Unit MOTOR DISEASES
- Course
- Mobility and sports science
- Study-unit Code
- 50136005
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Auro Caraffa
- Teachers
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- Auro Caraffa
- Giovanni Battista Mancini (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 24 ore - Auro Caraffa
- 4 ore (Codocenza) - Giovanni Battista Mancini
- CFU
- 5
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Medico-clinico
- Academic discipline
- MED/33
- Type of study-unit
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- General knowledge of orthopedics and traumatology with special reference to sport activities.
Major injuries and diseases of the musculoskeletal system: epidemiology, etiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and prevention - Reference texts
- Clinica Ortopedica - Editore Piccin, 2003
Manuale di Ortopedia e Traumatologia- Editore Elsevier Masson, 2007
Ortopedia e Traumatologia- Editore Monduzzi ,2010 - Educational objectives
- The main target is to provide specific knowledge and expertise by integrating the knowledge base provided by the main course at the vocational training and lessions.
The main skills that students will acquire:
Knowledge of the basic elements of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the sport or related to motor activity.
The goal is to get a common terminology and to have the knowledge of the main diseases and / or injuries of the musculoskeletal system, especially in the etiopathogenesis and clinical features.
Know how to recover and the most simple gestures and those typical after an injury and / or disease. - Prerequisites
- To be able to understand and face the course, the student must get over the exam preparatory described in the regulation on the degree course, with huge success. knowledge of anatomy, physiology and general pathology is a positive background for the student who wants to follow the course with profit.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons
- Other information
- web site http://www.smotorie.unipg.it
- Learning verification modality
- The final examination is characterized by a written/practical multiple-choice test. It concerns of the several arguments regarding the entire course. It is a 60-minutes test. In alternative, the examinations could be conducted by an oral test regarding the same arguments. It will be conducted in order to test the level of knowledge and learning, and comprehension capacity onto the specific thematic areas too. It would also test the acquisition of methodology and property of thematic exposition. The oral test generally is 15/30 minutes long.
For info regarding services for supporting students with handicaps (or DSA), please visit URL-Page : http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- General concepts of orthopedics and traumatology with particular reference to sport.
Medical history, clinical examination and laboratory examinations.
Pathologies from sports and in sports.
Major traumatic injuries and orthopedic disorders in various age groups, with particular reference to motor activity and sports.
Osteoarthritis.
Alterations of growth. General problems of skeletal development.
Major traumatic injuries of the locomotor system: bruises, fractures, dislocations, sprains and wounds. The tendon, muscle injuries, cartilage injuries and stress fractures.
Major diseases and traumatic injuries of the lower limb, upper limb of the spine and pelvis.