Rehabilitation Devices and Compensatory Aids

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	450-2096/01
Abbreviation	RTKP
Course title	Rehabilitation Devices and Compensatory Aids
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Martin Augustynek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

961/5000
The topics below specify areas of interest. They are always part of the overview and parts dealing with technical solutions common to the area
Lectures:
1. Introduction to the problem
2. Compensation aids
3. Prostheses, orthoses
4. Locomotors
5. Switches, adapters, communicators
6. Sensory aids
7. Balance therapy - unstable platforms
8. Biofeedback
9. Domestic aids, aids for sports
10. Dynamometry, Ergometry
11. Videography, EMG
12. Mechanotherapy, posturography
13. Pedagogy, pedoplantography Armeo
14. Balance trainer, Lokomat
Exercises:
1. Principles of rehabilitation exercises
2. Compensation aids
3. Prostheses, orthoses
4. Locomotors
5. Switches, adapters, communicators
6. Sensory aids
7. Balance therapy - unstable platforms
8. Biofeedback
9. Domestic aids, aids for sports
10. Dynamometry, Ergometry
11. Videography, EMG
12. Mechanotherapy, posturography
13. Pedagogy, pedoplantography Armeo
14. Balance trainer, Lokomat

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en

Literature

SANDERS, Martha J, ed. Ergonomics and the management of musculoskeletal disorders. 2nd ed. St. Louis: Butterworth-Heinemann, c2004. ISBN 0-7506-7409-1.

Advised literature

RADOMSKI, Mary Vining a Catherine A. Trombly LATHAM, ed. Occupational therapy for physical dysfunction. 6th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008. ISBN 978-0-7817-6312-7.

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