Ateneo - UPO

Assessment and treatment of neuromusculoskeletal diseases, focusing on soft tissue injuries

Slides.
Orthopedic Physical Assessment – Magee.
Dolore Muscolare – Travell & Simons.
Muscle pain – Understanding the Mechanisms. Mense & Gerwin.
Apparato Locomotore - Anatomia e Funzioni – Hochschild.

To accomplish a subjective and physical examination of a patient with musculosckeletal impairment
To use a clinical reasoning and evidence based medicine approach in the assessment and treatment procedure

Knowledge of anatomy, biomechanics, and basic functional assessment methods (eg Manual Muscle Test, Joint Exam)

Frontal lessons

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Written test

Brief introduction to manual therapy and clinical reasoning.
Pain, soft tissue injuries and their healing process
Evidence based clinical approach to the subjective and physical examination of the spine
Clinical reasoning (including free body diagrams)
Clinical guidelines

To be able to evaluate, set up and develop a rehabilitation treatment based on clinical reasoning and scientific evidence in patients with musculoskeletal problems