Ateneo - UPO

We will provide the tools to allow the student to perform critical observation of the healthy and pathological adult subject.
The ability of observation is the essential tool in the learning process of skills and competences crucial for the profession, represents the first step of the approach to the patient, lays the foundation for learning the patient’s evaluation, necessary for the drafting of the rehabilitation project.
This workshop should develop the ability to grasp the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of movement and the specificity of static and dynamic posture and movement of healthy and pathological adult subjects.

Material provided in the classroom.
Also recommended:
Daniels and Worthingham: Examination of the Muscular System: Manual Examination Techniques and Functional Performance Testing
Hislop, Helen J.
Exam Text
2016

The objective of this lessons is the development of the ability to observe the healthy subject (1st semester) and the adult pathological subject (2nd semester). For each of them, the student will learn the movement in its global and specific characteristics, the static and dynamic posture, the quality of the movement, the peculiarity of the subject-patient, the difference in the movement between healthy and pathological subject.

Students must have knowledge of human anatomy, general rehabilitation, functional biomechanical anatomy.

In person lectures for a better exposition of content
Viewing of videos
Group activity on the comparison of video content

The subjects used for observation will be freely chosen by the student.

Compilation of observation files on the healthy and pathological subject in static and dynamic posture
internship examination

Definition of observation
Principles of observation in rehabilitation
The tools of observation for the physiotherapist
the context of observation
the method of observation in healthy and pathological subjects
Global and specific characteristics of observation of healthy and pathological subjects
Methods of observation of different postures in healthy and pathological subjects (static and dynamic posture)
Movement observation: specific aspects
Quality of movement (in healthy subjects)
Qualitative anomalies in the movement of the pathological subject

The student will be able to compile files on healthy and pathological subjects (as per internship contract) observing the context, method, sequence of observation, identifying global and specific characteristics of the observed subject.