A comprehensive and practical postgraduate diploma that will allow you to learn everything you need to work as a physiotherapist in early care in a realistic and direct way”

Child physiotherapists are in charge of advising, treating and caring for infants and adolescents who either suffer from or are at risk of general developmental delay and congenital or acquired movement disorders. As such, they carry out general assessments of children and their environment to establish the objectives that will help them successfully complete treatment. They are also responsible for establishing the therapeutic intervention that best suits each child's situation.

To accomplish this, professionals utilize a series of tools and techniques such as movements, exercises, breathing control, strength-building exercises, postural aids, among others, but the main techniques that will always be used are games and stimulation of movement learning. This Postgraduate Diploma provides specific and advanced knowledge of Physiotherapy in Early Care.

Throughout these months, students will acquire the knowledge required to work in Early Childhood Care, taking a deeper look into normal and pathological development in children, child pathology, assessment and treatment

Likewise, this postgraduate diploma seeks to guide physiotherapists through the functions that are carried out in Early Care, as well as to provide them with therapeutic tools and essential knowledge that is useful for professional work.

The teaching staff have extensive experience and training, both on a national and international scale, in the field of child physiotherapy, which positions this postgraduate diploma above others in the market, so graduates will have an excellent reference. Both the course director and the professors will put their knowledge and professional experience at students’ disposal in a practical manner. Therefore, this course will swiftly provide you with knowledge on all aspects related to Physiotherapy in Early Care.

A 100% online postgraduate diploma that provides students with the opportunity to study comfortably, wherever and whenever suits them best. All you need is a device with Internet access to take your career one step further. A modality in keeping with the current times and with all the guarantees to establish professionals in a highly demanded field.  

A unique opportunity to specialize and stand out in a highly in-demand sector for professionals” 

This postgraduate diploma in Physiotherapy in Early Care offers professionals the advantages of a high-level scientific, teaching, and technological program. These are some of its most notable features:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practicing experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations 
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the program

Cutting-edge education created to propel you toward greater competitiveness in the job market”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive training programmed to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the academic year. For this purpose, the professional will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.

A comprehensive program created for physiotherapy professionals, which will allow you to balance your studies with other professional responsibilities and access the course from any location with total flexibility"

Its methodological design provides students with complementary document banks to supplement the lessons"

This postgraduate diploma has been created from start to finish to be a tool for personal and professional growth for physicians by gaining deeper insight into the key aspects of medical advances in Early Care Physiotherapy. The knowledge poured into the syllabus will provide professionals with a global perspective and comprehensive training to achieve the proposed objectives. Develop the ability to establish a diagnosis by recognizing respiratory pathology for its subsequent treatment. To this end, TECH establishes a series of general and specific objectives to fulfill future graduates’ expectations.

Learn the different pathologies that require physiotherapeutic care during childhood in a simple and practical way”

General Objectives

• Facilitate specializing in Physiotherapy in Early Care
• Reinforce the importance of the role of the family
• Acquire extensive knowledge of normal and pathological development in children
• Describe the assessment and evaluation methods used in Early Childhood Physiotherapy
• Gain detailed knowledge of frequent childhood pathologies
• Recognize methods, techniques and tools used in Early Care treatments

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Normal and Pathological Child Development

• Learn about intrauterine infant development
• Gain in-depth knowledge of motor development in children 0-6 years old
• Outline the development of laterality and play in children
• Identify normal and pathological reflexes in children
• Have detailed knowledge of the cognitive and verbal development of children

Module 2. Pathologies in Childhood

• Understand the main pathologies in pediatric patients (the cause, incidence and development of disease)
• Lay out the factors (prenatal, perinatal and postnatal) that may pose a risk to normal infant development
• Identify characteristic clinical signs and warning signs
• Address key elements in therapeutic intervention

Module 3. Childhood cerebral palsy (CCP) and syndromes

• Deeply understand what cerebral palsy is, its causes and incidence
• Know how to classify the type and level of cerebral palsy
• Specialize in spasticity and its main medical treatments
• Recognize ataxia, athetosis and hypotonia
• Explain the diversity of associated problems presented by patients with CCP
• Recognize epileptic seizures and the most common types of musculoskeletal disorders
• Gain a deep understanding of what Down syndrome is and how it affects children with cerebral palsy
• Recognize other syndromes such as Prader-Willi syndrome, Rett syndrome, etc.

Highly specialized objectives in a qualification created to train the best professionals in Physiotherapy in Early Care"