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Sports physiotherapy: sport performance analysis and supporting the physical performance of athlete (5 cr)

Code: BB00DL54-3001

General information


Enrollment

14.08.2023 - 06.09.2023

Timing

18.09.2023 - 31.12.2023

Credits

5 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Bachelor of Health Care, Physiotherapy

Teachers

  • Maija Hiltunen
  • Jutta Potila

Student groups

  • VVO

Objective

The student

- Understands the basics of exercise physiology as part of the sport-specific training of the athlete
- Can explain the basics of motor learning in learning and teaching skills
- Can accurately classify physical requirements and load factors in different sports
- Can choose suitable sport-specific methods for measuring and testing an athlete's physical performance
- Can implement a sport performance analysis and thus choose and plan appropriate ways to support the athlete's physical performance

Content

- Exercise physiology
- Motor learning
- Physical requirements and load factors for different sports
- Measurement and testing of the physical performance of the athlete
- Sport performance analysis, supporting the physical performance of the athlete

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student

- can recognize the basics of exercise physiology as part of the athlete's sport-specific training
- can incompletely explain the basics of motor learning in learning and teaching skills
- is not able to classify physical requirements and load factors for different sports
- can recognize sport-specific methods for measuring and testing the physical performance of an athlete
- can implement a sport performance analysis with guidance and needs support in choosing and planning appropriate ways to support the athlete's physical performance

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student

- Partially understands the basics of exercise physiology as part of the athlete's sport-specific training
- Can explain the basics of motor learning in learning and teaching skills
- Can partially classify physical requirements and load factors for different sports
- Can to some extent choose sport-specific methods for measuring and testing the athlete's physical performance
- Can implement a sport performance analysis and choose and plan ways to support the athlete's physical performance

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student

- Can recognize the basics of exercise physiology as part of the sport-specific training of the athlete
- Can explain the basics of motor learning in learning and teaching skills in a comprehensive way
- Can accurately classify physical requirements and load factors for different sports
- Can choose sport-specific methods for measuring and testing the physical performance of an athlete
- Can implement a sport performance analysis and thus choose and plan the ways to support the athlete's physical performance