Physiotherapy | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Malattie apparato locomotore (MED/33)
Field: "altre attività quali l'informatica, attività seminariali ecc."
Type of training activity: More

20 hours
of face-to-face activities

1 credits

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Integrated course unit module: DISEASES OF THE LOCOMOTOR APPARATUS

Learning objectives

At the end of the course the student should know in large measure the rheumatic pathologies

Prerequisites

have passed first year exams

Course unit content

The course focuses on topics of reumathology of interst in the field of Physioteraphy.

Full programme

Classification of rheumatic diseases. The inflammatory arthropathy: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy: rheumatoid arthritis, seronegative arthritis (ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, Reiter's syndrom. - Connectivitis: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy, SLE, sclerodermia, vasculitis dermatopolymyositis: clinical features, differential diagnosis and terapy: polymyalgia rheumatica, temporal arteritis. Osteoarthritis: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy. - Microcrystalline arthropathies: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy. - Extra-articular rheumatism: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy. - Fibromyalgia: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy. Osteoporosis Paget's disease neuroalgodistrofiaThe treatment of rheumatic diseases: NSAIDs, steroids, therapies skiing

Bibliography

Material provided by the teacher

Teaching methods

Classroom lectures and, at the student’s discretion, exercises in orthopaedia and traumatology at Emergency and Orthopaedic Surgery.

Assessment methods and criteria

oral examination

Other information

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RHEUMATOLOGY cod. 05846