Sports Science / Medical Training Therapy
"Sports therapy is a therapeutic movement activity that with suitable means of sport, compensates and regenerates impaired physical, psychological and social functions, it prevents secondary damage and promotes healthly behaviour". (Excerpt from HUBER, SCHÜLE, 2000, Grundlagen der Sporttherapie, Urban & Fischer Verlag, München).
"Medical training therapy is the use of physical training in healthy individuals or patients in the course of medical preventive or rehabilitative treatment on medical recommendation and prescription, with clear indications, for the achievement of defined therapy objectives". (HABER, TOMASITS, 2006, Medizinischer Trainingstherapie, Anleitung für die Praxis. Springer Verlag, Wien).
Department organisation and responsibility areas
- Initial examination with basic diagnosis
- Survey of the treatment objectives of the patient
- Creation of an individual therapy/ training plan
- Interdisciplinary coordination and determination of treatment objectives
- Implementation and training management of the therapy units according to the principles of training science
- Documentation and evaluation of training sessions
- Lectures
- Sport scientific advice
- Final report and recommendations
- Interdisciplinary meetings for possible adaptation of the therapy sessions and treatment plans
- Team meetings and team building, supervision
- Implementation and publication of scientific studies
- Internal and external training
- Congress participation nationally and internationally