Introduction to healthcare programming

Introduction

The aim of this course is to provide you with the knowledge and skills to design effective healthcare programmes to support client recovery.

The course page is here.

This week

This week, I just want you to get started with some readings, and exploration.

1. If you haven't already, get the text - Houglum
   
   
2. Read Rehabilitation Principles, Objectives and Goals (p. 13-17) and take notes about the key points
   
   
3. Read Basic Components of Therapeutic Exercise (p. 21-23) and take notes
   
   
4. Read Psychological Considerations (p. 23-26) and take notes
   
   
5. Visit ExRx on the web & bookmark it. Have a look around. It's an excellent resource for exercise prescription.
   
   
6. Have a look around the web to see if there are any other good sources of information on exercise prescription (if they're really good you could even consider subscribing to them in Google reader).

Next week we'll get into something a bit more meaty - the injury healing process, and how this interacts with exercise prescription.