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Pain and Pain Management (5 cr)

Code: SP10005-3004

General information


Enrollment

01.04.2022 - 04.09.2022

Timing

22.08.2022 - 15.12.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Unit

Fysioterapeuttikoulutus (SF)

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

Groups

  • TOP22_23
    Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2022-2023

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