Empowerment and education for self-care, for example using the teach-back method, enable healthcare professionals and people with health concerns to talk to each other as experts in their respective fields of expertise on an equal footing. Enabling health literacy and self-discovery of intrinsic motivation for health-promoting behavior is an evidence-based approach to long-term health.
Do you work as a physiotherapist with dancers or are you interested in doing so? Are you in contact with a team around a dancer or would you like to build up a network? As part of interprofessional dance medicine, dancers, their communities and caring professions support you in adapting your physiotherapy process preventively and individually to the health concerns of the dancers you care for.
In this course you will learn via lecture, discussion, small group work, assessments and exercises ...
... person-centered communication with different age groups in the setting of dance medicine.
... screening of functional ability under consideration of different dance styles.
... to support dancers in building up their support networks.
... to provide health-promoting advice through to support as a coordinating case manager.
Finally, you can empower dancers to formulate their health concerns, identify supportive resources, seek solutions to current challenges together with their networks, plan concrete changes in behavior, structures and processes and thereby reduce potential risk factors for injury or illness.