Corso di laurea in Fisioterapia

At the end of the course, students will have acquired information and conducted exercises on:

- Therapeutic Western massage, sports massage, visceral massage, connective tissue massage, and scar treatment.

- Pompages, rehabilitative approaches to spinal pain, functional, vascular, and stump bandaging, treatment of amputees, and knowledge of lower limb prosthesis components.

- Myofascial massage (Stecco).

- Decongestive maneuvers for lymphedema in all areas and multilayer bandaging.

- Design and construction of some hand orthoses.

Knowledge of various intervention tools listed above, usable in rehabilitation practice and to be further explored, reasoning about their use and choice.

- Various muscular pompages.

- Principles and techniques of myofascial massage.

- Approaches to the problem of spinal pain.

- Vascular and stump bandaging.

- Functional bandaging: materials, types, tibiotarsal bandaging exercises.

- Constituent components of lower limb prostheses.

- Rehabilitation of amputees.

- Theory of tutoring: types of tutors/orthoses, purposes of tutors, anatomical considerations, construction principles, application principles, tutor design.

- Construction of at least 3 tutors: safety position, ulnar nerve lesion at 8, median nerve lesion in pro-opposition.

- Lymphatic drainage of the lower limb, upper limb, trunk, and face.

- Lymphatic drainage after removal of inguinal lymph nodes and axillary lymph nodes post-mastectomy.

- Multilayer bandaging of the lower limb and upper limb.

- Western therapeutic massage, sports massage, visceral massage, scar massage, connective tissue massage.

Frontal lessons and exercises.

The exam includes a practical part that revisits the exercises carried out in class and a written part that explores the theoretical aspect more.

Additional teachers:

- Dr. Pistone Giorgio: Massage Therapy.

- Dr. Arnoldo Marco: Visceral.

- Dr. Prato Ilaria: Orthotics.