COURSE UNIT TITLE

: REHABILITATION OF THE FRACTURES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTO 5007 REHABILITATION OF THE FRACTURES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Orthopaedic Physiotherapy

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR BAYRAM ÜNVER

Offered to

Orthopaedic Physiotherapy

Course Objective

To give information to students about formation, types, healing process, treatment techniques and rehabilitation of fracture

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, student will be able to define mechanisms, symptoms, classifications, types of healings, treatment techniques and complications of fracture
2   At the end of this course, student will be able to make general physiotherapy assesment and compose treatment programme of a patient with fracture
3   At the end of this course, student will be able to define basic principles of fracture rehabiliation
4   At the end of this course, student will be able to perform physiotherapy and rehabilitation for a patient with spinal fracture
5   At the end of this course, student will be able to perform physiotherapy and rehabilitation for a patient with lower/upper extremity fracture

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition, formation, symptoms, types and classification of fracture
2 Healing process of fracture and treatment techniques, complications of fracture
3 General assesment principles for a patient with fracture
4 General physiotherapy principles for a patient with fracture
5 General physiotherapy principles for a patient with fracture
6 Physiotherapy for hip and thigh fractures
7 Physiotherapy for knee and calf fractures
8 Physiotherapy for ankle and foot fractures
9 Physiotherapy for shoulder and arm fractures
10 Mid-term Exam
11 Physiotherapy for elbow and forearm fractures
12 Physiotherapy for wrist fractures
13 Physiotherapy for hand and finger fractures
14 Physiotherapy for spinal fractures
15 Physiotherapy for spinal fractures
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Clinical Orthopaedics Rehabilitation, Brotzman SB
2- Geriatric Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, Goldstein T.
3- Hand rehabilitation. Clark GL
4- Orthopedic therapy of the shoulder / Ed. Martin J. Kelley, William A. Clark
5- Orthopedic rehabilitation science : princibles for clinical management of bone/ Katie Lundon
6- Treatment and rehabilitation of fractures. Hoppenfeld S
7- Spine care / Ed. A. H. White, J. A. Schaffer

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures
2. Preparation of presentation by students

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

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)

Tel: 24916
e-mail: selnur62@hotmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 4 4
Preparation for Final Exam 1 6 6
Preparing Presentations 13 2 26
Final 1 1 1
1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 105

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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