PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- NINO BASAGLIA
- Credits
- 3
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- MED/34
Training objectives
- This course will equip the student with basic principles of rehabilitation, restoration of function and reintegration into the community. Special emphasis will be placed on the hallmark of rehabilitation Medicine: ICF - International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (World Health Organization).
At the end of the course the student will know the modern modalities and instruments of patient evaluation, the interdisciplinary team care in the neurological and musculoskeletal diseases considering that the disability cannot be isolated from preexisting and concurrent medical problems.
The student will acquire the different objectives and operating procedures between the physiotherapist and graduated in Motor Sciences. The student will need to know the meaning of the appropriate use of their specific expertise to supplement main methodologies and techniques of rehabilitation intervention in neurological and in musculoskeletal diseases Prerequisites
- The student needs to have good knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the motor and musculo-skeletal system as well as basic knowledge of other relevant organs and systems.
Course programme
- Basic principles of rehabilitation.
ICF - International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.
The interdisciplinary team in Rehabilitation Medicine
The comprehensive treatment team in rehabilitation
The evaluation and treatment of the principal neuromusculoskeletal movement-related disorders
Indications for “deconditioning and fitness” in person whith neurological and in musculoskeletal diseases Didactic methods
- The course forecasts 24 hours of teaching (frontal lectures)
Learning assessment procedures
- Multiple-choice test (one correct answer out of four or five options). There will be at least 20 test items. Only the correct answers count. Time available: 1 hour
Reference texts
- N. Basaglia (Ed). Medicina Riabilitativa. 4 volumi. Napoli: Idelson-Gnocchi, 2009
N. Basaglia (Ed). Progettare la Riabilitazione. Il lavoro in team interprofessionale. Milano: EdiErmes, 2002
