Content Official Master's Degree in Advanced Techniques in Physiotherapeutic Intervention

Ideal student profile

The University Master’s degree in Advanced Intervention Techniques in Physiotherapy offers specialist professional training, while including the area of research, and is aimed at qualified physiotherapists who want to expand their knowledge in different areas of physiotherapy to offer more efficient care.
The student profile for this qualification is as follows:

Basic skills

• Have and understand knowledge that offers a base or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
• Know how to apply the knowledge acquired and capacity to solve problems in new or little known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the area of study.
• Capacity to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgements from information which, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgements.
• Ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solution to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Possession of learning abilities which allow for continued study which is largely self-directed or autonomous.

Specific skills

• Recognise and differentiate in depth anatomical, biomechanical, physiological and pathological changes that produce alterations in the motor, cardiorespiratory and urogynaecological systems which can be treated by physiotherapy.
• Assess the patient using advanced physiotherapy tools, instruments and observations with the aim of determining the degree to which the motor apparatus, nervous, cardiorespiratory and urogynaecological systems are affected and the resulting functioning of them.
• Draw up an orientative diagnosis in physiotherapy in complex clinical situations, in accordance with the internationally recognised norms and measuring instrument, in changes and/or dysfunction of the motor apparatus, nervous, cardiorespiratory and urogynaecological systems which can be treated with physiotherapy.
• Design an advanced intervention plan in physiotherapy adjusted to the clinic and the needs of the patient whose motor apparatus, nervous, cardiorespiratory and urogynaecological systems are affected and can be treated using physiotherapy.
• Apply, revise and adapt different procedures, methods and techniques for physiotherapy treatment that are adjusted to the clinic and the needs of the patient whose motor apparatus, nervous, cardiorespiratory and urogynaecological systems are affected and can be treated using physiotherapy.
• Indicate the most effective measures for the prevention of illness in each clinical situation according to the physiotherapy intervention.
• Apply scientific methods in the planning and resolution of complex clinical problems in the different areas of intervention in physiotherapy.
• Use the necessary methodological bases to plan, design and carry out experimental and research projects aimed at clinical practice in physiotherapy and health.
• Recognise, analyse and interpret information relevant for research in physiotherapy using statistical tools.

Cross-curricular skills

• Analyse, synthesise and take reasoned decisions with a critical sense for the different actions involved in paediatric physiotherapy.
• Solve problems arising in professional practice and research.
• Plan working protocols through information searches in the scientific literature.
• Take and demonstrate responsibility for professional practice in therapeutic interventions.
• Develop sufficient autonomy to be able to participate in interdisciplinary research projects and scientific collaboration, and transfer the results.