Excercise in health promotionLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You can design, accomplish and evaluate goal-oriented and client-specific health exercise for individuals and groups.
You can take into account the special characteristics and needs of the clients when planning and implementing health-promoting exercise.
You can cooperate in dialogue with your client.
You can design and utilize appropriate guidance material and methods for various target groups.

Content

How do you define health-promoting exercise, special exercise and adapted exercise?
How are the special characteristics and needs of the clients taken into account when planning and implementing health-promoting exercise?
What is the significance of nutrition when planning and implementing health-promoting exercise?
What are motivation levels and how do you consider them in physiotherapeutic guidance and counseling process?
How do you select appropriate methods for guiding health-promoting exercise?
How do you support and promote interaction and dialogue in guidance and counseling?

Evaluation

You can
a. use professional vocabulary systematically
b. look for information in the key information sources of the field
c. identify interrelated tasks
d. work together with customers, users and target groups
e. use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field
f. work as a team member in a goal-oriented way
g. justify your actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field

Qualifications

Attending the course requires that learning outcomes of the first year studies have been reached.

Materials

Supporting musculoskeletal functions, 5 ECTS credits
Physiotherapy interventions III, 10 ECTS credits
Clinical practice I

Curriculum2019
Supporting cardiovascular and pulmonary functions, 5 cr
Supporting activities of central and peripheral nervous system, 5 cr
Rehabilitation process and service system, 5 cr
Physiotherapy interventions III, 5 cr
Clinical practice I, 5 cr