Unit PREVENTION AND RE-EDUCATION IN SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY
- Course
- Sciences and tecniques of sports and preventive and adapted physical activity
- Study-unit Code
- A002322
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Pierluigi Antinolfi
- Teachers
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- Pierluigi Antinolfi
- Hours
- 48 ore - Pierluigi Antinolfi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Biomedico
- Academic discipline
- MED/33
- Type of study-unit
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Main concepts of orthopedics and traumatology. Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, pathology, diagnosis and treatment of major orthopedic disorders and traumatic injuries of the musculoskeletal system. Principles of rehabilitation and their applications.
- Reference texts
- Communicated by the Professor at the beginning of the course
- Educational objectives
- Concepts of re-education useful for the graduate.
- Prerequisites
- Good knowledge of the musculoskeletal anatomy and the pathologies of locomotor apparatus
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons
- 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.
- Extended program
- General concepts of orthopedics. Main tissues and organs of the musculoskeletal system: biological and biomechanical characteristics.
Orthopedic physical examination. Main instrumental and laboratory evaluations. Types of lameness.
Congenital dysplasia of the hip, clubfoot and congenital torticollis.
Tendinopathies: general concepts of ethiopathogenesis, pathological anatomy, diagnosis and treatment. Main tendinopathies.
Muscle injuries: from epidemiology to diagnosis and treatment.
Femoral head necrosis.
Arthrosis: general concepts. Coxarthrosis, gonarthrosis, osteoarthritis of the spine, cervical and lumbar spine.
Disc diseases and lumbar and cervical disc herniation.
Types of traumatic lesions of the musculoskeletal system.
General information on fractures. Immediate, early and late complications.
Main fractures of the spine, pelvis, lower limb and upper limb.
Knee ligament injuries, meniscal injuries.
Shoulder instability. Shoulder conflict syndrome and rotator cuff injury.
Introduction to rehabilitation. Main methods of rehabilitation of the locomotor system and other organs and systems.
Type of physical therapy. Kinesiotherapy.