REHABILITATION

[755ME]
a.a. 2025/2026

Second semester

Frequency Mandatory

  • 1 CFU
  • 12 hours
  • Italian
  • Trieste
  • Obbligatoria
  • Oral Exam
  • SSD MED/33
  • Advanced concepts and skills
Curricula: COMMON
Syllabus

Knowledge and understanding: the student will have to demonstrate the knowledge of: epidemiology, pathological anatomy and pathophysiology clinical and instrumental framework and outline of therapy of the main
musculoskeletal disorders of a traumatic, degenerative-inflammatory, oncological, infectious nature.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the student must
demonstrate that he has acquired skills, tools and a conscious autonomy of judgment in relation to the development of musculoskeletal system disorders, demonstrating to understand the pathophysiological mechanism of these pathologies, their clinical classification and principles
of treatment.
Autonomy of judgement: the students will have to demonstrate that he has acquired knowledges reasoning according to the specific logic of the discipline. He has to be able to apply the right semiological tools, the right diagnostic instrumental procedure and propose the correct therapeutic pathways.

Knowledge about musculoskeletal anatomy, nervous and vascular
system, physics, physiology, general pathology

1. General concepts regarding rehabilitation
a. Premises, vision and mission of rehabilitation
b. Centrality of the disabled person
c. Bio-psycho-social Unit
d. Rehabilitation focused on targets
e. Rehabilitation team
f. Individual Rehabilitation Project
g. Professional partnership of rehabilitation team
h. Rehabilitation treatment
i. Complex or basic rehabilitation need
j. Intensive or extensive rehabilitation treatment
k. Rehabilitation settings
2. Rehabilitation assessments in neurological patient
a. Stroke
b. Spinal cord injury
c. Standardized evaluation scales
d. Taking in charge patient in acute-subacute-stationary condition
e. Patient mobilization and positioning
f. Bladder-sphincter function
g. Bowel function
h. Dysphagia
i. Neurocognitive evaluation (neglect, apraxia)
j. Depression
k. Home reintegration
l. Auxiliary supplies
3. Rehabilitation treatment for cancer patient
a. After breast cancer surgery
b. Lymphedema treatment
c. After head-neck cancer surgery
d. Brain tumor
e. After prostate cancer surgery
f. After colorectal cancer surgery
4. Rehabilitation assessments in orthopedic patient
a. Hip joint replacement
b. Knee joint replacement
c. Lower extremity amputations

Nino Basaglia Medicina Riabilitativa. Medicina fisica e riabilitazione. Principi e Pratica. Idelson -
Gnocchi

1. General concepts regarding rehabilitation
a. Premises, vision and mission of rehabilitation
b. Centrality of the disabled person
c. Bio-psycho-social Unit
d. Rehabilitation focused on targets
e. Rehabilitation team
f. Individual Rehabilitation Project
g. Professional partnership of rehabilitation team
h. Rehabilitation treatment
i. Complex or basic rehabilitation need
j. Intensive or extensive rehabilitation treatment
k. Rehabilitation settings
2. Rehabilitation assessments in neurological patient
a. Stroke
b. Spinal cord injury
c. Standardized evaluation scales
d. Taking in charge patient in acute-subacute-stationary condition
e. Patient mobilization and positioning
f. Bladder-sphincter function
g. Bowel function
h. Dysphagia
i. Neurocognitive evaluation (neglect, apraxia)
j. Depression
k. Home reintegration
l. Auxiliary supplies
3. Rehabilitation treatment for cancer patient
a. After breast cancer surgery
b. Lymphedema treatment
c. After head-neck cancer surgery
d. Brain tumor
e. After prostate cancer surgery
f. After colorectal cancer surgery
4. Rehabilitation assessments in orthopedic patient
a. Hip joint replacement
b. Knee joint replacement
c. Lower extremity amputations
3. Intervento riabilitativo nel paziente oncologico
b. Trattamento del linfedema
c. Esiti intervento chirurgico per carcinoma del tratto cervico-facciale
d. Neolasie encefaliche
e. Esiti intervento chirurgico per carcinoma prostatico
f. Esiti intervento chirurgico per carcinoma colon-retto
4. Intervento riabilitativo nel paziente ortopedico
a. Artroprotesi di anca
b. Artroprotesi di ginocchio
c. Amputazione di arto inferior

Educational activity: lessons, videos projection

The exam will be carried out at the SC Medicina Riabilitativa of the Ospedale Maggiore

mail: valentina.pesavento@asugi.sanita.fvg.it

Oral examination:
with questions about issues of the course it will be verified if the student had reached the goal of knowledge and comprehension of subjects of the course.
The oral exam, organized in the form of an interwiew, requires a minimum of two questions and has an average duration of 15/20 minutes.
The score of the exam is attributed through a vote expressed out of thirty:
30/30 cum laude: excellent knowledge of the topics, language skills and analytical ability
- 27/29: good knowledge of the topics and analytical ability, notable language skills
- 24/26: good knowledge of the main topics, discreetly
language skills
- 21/23: reasonable mastery of the main teaching topics, satisfactory language skills
-18/20: minimal knowledge of the main teaching topics and technical language
- Insufficient: the student does not possess knowledge
acceptable of the contents of the different topics covered

This course explores topics closely related to one or more goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs)

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