Sports medicine and nutrition (5 cr)
Code: NA00DH46-3005
General information
- Enrollment
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06.11.2023 - 17.11.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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01.01.2024 - 30.04.2024
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Department of Health Care and Emergency Care
- Campus
- Kotka Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Naprapathy
Objective
You learn about the most common sports injuries.
You understand and know how to explain the risk factors of exercise and sports injury, mechanisms, healing processes, and know the principles of prevention of injuries.
You learn about athletes' nutrition recommendations and how nutrition can affect physical performance and development.
Content
What are the most common types of sports injuries?
What are the healing processes of sports injuries?
How can sport injuries be rehabilitated and prevented?
How do sport injuries affect the athlete's performance?
How does the athlete's nutrition affect physical performance?
Evaluation
Students 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 team members in a goal-oriented way.
g. justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.
Evaluation scale
1-5
Qualifications
Anatomy
Physiology
Diagnostics in naprapathyI