Course Title: Exercise Rehabilitation for Chronic and Complex Conditions

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Exercise Rehabilitation for Chronic and Complex Conditions

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

OHTH2117

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

160H Medical Sciences

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2006,
Sem 2 2007,
Sem 2 2008,
Sem 2 2009,
Sem 2 2010,
Sem 2 2011,
Sem 2 2013,
Sem 2 2014,
Sem 2 2015,
Sem 2 2016

OHTH2117

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

 Sem 2 2018,
Sem 2 2019,
Sem 2 2020,
Sem 2 2021,
Sem 2 2022

Course Coordinator: Stephen Bird

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7257

Course Coordinator Email: stephen.bird@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 202.04.019


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses

Successful completion of:

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.

For information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage.


Course Description

This course introduces basic knowledge and understanding of how exercise can be used as a therapeutic modality for treating people with chronic or complex conditions, such as chronic musculoskeletal conditions, neurological conditions, respiratory disease, risk factors for cardiovascular disease along with cardiovascular disease.

Laboratory sessions will allow you to practice concepts taught in lectures and apply theoretical knowledge to a range of conditions through the use of case studies and working with and prescribing exercise to fellow students. The group assignment and presentation will allow students to apply their theoretical knowledge to a specific health condition and have their presentation and prescription instructional skills assessed.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes for BP296, Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise and Sports Science):

  • Apply knowledge of the underlying principles and concepts of Exercise and Sport Science.  Including the core areas of: Human Physiology, Anatomy, Functional Anatomy, Exercise Physiology, Biomechanics, Motor Learning and Control, Exercise Metabolism and Nutrition, and Psychology (PLO 1).
  • Review, analyse and interpret information, and independently generate conclusions (PLO 3).
  • Communicate knowledge through a variety of modalities (PLO4).
  • Assess exercise clients using valid and reliable methods, and generate reports in an appropriate format (PLO 5).
  • Identify exercise needs of a person/team and design appropriate exercise interventions (PLO6).
  • Contextualise discipline knowledge to performance sports and / or health, disease and ageing (PLO 7).
  • Knowledge and ability to work within the legal, ethical, practice and safety codes of the profession (PLO 8).


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Correctly identify the exercise needs of individuals with chronic or complex health conditions.
  2. Use scientific and medical equipment to monitor and assess exercise, before analysing and interpreting the information to independently generate conclusions.
  3. Evaluate the acute and chronic effects that exercise may have on a number of chronic and complex health conditions.
  4. Confidently deliver exercises suitable to each health condition and communicate the outcomes appropriately to a range of individuals.
  5. Demonstrate a knowledge of and ability to work within the scope of legal, ethical, and safe practice pertaining to exercise professionals. 


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, practicals, laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery may be face to face, online or a mix of both.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course.

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.


Overview of Assessment

This course contains hurdle requirements. All hurdle requirements for this course are indicated clearly in the assessment regime that follows, against the relevant assessment task(s) and all have been approved by the College Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1: Major assignment
Weighting 50%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 3 & 5

Assessment Task 2: Presentation
Weighting 10%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 3 & 5

Assessment Task 3: Take-home summative assessment
Weighting 40%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 3 & 5

Assessment Task 4: Practical competency test (Hurdle)

  1. Practical competency test. Any student failing the competency test at the first attempt will be provided with a second opportunity to pass the competency test. A second failure will result in a failure of the course).
  2. In order to pass the course, you are required to attend and actively participate in all of 80% of laboratory practical sessions.

This assessment task supports CLOs 2 & 4

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.