39183 - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Rheumathology and Geriatrics (RN)

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)

Learning outcomes

REHABILITATION IN GERIATRICS AND RHEUMATOLOGY

Academic Year 2024/2025
Prof. Cecilia Sedioli


• Rehabilitation in geriatrics: the complexity of the elderly patient
• Fragility
• Sarcopenia
• Hypokinetic syndrome
• Delirium
• Falls
• Restraints
• Clinical, care and rehabilitation evaluation scales in the elderly patient: a common language
• The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and
of Health)
• Main assistance and rehabilitation aids in the elderly patient
• prescriptive procedure of "ausili" and orthosis
• Pressure injuries
• Femur fractures: diagnosis, classification, types of interventions,
Femur fracture path
• Osteoporosis
• The lower limb amputated patient
• Pain: how to orient yourself
•Rheumatoid arthritis
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Ostearthrosis
• Fibromyalgia
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• Focus  on urinary incontinence in elderly people  


Office hours

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