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Pain physiology and pharmacology (5 cr)

Code: NA00ED75-3002

General information


Enrollment

04.11.2024 - 17.11.2024

Timing

06.01.2025 - 31.05.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Department of Health Care and Emergency Care

Campus

Kotka Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Naprapathy

Teachers

  • Naprapaatti Virtuaali
  • Niko Leinonen

Teacher in charge

Marja Turkki

Groups

  • NAKT22SP
    Naprapathy, full-time studies
  • 05.02.2025 09:00 - 15:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002
  • 06.02.2025 09:00 - 15:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002
  • 19.02.2025 13:00 - 15:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002
  • 20.02.2025 08:15 - 15:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002
  • 07.04.2025 12:00 - 16:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002
  • 10.04.2025 13:00 - 16:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002
  • 11.04.2025 09:00 - 15:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002
  • 17.04.2025 08:00 - 14:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002
  • 28.04.2025 10:00 - 16:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002
  • 06.05.2025 08:15 - 15:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002
  • 07.05.2025 08:15 - 15:00, Kipufysiologia ja farmakologia NA00ED75-3002

Objective

You learn different mechanisms of pain in different structures of the body.

You can evaluate pain in diagnosing a patient.

You know how pain can be treated generally, and in manual therapy.

You know the most common medical treatment practices for basic diseases, medicines and their mechanisms of action.

You know the most common medical treatment practices for musculoskeletal diseases, medicines and their mechanisms of action.

You know the most common analgesis and their mechanisms of action.
You know the most common pain treatment methods.

Content

How does the sensation of pain develop?

How is pain classified?

How can pain be alleviated?

What are non-medicated pain treatments?

How do different medicines work?

Evaluation scale

1-5