A fully up-to-date compendium of autonomy aids that offer physiotherapy professionals essential support in working to improve the quality of life of patients"

There are numerous and diverse autonomy supports that the physiotherapy professional must be aware of in order to be able to offer them to the people who require them. Studying and understanding them exhaustively is a gateway to effectiveness that will highlight the specific needs of each person, avoiding standardization and taking advantage of individual capabilities, studying their needs and, where appropriate, the limitations that may affect their use.

To intervene in these cases, the professional must assess and explore the patient's resistance and physiological reserves to establish the appropriate framework for action and whether to choose home care, residential care, day care centers, social centers or private clinics.

It is therefore essential to know the tools of physiotherapy and the appropriateness of their application in each case, such as active exercise, manual therapy and electrotherapy. Being able to work in an interdisciplinary team, with appropriate communication tools, understanding the concept of person-centered care, having the most up-to-date knowledge of support devices and even the support of current technology can be key to success in physical therapy treatment.

All the innovations that physiotherapy has achieved in the form of assistive devices, in a program that is configured as a high-level professional training tool"

This Postgraduate certificate in Devices in Physiotherapy to Promote Autonomy offers you the characteristics of a program of high scientific, educational and technological level. These are some of its most notable features:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice 
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification 
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work 
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the program

A learning system that will allow you to combine your studying with your other daily commitments, without losing efficiency or quality"

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive learning programmed to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the academic year. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.

Boost your work capacity and your competitiveness in the labor market with this high-quality program"

With the support of high-quality audiovisual systems, the purpose of this program is that you not only acquire the knowledge, but that, upon completion, you possess the working skills you need in this field"

A complete and innovative program, which includes current topics and other subjects that will provide a review and consolidation of essential basic knowledge. Through a complete and detailed syllabus, you will cover all the essential subject areas, gradually acquiring the skills required to put the necessary knowledge into practice. A very well-developed learning structure that is tailored to your needs and will allow you to learn in a continuous, efficient way.

A complete syllabus that includes all the devices and systems that have been incorporated into physiotherapy, in a highly useful program for the professional"  

Module 1. Update on Support Devices for the Autonomy of People

1.1. Support Product Definition

1.1.1. Framework and Definition of Supporting Product

1.1.1.1. ISO Business School 9999
1.1.1.2. EASTIN

1.1.2. What Characteristics Must Each Support Product (S.P.) Comply With?
1.1.3. Success in Optimal Product Support Advice

1.2. Update on the Different Assistive Devices for Daily Living Activities

1.2.1. Facilitating Devices for Feeding
1.2.2. Dressing Aids 
1.2.3. Facilitating Devices for Hygiene and Personal Care 

1.3. Update on Different Pressure-Dissipating Devices for Pressure Ulcer Prevention  

1.3.1. Sitting  
1.3.2. Supine Position  
1.3.3. Pressure Blanket Evaluation System  

1.4. Transfers  

1.4.1. Transfers and Mobilizations  

1.4.1.1. Common Errors  
1.4.1.2. Basic Guidelines for the Correct Use of the Different Devices  

1.4.2. Device Upgrades  

1.5. Novelties in the Different Devices Designed to Facilitate Mobility and Correct Positioning

1.5.1. General Framework  
1.5.2. Mobility Devices in Geriatrics  

1.5.2.1. Tilting Chair  
1.5.2.2. Scooter  
1.5.2.3. Electronic Driving Wheelchair 
1.5.2.4. Relocation Assistance  
1.5.2.5. Rear Walker 

1.5.3. Positioning Devices in Geriatrics  

1.5.3.1. Backups  
1.5.3.2. Headrest  

1.6. Personalized Devices for the Control of Wanderers, Plesoassistance

1.6.1. Definition of Plesioassistance or Control of Wanderers  
1.6.2. Differences between Plesioassistance and Telecare  
1.6.3. Objectives of Plesioassistance or Control of Wanderers  
1.6.4. Components of the Plesioassistance Devices
1.6.5. Simple Wanderer Control Devices for Home Environments  
1.6.6. Adaptation of the Environment to Facilitate the Wanderer's Orientation  
1.6.7. Summary

1.7. Furniture Support Products for the Improvement of the Environment  
1.8. Upgrading of Accessibility Support Products and Architectural Barrier Removal Products  

1.8.1. Framework for the Abolition of Architectural Barriers and Universal Access to Housing  
1.8.2. Support Products for the Removal of Architectural Barriers in the Living Environment  

1.8.2.1. Ramps  
1.8.2.2. Lift Chairs  
1.8.2.3. Inclined Elevated Platform  
1.8.2.4. Overhead Crane  
1.8.2.5. Short Travel Ladder Platform  
1.8.2.6. Lifting Platform 
1.8.2.7. Stair Climbing Devices  
1.8.2.8. Convertible Ladder

You will learn in such a way that what you have learned becomes fixed and transformed into knowledge, through a structured study that will cover all the points of interest you need to update your practice in geriatric rehabilitation"