TRAUMATOLOGIC AND RHEUMATOLOGIC REHABILITATION
cod. 1004758

Academic year 2015/16
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Scienze infermieristiche e tecniche neuro-psichiatriche e riabilitative (MED/48)
Field
Scienze della fisioterapia
Type of training activity
Characterising
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: DISEASES OF THE LOCOMOTOR APPARATUS

Learning objectives

Acquisition of capacity to perform functional evaluation and physiotherapeutic treatment in the main traumatological and rheumatological orthopedic pathologies

Prerequisites

Locomotor apparatus anatomy
Kinesiology locomotor apparatus

Course unit content

Rehabilitation of major traumatic and degenerative orthopedic diseases and Rehabilitation of the main rheumatological diseases: Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoporosis, Arthrosis

Full programme

Rehabilitation of major traumatic and degenerative orthopedic diseases: evaluation and physiotherapy treatment in case of muscolar lesion and tendon, painful shoulder, elbow and wrist trauma, epicondylitis and epitrocleitis, carpal tunnel sdr, patellar femoris pain, lesion and ACL, PCL, LCL, MCL, Meniscus, lesions ankles and at the foot. Rehabilitation of the main rheumatological diseases: Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoporosis, Arthrosis

Bibliography

Teacher's lecture.
La riabilitazione in ortopedia, S. Brent Brotzman, Kevin E. Wilk, Elsevier srl, 2004.
Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System: Foundations for Rehabilitation, Donald A. Neumann
Edizione 3, Elsevier, 2016

Teaching methods

Lectures and practical exercises

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral Examination

Other information

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