Aim and Content

Main content:

Upon successful completion of movement science, students should be able to describe motor control, motor development and motor learning as a basis for improving nevro-muscular control and development in treatment of patients.

In exercise physiology and methodology, students should be able to describe adaptation to different physical activities and describe the individual limitation of physical capacity.

Contents:

Movement science consists of a series of lectures on models of motor control and motor learning. Exercise methodology includes physiological adaptation to strength, endurance and flexibility training and how the training should be planned and implemented for optimal effect, mainly for patients with musculoskeletal disorders.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the movement science part of the course, the students should to be able to define, describe and discuss

- motor control

- hierarchical models

- motor program

- subdivide movements into categories

- system theories

- dynamic system theories

- motor learning

- phases of learning

- plasticity in learning

- feedback in the learning situation

- transfer of learning

- organizing the learning situation

Students will be able to account for the impact these models. The student should be able to account for therapeutic implications of different models of motor control and learning.

After completing the exercise methodology part of the course, the students should be able to define, describe and discuss

- endurance, strength and flexibility training

- changes that occur after endurance, strength and flexibility training

- leading causes of fatigue

- training methods recommended used to develop strength, flexibility (dynamic and static) and endurance

- principle that provided the basis for the training of stability

- central training principle: specificity, progression, variability and reversibility, and apply these principles in the development and implementation of training programs through the use of "SMART rules" (smart, measurable, ambitious, realistic, time)

- changes made to joint and muscle forces by different starting positions in strength training

- symptoms that occur when doing incorrect training or "over training"

- special measures that apply for patients with musculoskeletal dysfunctions, as well as account for dysfunctions that may occur from incorrect training

- preventive effect of training related to heart and vascular disease, metabolic diseases and back disorders.

Course offered (semester)

Fall (second semester) and spring (third semester)

Course Unit Level

Master

Pre-requirements

Pre-requirements are biomechanical knowledge (torque calculation). Recommended readings are provided prior to start of the study.

Teaching Methods

30 h lectures and group work, as well as self-study

Compulsory Requirements

Lectures and teamwork are mandatory

Assessment methods

A written home exam of 5 days.

Internal and external examiner

Grading Scale

Grading scale A (Excellent) - F (fail)

Reading List

Overview of relevant books, book chapters and articles are put on the reading list.

Course Unit Evaluation

Questionnaire filled in by the students on the "student portal" or otherwise described. The results of the evaluation are annually reviewed by the teachers.