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Assessment and Measurement In Clinical Work (2 cr)

Code: TH00BU28-3001

General information


Enrollment

12.02.2021 - 31.03.2021

Timing

12.02.2021 - 30.07.2021

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Health and Well-being

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 50

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Physiotherapy

Teachers

  • Anu Granberg
  • Afrisa Kapella

Groups

  • PFYSIS20B
    PFYSIS20B
  • PFYSIS20
  • PFYSIS20A
    PFYSIS20A

Objective

The student is able to
• explain the means of physiotherapeutic examination and the factors affecting their reliable use,
• explain the phenomena of muscle strength, aerobic condition, flexibility and elasticity,
• name factors affecting on muscle strength, aerobic condition, flexibility and elasticity,
• examine muscle strength, aerobic condition and elasticity reliably from the health point of view as well as draw up conclusions and form goals based on examination,
• apply the principles of exercising muscle strength, aerobic condition and elasticity for promoting well-being and health taking into account clients’ resources,
• indentify the significance of client’s recovery as a part of exercising health related condition.

Content

Examination and documentation in physiotherapy: observation, interviewing, palpation and measurement, principles of reliable measurement and testing, factors affecting realibility

Muscle strength and its subareas, the principles of measuring and exercising muscle strength, RM, the principles of measuring and exercising muscle elasticity, the principles of measuring and exercising aerobic condition.

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty