Learning outcomes

- to know the characteristics of helping relationship and to apply the principles of communication during professional relationship
- to know the risk factors related to the profession and to apply them in the context of clinical training to ensure the safety of person and operator: to apply hygienic principles of infection prevention, ergonomic principles, to select and use aids and personal safety devices
- to collect medical history in an orderly way
- to carry out clinical physical examination and to collect clinical data
- to carry out postural changes, passive mobilization, basic modalities of manual therapy

Program

The competences of the physiotherapist
Principles of hygiene and safety, detection of vital signs
Postural changes
History
Physical examination:
- Inspection and palpation
- Physical examination in the supine, lateral and posterior position, sitting with and without support of the trunk, upright
- Assessment of pain (Numering Rating Scale and Visual Analogic Scale)
- Measurement of Active and Passive Range of motion (AROM-PROM), limiting factors, end-feel, physiological degrees
- Definition: Manual measuring scales, agonist muscle function and stability
- Measurements of AROM, of PROM of lower limb, upper limb, trunk
- Assessment of the sensitivity
- Assessment of the cutaneous trophism, edema and muscle tropism
- Examination of gait and manipulation

Basic modalities of Manual Therapy:
- Purpose of joint mobilization
- Operating procedures: starting position, sockets, stability, breadth and speed of execution


HOURS SCHEDULED TO FOLLOW MORE HOURS OF EXERCISES

Examination Methods

To must attend regular frequency and recovery of absences and / or gaps in the individual skills.
Each semester there is a formative assessment by OSCE. The student is authorized to exercise and apply the principles and operating procedures in context of clinical training.