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Assessment and Measurement of Health Related Fitness and Physiotherapy for Supporting the Health and Functional Ability of Clients at Different Ages (5 cr)

Code: TH00BU27-3006

General information


Enrollment

22.05.2023 - 03.09.2023

Timing

01.08.2023 - 31.12.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Health and Well-being

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

25 - 50

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Physiotherapy

Teachers

  • Iida Laine
  • Afrisa Kapella

Groups

  • PFYSIS23B
  • PFYSIS23A
  • 28.11.2023 12:30 - 16:00, Uusinta_Käytännön koe_Terveyskunnon arviointi ja mittaaminen sekä terveyskuntoa ja toimintakykyä tukeva fysioterapia eri ikäkausina TH00BU27-3006
  • 29.11.2023 10:00 - 12:00, Itsenäisen opiskelun tunnit, Terveyskunnon arviointi ja mittaaminen sekä terveyskuntoa ja toimintakykyä tukeva fysioterapia eri ikäkausina TH00BU27-3006
  • 08.12.2023 14:00 - 17:00, Teoriakoe, 1. uusintatentti, Terveyskunnon arviointi ja mittaaminen sekä terveyskuntoa ja toimintakykyä tukeva fysioterapia eri ikäkausina TH00BU27-3006
  • 13.12.2023 10:30 - 11:30, Opintojakson yhteenveto, Terveyskunnon arviointi ja mittaaminen sekä terveyskuntoa ja toimintakykyä tukeva fysioterapia eri ikäkausina TH00BU27-3006

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

H-5