309437 (v.1) Women Through Life Stages 650

Area:	School of Physiotherapy
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	Provides advanced knowledge of female growth and development relevant to physiotherapy. Includes advanced knowledge of exercise for women at different life stages. Also includes advanced knowledge of physiotherapy interventions during the childbearing year. Introduces sexual dysfunction, vaginal pain/vaginismus and vulvar vestibulitis. Also covers breast conditions including breast cancer, lymphoedema management and gynaecological conditions including vaginal prolapse. Provides for the development of advanced clinical skills in physiotherapy management post breast surgery and gynaecological surgery. Includes advanced knowledge of osteoporosis and menopausal changes and how this is relevant to physiotherapy interventions.
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Field of Education:	061701 Physiotherapy
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External