Predmet: 24-urno gibalno vedenje in zdravje

Course title: 24-hour movement behaviours and health

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Assist. Prof. Kaja Kastelic

Content: The objective of the course is to understand co-dependence of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep (i.e., movement behaviours) and their importance for health. Students will gain knowledge about the relationship between movement behaviours and health, methods for assessment of movement behaviours, factors that influence movement behaviours, and principles of designing interventions for influencing movement behaviours. They will gain knowledge about public health 24-hour movement guidelines for different age groups, and other strategic documents for supporting healthy 24-hour movement behaviours. Students will develop abilities and knowledge necessary for critical interpretation of epidemiological studies, and for design and evaluation of interventions for supporting healthy 24-hour movement behaviours among different populations.

Predmet: Možgani in prehranjevanje

Course title: Brain and nutrition

ECTS: 3

Lecturer:  Assoc. Prof. Nina Mohorko

Content: The course explores bidirectional impact of brain and nutrition. The students learn about the metabolic requirements of the brain and learn about the role of the brain in controlling the food intake through three mechanisms: circadian rhythms, homeostatic control and reward system. Brain is also central in analysing food through flavour, which is a complex perception composed of the information of all senses, information from the gastrointestinal system and adipose tissue and our previous knowledge. On the other hand, nutrition impacts brain health – we discuss healthy and unhealthy nutritional patterns and foods and food constituents.

Predmet: Šport za sprostitev

Course title: Sports for relaxation

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Assist. Prof. Urška Čeklič

Content: In the course, participants will acquire knowledge of preparing and organising lessons in selected subjects in the elementary school. Participants will be able to define a specific environment and adapt exercises according to the chosen sport. The selected sports, such as yoga, Nordic walking, cycling, etc., have a recreational character. The participants will learn the basics for organising a lesson in these sports and recognise the specifics. Furthermore, they will be able to critically evaluate their work and the work of individuals involved in the process. 

Predmet: Alternativni načini prehrane II

Course title: Alternative manners of nutrition II

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Tadeja Jakus, PhD

Content:  Alternative diets are becoming increasingly popular among people, but little is known about their effects on health. In the course students will learn more about the effects of fasting on health. How can a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet affect our health, can it help with diabetes, mental health or drug-resistant epilepsy? How can we plan a well-balanced vegan diet for an athlete, avoiding nutrient deficiencies? Do alternative food sources such as artificial sweeteners and alternative protein sources affect our health? We will discuss popular alternative diets and try to explain their use and their impact on our health and well-being. 

Predmet: Integrativne metode podpornega zdravljenja

Course title: Integrative methods of supportive treatment

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. David Ravnik

Content: The focus of the course is primarily on the theoretical starting points of the relationship between health and quality of life from the point of view of unconventional therapeutic approaches. The student also becomes familiar with the theory and practice of therapeutic approaches in different cultures and their integration and upgrading with conventional therapeutic approaches. Knowing this can enrich the treatment of patient problems while ensuring safety and following evidence-based practice.

Predmet: Edukacija in komunikacija na področju zdravstvenih ved

Course title: Health education and communication

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Sabina Ličen

Content: By the end of the course, students will understand the characteristics and laws of education and the process of education in healthcare. They will be able to design, plan and organise a health education programme and prepare, implement, analyse, evaluate and improve a health education programme. In addition, students will be able to communicate effectively within a healthcare team and understand the interplay of factors that influence successful communication. In their work, students will be able to apply assertive communication. 

Predmet: Upravljanje projektov

Course title: Project management

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Klemen Širok

Content: In the Project Management course, students learn the basic terminology in the field of project management. They learn about publicly available information on public tenders, funding sources and potential project partners, and become familiar with the basic procedures, principles and tools for preparing, managing and controlling projects. Their competences are developed through the preparation of a project proposal, which runs in parallel with the lectures.

Predmet: Izbrane vsebine iz uporabe informacijsko komunikacijskie tehnologije (IKT) v zdravstvu

Course title: The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in healthcare – selected contents

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Prof. Boštjan Žvanut

Content: In the course »The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in healthcare – selected contents«, participants will acquire knowledge and skills required in today’s healthcare environment, where the use of ICT has become indispensable. In this course, we will discuss the use of ICT in healthcare and conduct hands-on seminars on the use of ICT for teamwork, ICT-based assistive technologies and their use in health/social care, and website development tools. Students will be required to complete a practical project assignment using the aforementioned technologies and present it to their peers.

Predmet: Raziskovalni projekt

Course title: Research project

ECTS: 6

Lecturer: mentor

*only available to participants who register for the entire module

Predmet: Celoviti pristopi v tekmovalnem športu

Course title: Comprehensive approach in elite sports training

ECTS: 6

Lecturer: Assist. Prof. Tim Podlogar

Content: 

1. The conceptual model of top-level sport:
• Psychological aspect;
• Sociological aspect;
• Burnout in sport;
• An interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to top-level sport;
• A holistic approach to regeneration.

2. Monitoring the training process:
• Research tools;
• Physiology of training load;
• Quantifying the training load;
• Current practice and tools;
• Guidelines for individual sports;
• Guidelines for team sports;

3. Competition – individual sports:
• Choosing the appropriate pace for optimal performance at the competition;
• Determination of intensity zones using advanced power / speed meters;
• Analyzing the competition performance.

4. Overtraining:
• Identifying overtraining and measuring approaches;
• Prevention of overtraining.

5. Recovery:
• Conceptual model;
• ‘Total fitness’ model;
• Qualitative measures for monitoring recovery;
• Quantitative measures for monitoring recovery;
• Integration of techniques to accelerate recovery into the training process.

6. Regeneration techniques:
• Physical and biological background of different methods;
• Getting to know the main methods;
• Active recovery;
• Stretching;
• Contrast thermotherapy and cryotherapy;
• Hyperbaric, hyperbaric bag.

7. Nutrition and nutritional supplements:
• Interaction of nutrition strategies and training process;
• Nutrition for specific goals and contents of exercise;
• Food supplements and their use in regeneration.

8. Sports equipment
• Choice of competition equipment and interaction with sponsors;
• The importance of a support team for ensuring undisturbed training.

Predmet: Didaktika atletike

Course title: Didactics in track and field

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Jernej Rošker

Content:

1. Movement techniques of individual track and field disciplines:
• Sprint and rely
• Endurance running
• High jump
• Long jump
• Shot put
• Ball throw

2. Basic rules in track and field:
• Sprint and rely
• Endurance running
• High jump
• Long jump
• Shot put
• Ball throw

3. Methods for teaching techniques in individual athletic disciplines:
• Sprint and rely
• Endurance running
• High jump
• Long jump
• Shot put
• Ball throw

4. Familiarization with basic factors influencing performance in track and field disciplines with understanding the importance of adjusting the training intensity.

Predmet: Vodenje programov športa otrok in mladine

Course title: Management of sport programs for children and youth

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Assist. Prof. Milan Hosta

Content:

1. Definition of contents of sports interest programs:
• The placement of sports interest programs in the school system,
• Importance of implementing sports interest programs,
• Objectives of sports interest programs,
• Possibilities of additional sports offer at school,
• Financing of additional sports offer,
• Project Calls and Conditions.

2. Project planning, management and project management in a school setting:
• Sports life in school,
• Connecting to the environment (societies, clubs, parents, health care organizations),
• School Sports Association.

3. Implementation of sports content projects:
• Activities at the Centers for Ourdoor School Activities,
• Sports Day,
• Outdoor School,
• Conducting a swimming course,
• School sports competitions,
• Sports events (eg school day),
• Motor / sports activities in other projects.

4. Interest programs for sport of children and youth:
• Small and golden sun,
• Krpan,
• Let’s learn how to swim,
• Hurray, free time,
• Healthy lifestyle,
• Youth for young people.

5. Promoting a healthy lifestyle.

6. International cooperation and programs (Erasmus + Sport, Cmepius programs, International camps and competitions…).

Predmet: Obravnava mišično-skeletnih težav v obdobju rasti in staranja

Course title: Treatment of musculosceletal problems during growth an ageing

ECTS: 6

Lecturer: Prof. Nejc Šarabon

Content:

1. Brief overview of the characteristics of musculoskeletal system development and other systems of the body through lifespan.

2. Integral treatment of postural control and stability disorders:

• Biomechanical foundations, characteristics and control of posture through the lifespan,
• Development of mechanisms for postural control,
• Ageing and decline in quality of the postural control,
• Integral treatment of children with postural disorders,
• Treatment of patients of different ages with neurologic injuries that affect postural control,
• Integral treatment for preservation of stability and balance in the elderly.

3. Integral treatment for improvement or preservation of mobility and general movement function:

• Biomechanical foundations, development characteristics and control of movements through the lifespan,
• Development of reflexes and fundamental movement patterns in different stages of growth,
• Ageing-associated decline in movement function,
• Integral treatment of patients with different mobility impairments at different ages,
• Integral treatment of elderly patients with mobility limitations and impaired function,
• Integral treatment of issues with upper limb function and fine motor skills in different stages of lifespan and growth.

4. Motor learning in different stages of life:

• Fundamental principles of motor learning,
• The role of motor learning in treatment of patients of different ages,
• Teaching the appropriate movement techniques,
• Re-learning the functional movement patterns after injuries of musculoskeletal or nervous system. 

5. Integral treatment of individual neurological and musculoskeletal problems in different stages of life:

• Adapting the treatment based on the time of the diseases occurrence,
• Adapting the treatment based on the diseases progression and severity.

Predmet: Ročna limfna drenaža

Course title: Manual lymph drainage

ECTS: 3

Lecturer:Assoc. Prof. David Ravnik, Ph. D.

Content: 

1. General information on Manual Lymph Drainage, its historical development and general characteristics.

2. Anatomy and physiology of the lymphatic vascular system:

• The lymphatic vascular system and lymph nodes
• Lymph and the lymph obligatory load
• Lymphatic pathways
• Lymphatic pathways of the lower extremities
• Lymphatic pathways of the upper extremities
• Other lymphatic pathways
• Functions of the lymphatic system
• The Starling equilibrium
• Basic division of edema:
• Dynamic edema
• Lymphostatic edema

3. Indications and contraindications for Manual Lymph Drainage.

4. Creating the environment for optimal treatment and the basic principles of performing Manual Lymph Drainage in patients with mild, medically uncomplicated lower and upper extremity edema.

5. Basic Manual Lymph Drainage techniques

6. Treatment of individual body parts:

• The neck
• The lower extremities
• The upper extremities

7. Examples of using Manual Lymph Drainage in patients with mild, medically uncomplicated lower and upper extremity edema.

Predmet: Klinična ocena mišično-skeletnega sistema

Course title: Clinical assessment of musculoskeletal system

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Assist. Prof. Matej Voglar

Content:

1. Advanced functional and qualitative testing:
• Test batteries for the assessment of movement quality for different populations (FMS testing, test batteries for elderly),
• Clinical assessment of selected movement patterns (squat, lunge, jump, landing).

2. Clinical assessment of the upper limb:
• Clinical tests for injuries of muscles and ligaments of the shoulder girdle and shoulder joint,
• Clinical tests for injuries of muscles and ligaments of the elbow and the wrist,
• Clinical examination for selected chronic disorders of the upper limb (epicondylitis, carpal tunnel syndrome),
• Detailed examination for individual injuries in the upper limb (rotator cuff injuries, subacromial impingement, SLAP lesion, bursitis, shoulder. instability).

3. Clinical assessment of the lower limb:
• Clinical tests for injuries of muscles and ligaments of the hip joint,
• Clinical tests for injuries of muscles and ligaments of the knee joint,
• Clinical tests for injuries of muscles and ligaments of the ankle and the foot,
• Clinical examination for selected chronic disorders of the lower limb (jumper’s knee, patellofemoral syndrome, chronic ankle instability),
• Test for suspected fractures in case of acute injuries (Ottawa rules for ankle and knee),
• Detailed examination for individual injuries in the lower limb (hip impingements, muscle tears, stress fractures, cruciate ligaments injuries, collateral knee ligaments injuries, meniscal injuries, injuries to the Achilles tendon).

4. Clinical assessment of the trunk and the spine:
• Clinical tests for the injuries of intervertebral joints,
• Clinical tests for disc herniation and other injurie of the intervertebral discs,
• Clinical tests for chronic degenerations of the spine (spinal stenosis, degeneration of the intervertebral discs),
• Clinical battery of tests for assessment of possible injuries or irritations in the sacroiliac joint.

5. Integration of knowledge for comprehensive testing:
• Considering the anamnesis before the selection of the clinical tests,
• Choosing and performing the appropriate clinical tests,
• Integration of the results and comprehensive interpretation of the clinical outcomes.

Predmet: Klinična biokemija

Course title: Clinical biochemistry

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Saša Kenig

Content:
• Basics of clinical biochemistry
• Basic methods of biochemical diagnostics
• Blood cells and bodies
• Blood parameters – exosomes
• Blood parameters – lipid profile
• Basics of enzymology, clinical aspects
• Proteins of the immune system
• Hormones
• Microelements
• Gases in blood
• Clinical Biochemical diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases
• Clinical biochemical diagnostics of liver diseases
• Biochemical changes in metabolic syndrome
• Determination of oxidative stress in different diets
• Hormonal, enzymatic and metabolic changes in different diets
• Following changes in biochemical parameters in different diets, monitoring of progress

Predmet: Strokovna angleščina v dietetiki

Course title: English for specific purposes in dietetics

ECTS: 3

Lecturer: Assist. Prof. Barbara Jurša Potocco

Content:

1. Skills
a. Oral expression and communication
• basic conversational strategies (language of tact and diplomacy);
• discussions and debates on topics from dietetics;
• successful public speaking: efficient presentations at international professional and scientific symposiums;
• interpretation of graphs and tables;

b. Reading comprehension
• discussion of advanced authentic texts from the field of dietetics with reading comprehension strategies and exercises;
• acquisition and expansion of terminology from the field of dietetics; collocations, translation;

c. Listening comprehension
• development of listening comprehension skills by listening to authentic recordings, taking notes, summarizing;

d. Written expression
• writing technical and scientific texts (essay, report, abstract), citing sources, summarizing, paraphrasing;
• writing official texts: cover letter, CV;

2. Grammar structures
• the English tense system, active and passive voice
• conditional sentences
• reported speech
• articles
• gerund and infinitive
• modal verbs

3. Vocabulary
• dietetics terminology (collocations, derivation)
• hedging, linking, discourse markers,
• raising awareness of the differences between general English and English for Specific Purposes.

Predmet: Prehrana ob bolezenskih stanjih

Course title: Clinical nutrition in disease states

ECTS: 6

Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Tamara Poklar Vatovec

Content:

1. Nutritional screening process for patients:

• Nutritional screening and examination,
• Nutritional diagnosis,
• Nutritional intervention,
• Nutritional monitoring and intervention.

2. Methods of nutritional treatment.

3. Methods of determining and monitoring dietary intake.

4. Preparation of a nutritional plan and interventions based on different disease conditions:

• Malnutrition and overnutrition,
• Metabolic disorders,
• Eating disorders,
• Gastrointestinal diseases,
• Cardiovascular diseases,
• Respiratory diseases,
• Endocrine diseases,
• Diseases of bones and muscles,
• Urinary tract diseases,
• Blood diseases,
• Diseases of the central nervous system and mental disorders,
• Diseases of the immune system,
• Allergies and food intolerance,
• Infections and food poisoning,
• Perioperative nutrition,
• Nutrition of a life-threatening patient.

5. Case studies – evidence-based nutritional therapy.