy for People with Special Needs C or D
• Pedagogic in the Field of Physiotherapy (E) or
• Research in the Field of Physiotherapy (F)

A, B, C, D, E, F = optional lectures