Ergonomics - PFYZ176C

• Title: Ergonomie
• Guaranteed by: Fyzioterapie (51-500400)
• Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
• Actual: from 2021 to 2021
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 1
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/1, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 1 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / 16 (16)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: deregister from the credit exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled; course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D.
• Classification: Sport and Physical Education > Biomedicine Subjects

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (26.10.2019)

The aim of the course is to acquire basic knowledge of ergonomics as a field of study, but mainly of ergonomic aspects important for the performance of the medical profession. Practical training is aimed at acquiring skills that can be applied both to the exercise of the profession of a physiotherapist with respect to himself and to the mentoring of patients and family members. Ergonomics is an inter-disciplinary branch dealing with the position of an individual in both the occupational and extra occupational areas and with health protection, mainly in working conditions. Information of ergonomics elementals and special problems of rehabilitation ergonomics, or solutions of occupational and extra occupational conditions of handicapped people.

Aim of the course

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (19.09.2020)

Learning Outcomes:

The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge, skills and general competencies so that after the completion of the course the students:

• demonstrate a basic understanding of ergonomics as an interdisciplinary field, important for the performance of the medical profession

• demonstrate the ability to evaluate working and non-working conditions in relation to the risks of damage to the locomotor system

• demonstrate the ability to recommend basic modifications of the workplace from the ergonomics point of view and in relation to the prevention of damage to the locomotor system

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (26.10.2019)

CARAYON, P. Handbook of human factors and ergonomics in health care and patient safety. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2012. ISBN 9781439830338.

SHORROCK, S., WILLIAMS, C. Human factors and ergonomics in practice: Improving system performance and human well-being in the real world. CRC Press, 2016.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: PhDr. Ivana Vláčilová, Ph.D. (17.02.2024)

Credit Requirements:
- elaboration of seminar work and its presentation

- 100% attandance on practical lectures

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Helena Vomáčková, Ph.D. (26.10.2019)

1. Ergonomics, ergonomic counseling, ergonomics in work of physiotherapist - definition of terms

2. Analysis of selected activities from the perspective of ergonomics

3. Working place - analysis, possibilities of adjustment

4. Standing, sitting - analysis, adjustment or compensation

5. Computer-related activities - analysis, adjustment or compensation

6. Load handling - analysis, principles of correct implementation

7. Ergonomic aspects of work from so-called congestion and possibilities of prevention

8. Motion mode, compensation, preventive programs

9. Ergonomic principles for physiotherapist work

10. RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) - Repetitive strain disability

11. Working with computer - ergonomic aspects with main focus on working place arrangement

12. Hand, its functions and ergonomic aspects

13. Stress, fatigue and working conditions

14. Ergonomics of driving - possible problems and prevention, compensation

Learning resources

Last update: Renáta Jandová (27.07.2023)

Study Aids:


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