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Elements of managerial process. Analysis of problems involving the planning, developing, organising and administering physiotherapy services. Physiotherapy department, organisation and management, principles of management, human relations, management techniques, personnel management, communications, communication concerns, and strategies for change in the workplace, financial management, legal responsibilities. Nigerian Health Care policy, environment and delivery system, Physiotherapy practice in Nigeria. Principles of management – Organisations, organograms, organisational structure for Physiotherapy practice; Personnel management theory and implications for action, place of unionism in administration, Negotiation for conflict resolution. Operations management; Facilities planning. Ethical principles applied to moral issues in health care regulatory/business ethics. Healthcare marketing. Establishment and operation of a private physiotherapy practice.

Psychiatry and psychiatric disorder, prevalence of psychiatric disorder, Pathologies of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety including panic attacks, phobias, obsessive-compulsive behaviours. psychosomatic disorders, including conversion disorder or hysterical paralysis, and hypochondriac; schizophrenia; bipolar disorder; and perseveration. Other conditions such as organic brain syndromes, neurosis, sexual disorder, transference and counter-transference will be covered., Considerations for patients receiving physiotherapy intervention in managing psychosomatic disorders and counselling, Burn out and human service profession; prevention of burnout, Psychological testing tools.

Research in physiotherapy – focus on the 21st century research. Identification of research problems. Literature search and review – peripheral and core literature, electronic search engines, importance of meta-analysis, use of literature to guide research. Research designs and sampling methods. Variables – independent & dependent. Data collection, storage and analysis and presentation. Referencing styles, Manuscript preparation for dissertation and journal publication.

Investigating a research problem. Research design and planning execution of the research design. Data collection and storage. Analysis and interpretation of the obtained data. The student reports independent research findings as a dissertation which is submitted to the Department of Physiotherapy in partial fulfilment for the award of Doctor of Physiotherapy degree of the University. The dissertation is examined with the examination externally moderated.

Seminar presentation on health care issues including but not limited to International health definitions and classifications: ICF (formally ICDH), Determinants of health and health promotion, The Nigerian health environment and policies. Individual and population health statistics, Health care for selected populations, women, children and elderly. Ethical issues in general clinical and physiotherapy practices. Public and private financing of health services and the National Health Insurance Scheme. Cancer-classification of common cancers in Nigeria. HIV/AIDS, Euthanasia.

Definitions of joint mobilisation. Physiological and accessory motions. Basic concepts of joint motion – joint shapes, sliding & rolling. Indications, goals limitations and contraindication for joint mobilisation. Procedures for applying joint mobilisation, including concave-convex rule. Specific mobilisation techniques as applied to joints in the body. Manual traction for cervical and lumbar spine. Safety considerations before mobilisations such as Vertebra-Basilar Insufficiency (VBI), revision of anatomy of VBI and tests and signs. Approaches to spinal mobilisation/manipulation including Cyriax, Mennel, Kaltenborn, Maitland, Nwuga, McKenzie techniques.