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Pain and Pain Management (5 cr)

Code: SP10005-3010

General information


Enrollment

01.10.2024 - 26.01.2025

Timing

03.02.2025 - 16.05.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Unit

Open UAS

Campus

Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

5 - 70

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Physiotherapy

Teachers

  • Jenni Massinen
  • Noora Silvennoinen

Teacher in charge

Noora Silvennoinen

Scheduling groups

  • Avoin AMK ja RIPA (Size: 15. Open UAS: 15.)
  • Tutkinto-opiskelijat (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • TOP24_25
    Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2024-2025
  • KAKK25
    Karelia, Open UAS, All, Spring, 2025

Small groups

  • Open UAS students and RIPA
  • Degree students

Objective

Learning Outcomes;
At the end of the module, you are able to:
- encounter a pain patient in healthcare and recognize the importance of interaction
- to guide different means to manage pain beside the usual care
- describe the basics on pain physiology and how pain is experienced.

Content

- Significance of interaction and encounter in pain management
- Drug free pain management beside medicine care and usual care
- The definition of pain ja how pain is experienced
- Biopsychosocial framework
- how pain becomes chronic and chronic pain management.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected