Basics of manual therapy and therapeutic exercise (6 cr)
Code: BB00DL47-3002
General information
Enrollment
11.11.2024 - 13.01.2025
Timing
03.01.2025 - 23.05.2025
Credits
6 op
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Health Care, Physiotherapy
Teachers
- Riku Uusi-Jaakkola
- Jutta Potila
Student groups
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FYS24Bachelor of Health Care, Physiotherapy
Objective
The student can:
- Identify manual therapy methods
- Understand how manual therapy affects the human body
- Use different manual therapy methods in practice
- Understand the basics of therapeutic exercise
- Can plan and implement progressive therapeutic exercise program in practice
Content
Content:
- Massage , mobilization, manipulation, fascia-methods, trigger-point treatment
- Physiology of exercise, training progression, motor learning
Evaluation scale
1-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
The student
- Can name different manual therapy methods and, to some extent, explain how they affect the human body
- Understands the contraindications of manual therapy and knows to some extent when manual therapy can be used in physiotherapy
- Knows how to use manual therapy methods in practice
- Understands some basics of therapeutic exercise and knows how to use therapeutic exercises in physiotherapy in practice
Assessment criteria, good (3)
The student
- Can partially name different manual therapy methods and explain how they affect the human body
- Partially understands contraindications of manual therapy and knows when manual therapy can be used in physiotherapy
- Partially knows how to use manual therapy methods in practice
- Partially understands the basics of therapeutic exercise and knows partially how to use therapeutic exercises in physiotherapy in practice
Assessment criteria, excellent (5)
The student
- Can name different manual therapy methods and explain how they affect the human body
- Understand the contraindications of manual therapy and knows when manual therapy can be used in physiotherapy
- Knows how to use manual therapy methods in practice
- Understand the basics of therapeutic exercise and knows how to use therapeutic exercises in physiotherapy in practice