Course Objective: The study and tranfer of knowledge in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic illness or disability or chronic pain.

Course Content: Introduction in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Gait disorders. Spinal trauma and spinal cord injuries. Musculoskeletal pain. Joint and spinal injections. Cerebral Palsy in children. Spasticity, Heterotopic ossification. Traumatic brain injuries. Cerebrovascular accidents. Neurogenic bladder and bowel. Limb amputation and prostheses. Decubitus ulcers. Deep vein thrombosis. Chronic illness psychology.

Clinical practise: Patient's history and functional impairments in the rehabilitation phase. Physical examination of the patient in the rehabilitaton phase. Training in rehabilitative medical interventions (surgical or non-surgical).

Structure and outcomes: The course is taking place at the conference room as well as in small groups of students for the clinical practise. The students are following the full working schedule of the clinic (patient's rooms, outpatient clinic). They acquire theoretical and practical knowledge by working next to the faculty during medical interventions. Their final level of knowledge enable them to diagnose and differentiate handicap-disability-functional impairment, to describe the idea of continuous medical care and, furthemore, to aknowledge the appropriate therapeutic infrastructures in the different phases of rehabilitation.

Hours of training per student: 26

From the 9th Semester

ECTS: 2