The population is aging and a greater contribution should be made to the health care and social services due to the increasing volume of promotion and prevention activities, and the musculoskeletal disorders are in the second place among disability causes and the most common reason for chronic pain. The purpose of the Master\u2019s programme at Tartu Applied Health Sciences University is to provide specialist knowledge and skills focussing on the field of musculoskeletal physiotherapy, taking into account the biopsychosocial whole of the individual, independent of their gender, age, and field of activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The programme creates opportunities for the graduates of physiotherapy education to obtain profound knowledge, advanced skills and professional conduct in the musculoskeletal physiotherapy field<\/strong> in order to increase competence as autonomous physiotherapist who manages working individually or as a team member at various health care system levels, as well as in education and research institutions locally or internationally. Moreover, the programme provides supervised research experience that allows graduates to continue their studies in the third cycle of higher education (PhD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The programme consists of the following modules:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The population is aging and a greater contribution should be made to the health care and social services due to the increasing volume of promotion and prevention activities, and the musculoskeletal disorders are in the second place among disability causes and the most common reason for chronic pain. The purpose of the Master\u2019s programme at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":11539,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11743","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
General Structure of the Programme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Modules\/Subjects<\/strong><\/th> Year I \/
Semester I <\/strong><\/th>Year I \/
Semester II<\/strong><\/th>Year II \/
Semester III<\/strong><\/th>Year II \/
Semester IV<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>Module of basic subjects <\/strong><\/strong> 24.0 ECTS (incl. elective subjects 6 ECTS)<\/strong><\/strong><\/td> Pedagogy 6.0 ECTS<\/strong>
Elective 6.0 ECTS<\/strong><\/td>Counselling methods and techniques 3.0 ECTS<\/strong> <\/strong><\/td> <\/td> Professional development in international cooperation 3.0 ECTS<\/strong>
Management and entrepreneurship 6.0 ECTS<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>Module of specialist subjects in musculoskeletal physiotherapy 66.0 ECTS<\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong> <\/strong><\/td> Functional anatomy and kinesiology masterclass 7.0 ECTS<\/strong>
Practical posture and movement analysis masterclass 5.0 ECTS<\/strong> <\/td>Functional radiology and diagnostic imaging for physiotherapists 3.0 ECTS<\/strong>
Prosthetics and orthotics 3.0 ECTS<\/strong>
Biopsychosocial management of the orthopaedic patient\/client in physiotherapy I 6.0 ECTS<\/strong>
Physiotherapy for pain management 5.0 ECTS<\/strong>
Health promotion and wellbeing I 4.0 ECTS<\/strong><\/td>Biopsychosocial management of the orthopaedic patient\/client in physiotherapy II 3.0 ECTS<\/strong>
Health promotion and wellbeing II 3.0 ECTS<\/strong>
Manual techniques in physiotherapy 12.0 ECTS<\/strong>
Basic body awareness therapy 6.0 ECTS<\/strong> <\/td>Final internship 9.0 ECTS<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Module of Master\u2019s thesis <\/strong><\/strong> 30.0 ECTS<\/strong><\/strong><\/td> Master\u2019s thesis I <\/strong>6.0 ECTS<\/strong><\/td> Master\u2019s thesis II <\/strong>6.0 ECTS<\/strong><\/td> Master\u2019s thesis III 6.0 ECTS<\/strong><\/td> Master\u2019s thesis IV 12.0 ECTS<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n