Assessment and Measurement In Clinical Work (2 cr)
Code: TH00BX58-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 07.07.2020 - 05.08.2020
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 06.08.2020 - 31.12.2020
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 2 cr
- Local portion
- 2 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Health and Well-being
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Physiotherapy
- Teachers
- Satu Takala
- Pirjo Pennanen
- Course
- TH00BX58
Evaluation scale
H-5
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.