Ateneo - UPO

Physiotherapist: key concepts
Health
Diagnosis in physiotherapy and clinical reasoning
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)
Manual handling of load

_Tidy's Manuale di Fisioterapia

To acquire skills and competence of the physiotherapist
To acquire key concepts about the professional role
To introduce the framework of the physiotherapy activity
To prepare the student towards the clinical practice

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Lessons with PowerPoint presentations
Practical sessions

Written examination made of 20 items with multiple choices.

Physiotherapist: definition and field of activity, normative issues
Professional profile & code of ethics
Core curriculum & core competence
National and international education framework
Continuous Medical Education (CME) system
What is health and its interpretation
From the biomedical to biopsychosocial framework
Diagnosis in physiotherapy
Clinical Reasoning
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and Research methodology
Physiotherapy associations and professional order
Scientific societies and the Gelli-Bianco law
Manual Handling of loads

To have a professional language sufficient to begin the clinical training
To know the essential issues about normative, ethics and education
To know the key concepts about evidence-based practice and moving them to clinical practice
To acquire skills in the manual handling of loads (i.e. moving a patient from bed to a chair,...)