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HU Credits:
3
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Occupational Therapy
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Danit Langer
Coordinator Office Hours:
9:00-15:00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Yahav Levy
Dr. ran shabtai
Dr. Danit Langer
Ms. Shira Kraus
Course/Module description:
This course deals with the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with orthopedic injuries. The first part covers a range of diagnoses and their medical treatment, and the second part covers the rehabilitation process in occupational therapy
Course/Module aims:
- provide students with an introduction to diseases, tests and principles of medical intervention
- to introduce students to the role of the occupational therapist in the process of rehabilitation of orthopedic diseases and injuries
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Differentiate between a variety of orthopedic diagnoses
2. Identify and describe the symptoms of common orthopedic diagnoses
3. describe intervention approaches in orthopedic OT
4. recommend appropriate OT intervention
Attendance requirements(%):
80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures, examples, visit to the orthopedic department of Hadassah hospital
Course/Module Content:
1. Treatment and diagnosis of pain
2. Common trauma issues in orthopedics
-fractures: types, biological process of healing
- general treatment, common complications and the rehabilitation process
- examples of fractures: hip, ankle, wrist
- childhood fractures
3. Joint injuries
- fractures in the joints: characteristics, intervention, complications
-sports injuries: characteristics, intervention, complications
- overuse
- shoulder dislocation: characteristics, intervention, complications
4. Orthopedic trauma
- complexities and principles of intervention in terms of open wounds, multiple injuries, injured organs, soft tissue injury, blood system injury, neurological injury
5. Joint disease
- characteristics, intervention, surgery
- joint replacement
6. The spinal cord
- spinal injury and fractures
- deformities of the spinal column
- lower back pain
7. neuro-musculoskeletal disease
8. childhood orthopedic diseases
9. Bone and joint infections
10. Joint disease
11. tumours in the skeletal system
12. introduction to prostheses
13. amputations
Required Reading:
Given separately
Additional Reading Material:
Given separately
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 80 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 20 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Pass mark 70
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