Project Outcomes

Project Outcome 1: Innovative Course curricula
The project aims the analysis of the specific training needs of potential users in order to focus on the most important needs of professional development of physiotherapists. A questionnaire will be prepared and will be applied to physiotherapists.  By this questionnaire, the most commonly used parameters of the current (such as type, frequency, duration, etc.) will be determined.

Project Results 2: Interactive open access education modules
The open access course module will be developed with regarding the information that is going to be obtained from project results 1.  This open access course modules can also be used as a clinical key for electrical stimulation in physiotherapy and rehabilitation. In the project, 5 open access modules will be prepared.  

Module 1: healthy and denervated muscles physiology
Module 2: currents used for electrical stimulation approaches
Module 3: electrical stimulation for healthy muscles
Module 4: electrical stimulation for de-innervated muscles
Module 5: electrical stimulation for re-innervated muscles.

The training modules will be consist of working sessions (which are estimated as 2 to 3 hours for each). A validation process will take place through pilot courses with contribution of professional users and experts. The pilot course will be applied to approximately 30 physiotherapists from each country. The implementation of the pilot course will take place in the online learning platform. After the completion of the project, the training course will be made available in four countries (in their respective languages): Türkiye, Romania, Lithuania and Estonia. The complete course will be also in English.

All modules will be prepared in English. Each partner is going to be responsible in translation of the course modules it their native language. As the process of the translation to native languages completed, the pilot testing will be applied to at least 10 PTs from each country in order to get the feedbacks (comments, suggestions, recommendations etc) from the PTs.

Project Results 3: Development of Guide Book of Course Modules

The guidebook of open access course will be developed with regarding the information that is going to be obtained from O1 and literature. The learning material will be structured according to a competency based learning approach. Each partner will translate it their native language.