Comprehensive Care for Children with Neurological Disabilities - PFYZ054C

• Title: Comprehensive Care for Children with Neurological Disabilities
• Guaranteed by: Department of Physiotherapy (51-300400)
• Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 28 [hours]
• Capacity: 0 / 0 (0)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: deregister from the credit exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled; course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Tereza Nováková, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Tereza Nováková, Ph.D.
• Classification: Sport and Physical Education > Rehabilitation
• Co-requisite : PFYZ001C, PFYZ074C
• In complex incompatibility with: PFYZ219C

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

The aim of the course is to extend the knowledge and skills in physiotherapeutic procedures over obligatory subjects. The practical part is led by a demonstration of various possible approaches, techniques, and methodologies. It also highlights the types of healthcare facilities that provide a comprehensive approach to caring for children with this kind of disability.

Aim of the course

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Nováková, Ph.D. (19.09.2020)

Learning Outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and general competencies so that after the completion of the course the students:

• demonstrates an understanding of the principles of basic motor development disorders, including CKP and DMO (see course syllabus)

• demonstrates knowledge of concomitant disorders in children with cerebral palsy (sensory, speech, EPI, internal, emotional, behavior, etc.).

• demonstrates the ability to orient in characteristic clinical pictures of neurological disabilities and specifics of care

• demonstrates knowledge of the system of comprehensive care for children with neurological disabilities in the Czech Republic

• demonstrates the ability to define the prerequisites for the success of the rehabilitation process and the need for teamwork

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

ELIASON, A. C.,et al. (2006). The Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) for children with cerebral palsy: scale development and evidence of validity and reliability. Developmental medicine and child neurology, 48(7), 549-554.

RAINA, P., O'DONNELL, M., ROSENBAUM, P., BREHAUT, et al. (2005). The health and well-being of caregivers of children with cerebral palsy. Pediatrics, 115(6), e626-e636.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Credit Requirements:

• active participation in practical lessons

• presentation of case study

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Lectures:

1. Brain movement disorder (CP) - diagnostics, classification, developmental dynamics.

2. Accompanying disorders in children with CP (sensory, speech, EPI, internal, emotional, behavior, etc.).

3. Characteristics of clinical images of other neurological disorders and specifics of care.

4. Assumptions of successful rehabilitation process. Teamwork.

5. Spa care, day care centers, organization of leisure activities.

6. System of comprehensive care for children with neurological disabilities in the Czech Republic.

7. International experience in solving the issue of comprehensive care for children with disabilities.

Exercises:

1.-7. Demonstration (visit clinic).

Learning resources

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Nováková, Ph.D. (19.09.2020)

The subject is not currently taught.