Rehabilitation Devices and Compensatory Aids

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	450-2096/02
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

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, Lokomatat

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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