Guia docente 2023_24
Facultade de Fisioterapia
Grado en Fisioterapia
 Subjects
  Manual Therapy
   Training and Learning Results
Code Description
A2 Students are able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the competences usually demonstrated through the development and defence of arguments and problem solving within their field of study.
B3 Communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, with users of the health system as well as with other professionals.
C1 To know the principles and theories of physical agents and their applications in physical therapy.
C15 Understand ergonomic and anthropometric principles.
C16 Analyze, program and apply movement as a therapeutic measure, promoting the participation of the patient/user in the process.
C17 Know, design and apply the different modalities and general procedures of intervention in Physiotherapy: Massage Therapy, Electrotherapy, Magnetotherapy, Hydrotherapy, Balneotherapy, Climatotherapy, Thalassotherapy, Thermotherapy, Cryotherapy, Vibrotherapy, Phototherapy, Pressure Therapy, therapies derived from other physical agents, as well as fundamental aspects of Ergotherapy and other therapies related to the field of competence of physiotherapy.
C19 Understand and perform specific methods and techniques related to the locomotor system (including manual therapies, joint manipulative therapies, osteopathy and chiropractic), neurological processes, respiratory system, cardiocirculatory system and static and dynamic alterations. Specific methods and techniques that take into account the implications of orthopedics in physiotherapy, reflex therapeutic techniques, as well as other alternative and/or complementary methods and techniques whose safety and efficacy is demonstrated according to the state of development of science.
C20 Identify the most appropriate physiotherapeutic treatment in the different processes of alteration, prevention and health promotion as well as in the processes of growth and development.
C30 To know the professional ethical and deontological codes.
C36 To know and understand the methods, procedures and physiotherapeutic actions, aimed at both the actual therapy to be applied in the clinic for the reeducation or functional recovery, as well as the implementation of activities aimed at the promotion and maintenance of health.
D1 Ability to communicate orally and in writing in Galician.
D8 Ability to understand the meaning and application of the gender perspective in different areas of knowledge and professional practice with the aim of achieving a more just and egalitarian society.
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