Locomotor Pathology; Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

- classification of rheumatic diseases
- rheumatoid arthritis
- microcrystalline arthritis
- connective tissue disease
- ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis
- osteoarthritis and osteoporosis

- Introduction of hand surgery and rehabilitation
- Anatomy of the hand
- Common diseases of the hand: Minimally-invasive approaches
- Main athrosis clinical picture: surgical treatment
- Traumatic and compressive disorders of the peripheral nervous system
- Fractures of the hand and wrist: indications, conservative and surgical treatment
- Ligamentous and tendon injuries of the hand
- The traumatic hand: CUMI centers, amputations, complex traumas
- Soft tissue injuries of the hand: the role of microsurgery
- Congenital malformations of the hand

TRAUMATOLOGY:
- mechanism of traumatic injuries and general aspects of the most important lesions of soft tissues, joints, muscles and tendons, bone, and cartilage, and their complications;
- principles of conservative and surgical treatment of the fractures;
- principal lesions of the skeleton:
o hip fractures;
o dislocation of the shoulder;
o fractures of the shaft of the long bones;
o fractures of the spine;
ORTOPEDIA:
- primary and secondary osteoporosis and fragility fractures, femural and vertebral and mention of
- other metabolic bone deseases;
- joint replacement in osteoartritis and other reumatic deseases and its complications;
- bone infections;
- intervertebral disc herniation and degeneration;
- mentions of congenital deformities and of developmental pathologies;
- mentions of skeletal tumors, primitive, benign and malignant, and secondary;
most common tendon pathologies.
Aim:
- Recovery after brain damage
- Implicit and explicit learning
- Movement, space and mirror neurons
- The rehabilitation project in coma and stroke outcomes
- Stroke rehabilitation guidelines
- Minimum rehabilitation assessment protocol for the person with severe acquired brain injury (GCA)
- Rehabilitation project in Infantile Cerebral Palsy

General concepts and Guidelines; Rehabilitative care of the neurological patient affected by: Demyelinating diseases: Multiple sclerosis; Systematic degenerative diseases: Progressive myelopathic atrophies, Progressive neuronal muscle atrophies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Spino cerebellar heredoaxassias (Friedreich's disease); Diseases of the extrapyramidal system: Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonisms; Neuromuscular diseases: progressive muscular dystrophies, myotonies and myasthenia