- Docente: Angela Albano
- Credits: 2
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student knows the materials used for the functional bandage and the principles for their use in the main neuro-musculoskeletal pathologies. Acquires skills in the packaging of the most commonly used functional bandages
Course contents
- Indications, contraindications and limitations of functional bandage and neuromuscular taping
- Choice of materials and design criteria
- Types of functional bandage depending on the pathology and the area affected, or depending on the function.
- Purpose of bandaging in muscle, joint, tendon problems.
- Basic shapes: spiral turn, helical turn, figure eight, palisade figure, braided figure, butterfly figure or 'x' system.
- Compression bandage, therapeutic bandage, preventive functional bandage, taping.
Readings/Bibliography
Loris Stella "Bandage of knee and spine" edi-ermes
Loris Stella "Ankle bandage" edi-ermes
Loris Stella Upper limb bandage" edi-ermes
Blow David "Neuromuscular taping, from theory to practice" Ed.Ermes, 2012
Blow David "Neuromuscular taping, treatments of edema, hematomie scars" edi-ermes
Teaching methods
Lectures (slides and videos), practical demonstrations and applications of bandage/tape in pairs
Assessment methods
Theoretical-practical exam
Teaching tools
PC and video projector
Office hours
See the website of Angela Albano