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 arthrosis 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;

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

General concepts and guidelines
The rehabilitation of the neurological patient suffering from:
- Demyelinating diseases: multiple sclerosis;
- Neurodegenerative diseases: Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonisms; progressive myelopathic atrophies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Hereditary diseases: progressive neuronal muscular atrophies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth), inherited, degenerative cerebellar spinal diseases (Friedreich's ataxia); Ehlers Danlos syndrome
- Rehabilitation in coma and stroke
- Stroke rehabilitation guidelines
- Severe acquired brain injury (GCA): rehabilitation assessment guidelines
- Neuromuscular diseases: progressive muscular dystrophies, myotonia and myasthenia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome

- Movement disorders: dystonia
- Alterations in muscle tone: spasticity
- Mirror neurons
- Mirror therapy