Physiotherapy (Qualifying for the Health Profession of Physiotherapist)
- Spain
What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?
What does it train you for?
This Bachelor's Degree is designed for physiotherapist scientific and professional training (DM no. 741/94- Professional Profile of the Physiotherapist), a graduate professional dealing with recovery from pathological conditions concerning motor impairment, from strictly physical features to the psychomotor and cognitive domains, managing patients at all ages (from newborns to the elderly).
Physiotherapists autonomously apply therapeutic activity to the functional re-education of motor, psychomotor and cognitive disabilities using therapeutic exercise, physical, manual, massage and occupational therapies.
They plan the timing of application of the various techniques, consider indications and contraindications and verify the appropriateness of the rehabilitative methodology chosen to the final functional recovery goal.
The course’s priority is the theoretical/practical study of rehabilitation sciences and physiotherapy, performed through lectures, exercises, teaching laboratories and professional training in the rehabilitation of the musculoskeletal, neuromotor, respiratory and visceral cardio apparatus in all age groups. 19 integrated course are distributed over 3 years, divided into semesters, with 3 integrated internships for a total of 180 ECTS.
To graduate students have to pass all course exams and a final test with a qualifying examination and dissertation.
Exams take place in 3 sessions x year, each with 3 different examination dates.
What do you learn?
The Bachelor's Degree aims to structure the methodological path in the physiotherapy-rehabilitation field, and in particular to teach how to perform an assessment of the function, how to identify the lesion and formulate a correct treatment program in the various pathological conditions to achieve the functional recovery objectives.
Based on clinical reasoning, the student is trained to: choose the most suitable rehabilitation-physiotherapy technique and use highly specialized therapeutic approaches, including manual, physical, occupational therapies and therapeutic exercises based on scientific and clinical evidence criteria; verify the applied rehabilitation methodology.
It also aims to deepen the adoption of prostheses and aids, train in their use and verify their effectiveness.
Knowledge is acquired in the disciplines of Physics, Biology and Biochemistry, Psychology and Pedagogy, Human Anatomy and Physiology.
The study of the main diseases of interest for rehabilitation is deepened, with particular reference to pathologies in the cardiovascular, pneumological, orthopedic-traumatological, neurological fields, etc., both in developmental age and in adulthood.
In the disciplinary field of Prevention, the objective is to provide data on the basic concepts of epidemiology, public health and essential elements of corporate organization with particular reference to the field of health services.
What can you do with it?
Physiotherapists work in public, private-accredited or private health facilities in an employment or freelance capacity.
Existing laws allow them to work in individual or associated professional studies.
Physiotherapy graduates generally find work within one year of graduation and can continue their studies to obtain a master's degree in rehabilitation health professions.