42247 - Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 2

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student: - Knows the general framework of the discipline, the concepts of health and social activities of rehabilitation, the professional organization and rehabilitation structures. - Knows the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (IFC = International Classification of Functioning). - Knows the tools and techniques for the impairment assessment and the most common disability assessment scales. - Knows the most common therapeutic means in the rehabilitation field and the indications (physical therapy, kinesitherapy, neuromotor rehabilitation, occupational therapy, orthoses and aids, adapted physical activity, advanced technologies for rehabilitation). - Can identify the relationships between disease, impairment, disability and handicap of the main diseases of the elderly and the consequent organizational and therapeutic strategies for patient management.

Course contents

Introduction to the concept of frail elderly and multidimensional assessment. Deconditioning syndrome

Principles of rehabilitation in the elderly patient with osteoarthritis. Rehabilitative project in conservative treatment. Rehabilitation project in case of surgical treatment of hip or knee arthroprosthesis

Principles of rehabilitation in patients with stroke outcomes. Neuromotor re-education. Treatment of spasticity

Principles of rehabilitation in the patient with Parkinson’s disease. Adapted physical activity.

Readings/Bibliography

• Manuale di ausili e cure del paziente geriatrico a domicilio, Utet 2002
• Cisari C., Molteni F. Stroke. Clinica e Riabilitazione, Edi Ermes 2005
• American Geriatrics Society, British Geriatrics Society and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Panel on Falls Prevention. Guideline for the Prevention of Falls in Older Persons. JAGS 2001; 49: 664-672
• Commissione Intersocietaria per l’Osteoporosi: Linee Guida sulla gestionedell’Osteoporosi e delle Fratture da fragilità https://www.sigg.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Linee-Guida-definitive-OSTEOPOROSI-1.pdf
• Rehabilitation in osteoarthritis Therapy (2010) 7(6), 669–674
• https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/305145-overview
• Systematic Review of Guidelines for the PhysicalManagement of Osteoarthritis Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2014;95:375-89.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons with presentation support .PPT

Assessment methods

Written test

The final test consists of a written test with 5 questions, 2 open and 3 multiple-choice.

The criterion for integrating the grade into the final overall assessment of the CI provides for the weighted mathematical average based on credits.

Teaching tools

pdf file of the lessons, personal notes, scientific papers

Office hours

See the website of Daniela Platano