Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module students should:
1. Demonstrate the ability to relate the pathology of the nervous system to clinical presentations of neurological conditions.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the factors affecting recovery and motor relearning following injury to the CNS.
3. Evaluate assessment findings on people with CNS lesions, in order to plan safe and effective treatments including formulating problem lists, goal setting, appropriate outcome measure selection, appropriate referral to members of the multidisciplinary team and employing advanced clinical reasoning skills to determine appropriate treatment principles to apply.
4. Demonstrate a knowledge of the multidisciplinary management of people with neurological problems through all stages of the
condition/disease.
5. Apply best available evidence to inform safe and effective neurological physiotherapy practice.
Indicative Module Content:
Topics covered include:
• Neurological Pathologies; Neuromuscular conditions: Motor Neurone Disease; Polyneuropathies including Guillain Barre;
Ataxias Cerebellar, Sensory & Vestibular; including Friedreich's Ataxia; Traumatic Brain Injury; Myopathies; Spinal Cord Injury;
Traumatic brain injury; Neurosurgery
• Paediatric Neurology: Normal Development of the Brain; Developmental Milestones; Common conditions in paediatrics:
Cerebral Palsy; Spina Bifida; Muscular Dystrophy
• Neurological Rehabilitation and Theoretical constructs in Neurological Rehabilitation
• Motor control theories and motor learning
• Management; Treatment of hypotonia & hypertonia (identifying compensations in the trunk); Handling skills; Upper limb
rehabilitation & management of hemiplegic shoulder pain; Lower limb rehabilitation & Gait training and re-education; The role
of the Multidisciplinary team in patient management in neurology
• Case studies in Neurology using International Classification of Functioning (ICF); Post neurosurgery following Arteriovenous
Malformation excision / TBI: Early ICU; late rehabilitation