Health promotion in OsteopathyLaajuus (5 ECTS)

Objective

Students are able to provide their clients education on nutrition supporting healthy lifestyle. They are familiar with the current nutritional recommendations and the current care recommendations on various illnesses in relation to nutrition as well as the national and international recommendations and their background. Students are able to give constructive, effective and realistic advice to individual patients to support their healthy lifestyle. To a significant extent, students are thus able to support the health obtained by osteopathic treatment with their advice.
Students are able to describe the human energy consumption in various exertion situations. They know how to explain the health effects of physical exercise and justify the significance of exercise to the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of illnesses. Students are able to provide education and guidance on physical exercise to prevent and treat illnesses.

Content

Nutrition of the elderly and working age people, nutrition during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Nutritional guidance and care of people suffering from the following symptoms and illnesses: reflux disease, constipation, gastric ulcer, postsurgical gastrointestinal condition, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis, cancer, diabetes, gout, rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis and other infections. Eating disorders. Food allergies. Acid-base balance and its effect on body tissues, anti-inflammatory nutrition. National and international nutritional recommendations and their background.
Significance of physical exercise during different phases of life. Physical capacity and factors explaining it. Changes in physical capacity because of ageing. Physical exercise and illnesses. Measures of precaution for doing sports. Significance and effects of physical exercise during different phases of life. National health exercise recommendations.

Qualifications

Organ Structure and Function

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students use the appropriate core concepts as well as make choices using the knowledge base of their own professional field. They recognise the prerequisites and consequences of their own actions.
Students act according to the rules and instructions given, and they use working methods appropriately and safely.
Students work according to the professional ethics of their own field, and they act responsibly as group members.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students analyse the relationships between appropriate core concepts as well as justify their choices using the knowledge base of their own professional field. They analyse the prerequisites and consequences of their own actions.
Students act according to the rules and instructions given in their operating environment, and they use working methods appropriately and safely.
Students work according to the professional ethics of their own field, and they act flexibly as group members.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students analyse and assess the relationships between appropriate core concepts as well as make choices using the knowledge base of their own professional field. They assess the prerequisites and consequences of their own actions.
Students act initiatively and goal-orientedly in diverse operating environments, and they apply working methods appropriately and safely.
Students work according to professional ethics in varied situations, and their functioning enhances group activities.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Students use the appropriate core concepts as well as make choices using the knowledge base of their own professional field. They recognise the prerequisites and consequences of their own actions.
Students act according to the rules and instructions given, and they use working methods appropriately and safely.
Students work according to the professional ethics of their own field, and they act responsibly as group members.