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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
FTR 4022	EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION AND HEALTH PROMATION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	2

Offered By

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR NURSEN ILÇIN

Offered to

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Course Objective

Students will develop their skills in prescribing and delivering exercise programs to promote health and fitness for those within the community with specific needs. Students will learn the educative and health promotion role of the physiotherapist in promoting safe participation in exercise in the community for all people across the lifespan. They will explore the evidence available for the effectiveness of exercise programs in the community.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Knows prescribing exercise programs to promote health and fitness for those within the community with specific needs.
2	Explains delivering exercise classes to promote health and fitness for those within the community with specific needs.
3	Knows educative and health promotion role of the physiotherapist in promoting safe participation in exercise in the community for all people across the lifespan.
4	Explores and interprets the evidence available for the effectiveness of exercise programs in the community.
5	Synthesises the collected informations and performs verbal and visual presentations about his results.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Determination of the contents, syllabus, class presentations
2	History of Therapeutic exercise
3	Effects of Exercise on organ systems
4	Foundations of Therapeutic exercise Classification and Prescription
5	Exercise testing and Exercise Prescription for Cardiorespiratory Fitness
6	Exercise Prescription for Muscular Strength, Flexibility and Weight Loss
7	Exercise for Spine, Posture and Computer injury
8	Prevention of Athletic Injury
9	Exercise Prescription for Neurologic Disorders
10	Exercise, Exercise adherence and Technology
11	Exercise Prescription for Other Special Cases (Older Adult, Heart Disease, Peripheral Arterial Disease, Hypertension)
12	Exercise Prescription for Other Special Cases (Pregnancy, Children, Arthritis, Amputee)
13	Exercise Prescription for Other Special Cases (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Neuromuscular disease, Repetetive Motion Disorders)
14	Exercise Prescription for Other Special Cases (Diabetes Mellitus, Renal failure, Multiple chronic disease, Postmenopausal women) - Mid-term exam (Delivering the Presentations to the instructor)
15	Discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): David P. Swain, Brian C. Leutholtz. Exercise Prescription-2nd Edition : A Case
Study Approach to the ACSM Guidelines, 2007. Human kinetics, Champaign. ISBN:
0736066802, ISBN13:9780736066808.

Supplementary Book(s):
Kamala Shankar. Exercise prescription, 1998. Hanley&Belfus inc/Philadelphia. ISBN:
1560532580, ISBN13: 9781560532583

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Conferance, presentation, problem based learning

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Sevgi Sevi Yeşilyaprak
DEÜ FTR YO

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	14	2	28
Preparation before/after weekly lectures	14	1	14
Preparation for Final Exam	1	2	2
Preparing Presentations	3	5	15
Final	1	2	2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			61

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12
LO.1	1		1	1	1	1	1		1		1
LO.2	1		1	1	1	1	1		1		1
LO.3		1	1					1		1	1
LO.4				1			1		1	1
LO.5	1							1		1

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Mode of Delivery

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Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

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Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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