PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
cod. 21449

Academic year 2007/08
5° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Medicina fisica e riabilitativa (MED/34)
Field
Discipline neurologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
4 hours
of face-to-face activities
0.5 credits
hub: -
course unit
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Integrated course unit module: NEUROLOGY

Learning objectives

<br />Aim of this course is to provide the students with basic knowledge on physiotherapic evaluation and on rehabilitation programmes for neurologic pathologies

Prerequisites

<br />Physics Laws<br />Human Anatomy<br />Physiology

Course unit content

<br />PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION<br /> <br />Tecniques of movement reeducation<br />Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitations<br />Ergoterapy<br />The Hypokinetic Syndrome<br />Team in Reabilitation: Doctors, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Logopedists, Social assistants, Psychologists, Orthopaedic Tecnicians<br />Rehabilitative Programme: Evaluation, Pianification, Threatment, Measurement, Short and Long Term Target<br />Scale of Activity of daily life ( A.D.L. )<br />Barthel Index and Measurement of Functional Indipendence ( F.I.M. )<br />Scale of handicap<br />Rehabilitative approach after stroke<br />Principles of rehabilitations in cerebral lesions<br />Gait Analisys in Rehabilitative Medicine   

Full programme

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Bibliography

G. Megna: " Manuale di Riabilitazione "  Editeam  s.a.s.

Teaching methods

<br />oral lesson<br />oral examination

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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