Occupational Health and Exercise Rehabilitation

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Research, evaluate, and critically appraise the clinical exercise literature relating to the measurement and interpretation of physiological, psychological, social and lifestyle data obtained from the workplace/home environment;
2. Critically evaluate, devise, and implement clinical exercise and wellness coaching programmes and healthy lifestyle promotion appropriate for the workplace/home environment, to rehabilitate and prevent avoidable illness and injury; and when to refer to other practitioners;
3. Critically examine client cultural, environmental and socio-economic issues that might affect clinical exercise testing and prescription in the workplace;
4. Elucidate and discuss the medicinal effects of prescription/non-prescription medicine for conditions relevant to the workplace/home environment; and,
5. Research, evaluate, and critically apply skills that identify modes, frequencies, intensities, and volumes of exercise that are contraindicated for clients in the workplace/home environment with Accredited Exercise Physiology-target pathologies, from both an acute and chronic perspective.