MASTER DEGREE IN PHYSIOTHERAPY
List of topics for MSc students – The State Final Examination
Subject: SPECIAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL KINESIOLOGY
1. Clinical kinesiology and its role it in physiotherapy.
2. Biomechanical and kinesiological concepts of the motor systém.
3. The axial system – function – practical significance.
4. Extremities – function – practical significance.
5. Kinesiological positions in general and in praktice: states of relaxation – alertness – aimed
alertness.
6. Kinesiology of movement at individua levels and integration of individua segments´
function.
7. Kinesiology of soft and rough motor functions.
8. Disorders and functions of the motor systém – disturbances in the positron or movement
maintenance.
9. Analysis of the function disorder – the approach and assessment.
10. The proposal of the therapeutic treatment based on the kinesiological analysis of the
function disorder.
11. Fetal motor system. Interaction of the CNS development and motor abilities of children.
12. Development stages of a child (erect position, bipedal locomotion).
13. Sensorimotor functions and primitive reflexology.
14. Postural reactivity and ontogenesis of the supportive functions.
15. Differentiated function of muscles in the course of development.
16. The grip development and motor system of the intentional movement.
17. CP and pathological syndromes of the CNS disorders.
18. Kinesiology of posture and its relation to respiratory mechanism.
19. Kinesiology in structural changes of a degenerative, involutional, toxic, infectious,
allergic and traumatic character.
20. Kinesiology in mental disorders.
21. Kinesiology in special conditions (weightlessness, water, etc.)
22. Joint and its disorders.
23. Muscle and its disorders.
24. Nervous and mechanical information transmission in the musculoskeletal system.
25. Regional or general aspects of the joint or muscle function disorder.
Subject: REMEDIAL REHABILITATION
1. Remedia rehabilitation system.
2. Orthopaedic prosthetics.
3. Occupational therapy.
4. Adapted physical activities with respekt to the physiotherapist´s work.
5. Balneology (balneotherapeutic means, climatic treatment).
6. Laboratory diagnostic methods in remedia rehabilitation.
7. Clinical diagnostic methods in remedia rehabilitation.
8. Therapeutic methods used by a physiotherapist.
9. Physical therapy, physical medicine.
10. Vertebrovisceral relations, psychosomatic disturbances related to particular medical
branches.
Subject: HUMAN BIOMECHANICS
1. Reologic models of biomaterials.
2. Viscoelastic qualities of the bony tissue.
3. Viscoelastic qualities of the cartilage.
4. Viscoelastic qualities of the ligaments and tendons.
5. Mechanisms damaging the musculoskeletal system.
6. Biomechanics of the muscle contraction.
7. Reologic model of the muscle.
8. Hill´s curve of the muscle activity.
9. Muscular system.
10. Biomechanics of the heart action.
11. Hydromechanical characteristics of the blood stream in small and large vessels.
12. Biomechanics of the respiratory systém, impedance.
13. Joint mobility from the biomechanical point of view.
14. Actual system (biomechanical principles of the function and structure).
15. Lower extremity, biomechanical characteristics.
16. Biomechanics of gait (stepping out, walking, stopping).
17. Upper extremity, biomechanical characteristics.
18. Manipulation movements (range of movement, general mobility, regulation aspects).