Ergotherapy

Lecturer:

Simona Hájková (gar.), Olga Košťálková

Tutor:

Pavla Dvořáková, Blanka Weissová

Supervisor:

Department of medical branches and humanities

Synopsis:

Ergotherapy is therapy by labour. Its target is the identification of the occupation enjoyment and integration of persons with physical, sensory or mental handicaps.

The target is training of professional and social capacity to achieve the independence in the personal, social and professional life.

Principles: delimitation of ergotherapy as a tool of the medical rehabilitation; position of ergotherapy as related to other medicinal procedures. Working with patients in ergotherapy. Ergotherapy includes targeted and fitness education and education for self-sufficiency and independence. What are the tasks of self-sufficiency and its possibilities in different types of involvements? What complex tools are available? Ergotherapy in childhood: motoricity involvements, psychomotor development. Role of games and toys in ergotherapy, neurophysiological techniques. Te use of ergotherapy in involvements of peripheral nerves and of the central nervous system.

CNS: ergotherapy in cerebrovascular events: self-sufficiency, independence, targeted ergotherapy and ergotherapy in different types of aphasia. Ergotherapy in psychiatry, and in mental disorders, functional and fitness ergotherapy, creative activities, self-sufficiency, tools. Ergotherapy in ageing population - special features of ergotherapy in different groups of elderly people, fitness and creative activities, self-sufficiency, tools. Ergotherapy in involvements of the hand - possibilities of targeted ergotherapy in different involvements of the hand; compensatory tools.

Tasks of ergotherapy: sensory-locomotor functional therapy, training of cognitive functions and self-sufficiency, training in home environment.

Requirements:

credit:

100% participation in practical exercises,

demonstration of the knowledge mastered by a written test.

examination:

written test, 80% success rate.

Oral examination on the basis of the decision field supervisor.

caution: intervals between repeated examinations must not be shorter than seven days.

Syllabus of lectures:

Targets and tasks of ergotherapy

Scheme of work with a patient

Indication of ergotherapy and gradual loading

Testing in ergotherapy

Keeping of ergotherapeutic documentation and compilation of an ergotherapeutic plan

Therapeutic education to independence

Therapeutic education to independence

Removal of architectural barriers

Compensatory tools

Compensatory tools

Syllabus of tutorials:

Working activities and techniques of their training: writing by hand and by typewriter , writing with the help of a compensatory tool

Working activities and techniques of their training: writing by hand and by typewriter , writing with the help of a compensatory tool

Training of the grip, weaving, ceramics

Training of the grip, graphic arts, arts and crafts, visual crafts

Training of the grip, metalworking shop, joiner´s shop

Study Objective:

Targets:

to master basic knowledge within the subject to the extent necessary for the performance of the profession in the branch physiotherapist.

Study materials:

Pfeiffer, J.: Ergoterapie. Praha, Grada 2006

Pfeiffer, J. a kol.: Fyziologie a léčebná rehabilitace motoriky člověka, Grada 2005

Klusoňová, E.; Špičková, J.: Ergoterapie I. Praha, Avicenum 1990

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Bakalářský studijní obor Fyzioterapie - prezenční (compulsory course)