Learning Outcomes
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
1. account for and evaluate different ways of categorizing pain in relation to the current state of research and be able to account for nociception, biopsychosocial mechanisms for physiotherapeutic pain treatment, pain modulation and the experience of pain from a biopsychosocial perspective
2. account for the development of long-term pain conditions
3. account for and discuss commonly occurring concepts/theories/models/frameworks in physiotherapy and be able to reflect on their significance for clinical practice
4. account for commonly occurring scientific concepts and methods, and be able to apply this knowledge by reviewing scientific literature in the field of pain
5. independently search, evaluate, interpret and synthesize scientific publications within a chosen area of ??specialization related to acute or long-term pain
6. analyze and discuss the connection between chosen area of specialization and social, economic, and ecological sustainable development.
Course Content
The course includes a biopsychosocial perspective on the pain experience and an introduction to scientific concepts and methods for searching, evaluating, interpreting and synthesizing a limited number of scientific publications in the field of pain. The course includes an individual in-depth study of the field of pain and an introduction to social, economic and ecological sustainable development and physiotherapy’s connection to this.
Assessment
- Written examination task
- Oral examination
Grades
The grading scale used for the final course grade is U–G.
Grades are reported as follows:
- Acute and chronic pain - 3 Credits | U–G
- Scienfific method, and theories, models and framworks in physiotherapy - 5 Credits | U–G
- Individual assignment in physiotherapy, pain, and sustainable development - 7 Credits | U–G
Entry Requirements
- 60 credits in Physiotherapy or Caring Science, including 15 credits in Anatomy and Physiology
Other Information
This course cannot be counted towards the same degree along with courses that have equivalent content.
If the student has received a decision/recommendation granting study support from Dalarna University because of a disability, then the examiner has the right to offer an alternative examination arrangement. The examiner takes into account the objectives in the course syllabus when deciding whether the examination can be adapted in accordance with the decision/recommendation.