Medicine and surgery | University of Parma

Professor: Valentina CANNONE
Academic discipline: Medicina interna (MED/09)
Field: Medicina delle attività motorie e del benessere
Type of training activity: Characterising

7 hours
of face-to-face activities

1 credits

hub: PARMA

course unit
in ITALIAN

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exam calls

Integrated course unit module: LIFESTYLES AND WELL-BEING

Learning objectives

Students will have to learn the preventive and therapeutic effect of physical exercise in different types of diseases, and be confident with the modality of prescription in different clinical situations.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of physiopathology, semeiotics and clinical methodology.

Course unit content

Sports medicine: an overview with particular focus on the therapeutic role of physical exercise.
-Physical exercise as prevention and therapy of the main clinical syndromes in internal medicine. The physical exercise prescription in internal medicine. Overview of the "lifestyle" concept and interventions to promote its modification.

Full programme

Sports medicine: general overview.
Exercise as therapy and prevention. Effects of exercise and training on the main organs and systems. Inactivity and its effects on health.
The “lifestyle” concept. Interventions aimed at modifying lifestyle.
Cardiovascular disease: exercise as prevention and treatment.
Sport-therapy prescription in internal medicine, with particular focus on the main chronic diseases: hypertension, diabetes (type 1 and 2), dyslipidemia, obesity, metabolic syndrome, malignant cancer. Smoke and physical exercise.

Bibliography

- Bonetti A, Dall’Aglio E, Magnati GRR, Vanelli M. Argomenti di stili di vita e benessere. MUP Monte Università Parma Editore 2014
- Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine. 9th Edition. Elsevier 2017.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral exam

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