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SCIENZE MEDICO CHIRURGICHE AVANZATE NELLA TERAPIA OCCUPAZIONALE

Teaching Staff

PIERA CAPRANZANO - Module CARDIOLOGIA - MED/11 - 2 CFU
MICHELE COLACI - Module REUMATOLOGIA - MED/16 - 2 CFU
EMANUELE D'AMICO - Module Neurology - MED/26 - 2 CFU
MARCELLO ANGELO ALFREDO DONATI - Module General Surgery - MED/18 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• REUMATOLOGIA
  

  To learn the main rheumatic diseases, their clinical pictures and their possible functional issues.

• Neurology
  

  Basic principles of physiology and anatomy of the nervous system: fundamental elements of the nervous system. Cell development and constituents of the nervous system.

  Functional Systems: Motion Control. Somatosensory systems. Visual system. Auditory system. Vestibular system. Reticular formation. Limbic system. Autonomous nervous system. Higher cortical functions.

• General Surgery
  

  The course aims to provide the basic notions in the main topics of general surgery useful and necessary for the occupational therapist.

Course Structure

• REUMATOLOGIA
  

  Classroom lessons, using PowerPoint.

• Neurology
  

  Lectures and internships (compatibly with the provisions on COVID 19 infection)

• General Surgery
  

  Frontal or online teaching on a digital platform with powerpoint presentations and with the support of surgical videos.

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Detailed Course Content

• REUMATOLOGIA
  

  The pain in rheumatology: articular inflammatory or degenerative pain, muscle and fibromyalgic pain, neuropathic pain.

  The main inflammatory arthropathies: rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankilosing spondylitis, and other spondyloarthritis, gout. Main features, functional problems.

  Osteoarthritis.

  Fibromyalgia.

  Polymialgia rheumatica.

  Connective tissue diseases (systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, Sjogren's syndrome, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, mixed connective tissue disease, undifferentiated connective tissue disease) and vasculitides (giant cell arteritis and Takayasu's arteritis, polyarteritis nodosa and Kawasaki's disease, mixed cryoglobulinemia, Schoenlein-Henoch purpura, ANCA-associated vasculitis). Main features and possible functional problems.

  Osteoporosis.

  Other painful syndromes due to nerve commpression.

• Neurology
  

  Neurological physical examination

  Movement Disorders

  Sensory Disorders

  Medullary syndromes

  Cerebral syndromes: frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, thalamic.

  Cerebellar syndrome

  Aphasias

  Cerebrovascular diseases

  Epilepsies

  Inflammatory diseases of the S.N.C.

  Infectious Diseases of the S.N.C

  Peripheral diseases of the CNS

• General Surgery
  

  General and basic notions of the main problems of general surgical interest, with attention to the rehabilitation phases, the pathology of prolonged bed rest, the wound healing process and its complications.

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Textbook Information

• REUMATOLOGIA
  

  Books for medical students or general practioners on rheumatology or clinical immunology are suggested.

• Neurology
  

  Clinical Neurology, David A. Greenberg, Michael J. Aminoff

  Editor: McGraw-Hill

• General Surgery
  

  Chirurgia. Dionigi R, Basi teoriche e chirurgia generale. Edra

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