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Pain and Pain Management (5 cr)

Code: SP10005-3003

General information


Enrollment

01.10.2022 - 15.01.2023

Timing

01.02.2023 - 21.05.2023

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 - 60

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Physiotherapy

Teachers

  • Noora Silvennoinen

Teacher in charge

Noora Silvennoinen

Scheduling groups

  • Pienryhmä (schedulingGroup) 1 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 20.)
  • Pienryhmä (schedulingGroup) 2 (Size: 10. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • KAKK23
    Karelia, Open UAS, All, Spring, 2023
  • TOP22_23
    Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2022-2023

Small groups

  • Pienryhmä (schedulingGroup) 1
  • Pienryhmä (schedulingGroup) 2

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