Wellbeing and health Archives - SAMK - Satakunnan ammattikorkeakoulu

Elina Pettersson, Matthias Rigal, Lea Heinrich & Maija Kangasperko SAMK

15.4.2019 | Wellbeing and health

European physioterapy teachers and students develop courses together

Students and their teacher from SAMK have developed physiotherapy education together with European partners in European Network of Physiotherapy in Higher Education (ENPHE). The online course Learning Clinical Reasoning has been planned together with physiotherapy educators and students from University of Vic-Central Catalonia University in Spain.

14.3.2019 | Master Degree

Welfare Technology – The Field of the Future

Welfare Technology – The Field of the Future Listen Leni Jokela chose Master´s degree education in Welfare Technology at SAMK because of...

26.2.2019 | Master Degree

International study group gives a variety of aspects to the field of rehabilitation

International study group gives a variety of aspects to the field of rehabilitation Listen Danmei He is studying in the Master’s degree...

14.1.2019 | Wellbeing and health

What’s physiotherapy got to do with mental health? Our IOPTMH Executive Board member in interview

What’s physiotherapy got to do with mental health? A lot, according to Merja Sallinen, a Member of Executive Board of International Organization of Physical Therapists in Mental Health.

12.12.2018 | Teknologia

No more Science Fiction – Exoskeleton Robot Teaches How to Walk

Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK) Research and Development Unit has made a significant investment by purchasing a robotized Indego exoskeleton made by Parker Hannifin Corporation. Exoskeleton is widely used for example in the rehabilitation of paralyzed patients but researchers are hoping to find also alternative applications for it.

7.12.2018 | Wellbeing and health

Physiotherapy students active in developing European physiotherapy education

Lea Heinrich and Elina Pettersson, second year students of physiotherapy in SAMK, act on the European level physiotherapy education development beside their studies. Why, where and which way?/

Koulutuksessa tehtiin myös harjoituksia. Kuva: Xiao Chujun

30.10.2018 | Wellbeing and health

Education export of elderly care from SAMK to China started

Work with the aged and especially memory loss diseases are an area which interests in China as well as elsewhere in the world. Sari Teeri, Principal Lecturer, and Päivi Kankaanranta, Senior Lecturer, did pioneering work for SAMK with education export to China at the end of September. The one-week education was attended by around fifty professionals of elderly care in the Changzhou region, from orderlies to people with university degrees.