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
- Burn injuries

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;

Rehabilitation: definition and meanings. The poster for the rehabilitation of the child. Rehabilitation as a complex process.
Conceptual differences between measurement, evaluation and classification.
Georg Rasch's model: potential and limits.
The assessment of adaptive behavior by observation.
Infantile cerebral palsy as a complex paradigm of rehabilitation.
The CPQoL questionnaire (quality of life assessment).
Head trauma as a complex paradigm of acquired brain injury.
Stroke as a paradigm of focal lesions of the Central Nervous System.
Neuroplasticity, the concept of affordance.
The canonical neurons and mirror neurons. The thought movement.

Pain in orthopedics and traumatology: musculoskeletal pain
- Rehabilitation after implantation of a joint prostheses
- Amputations and preparation for the use of limb prostheses
- The rehabilitation of the traumatized patient
General concepts and guidelines
The rehabilitation management of the neurological patient affected by
- Demyelinating diseases: multiple sclerosis;
- Neurodegenerative diseases: Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonisms, progressive myelopathic atrophies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
- Inherited disorders: spino cerebellar heredoatassias (Friedreich's disease); progressive neuronal muscle atrophies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth)
- Neuromuscular diseases: progressive muscular dystrophies, myotonias and myasthenia
- Movement disorders: dystonia
- Muscle tone alteration: spasticity