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Neurophysiology of rehabilitation
Neurophysiologiy of motor control and motor learning
Classification and rehabilitation treatment of movement, posture, balance and walking disorders.

1. BRADDOM’S PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION, FIFTH EDITION
 Elsevier, Inc., 2016. ISBN: 978-0-323-28046-4
2. http://emedicine.medscape.com/rehabilitation
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=physmedrehab

learning the scientific bases of recovery after neurological injury, of motor learning mechanisms and of plastic modifications induced by exercise and inactivity. The neurolophygical and biomechanical bases of posture and balance control and their rehabilitation will be exposed. Some central and peripheral neurological pathologies will be described; rehabilitative programs to obtain the optimization of the functional recovery in relation to the treatment’s goal will be discussed.

The student must be confident with basic concepts of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and myo-articular physiology.

lectures; group activities

n/a

Written exam with multiple choice questions

Scientific basis of rehabilitation: neural plasticity and recovery, associative and non-associative motor learning, adaptation to exercise and inactivity.
Physiological bases of posture and balance control: mechanical model of the human body; anatomo-physiology of passive mechanisms of postural control and active mechanisms (feedback and feedforward control); clinical balance evaluation scales; instrumental methods of analysis of posture, balance and walking.
Rehabilitation of movement, posture, balance and walking disorders: ataxias from sensory, vestibular, cerebellar, mixed damage; Parkinson's disease; multiple sclerosis; myopathies.

Identify the preventive and rehabilitative needs in people with neurological pathologies in the different phases of life, through the evaluation of clinical data and individual characteristics. Design, plan and perform physiotherapy interventions.