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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

  • FYS24
    Bachelor 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