REHABILITATION OF CEREBRAL PALSY
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Provide students with the theoretical tools necessary to tackle Infantile Cerebral Palsy from a rehabilitative point of view
Increase the evaluation skills relative to observed clinical signs
Enable students to recognise the signs of Infantile Cerebral Paralysis, to identify the related issues and to discuss with the professor any possible therapeutic solutions
Prerequisites
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ATTENDANCE OF THE INITIAL LECTURES OF PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY
have attended some pediatric neurology lectures
Course contents summary
Criteria for the evaluation and treatment of Infantile Cerebral Palsy
ICP: definition and general concepts, motor disorders, perceptual disorders, intentional disorders
Clinical forms
Recognising clinical signs, identifying rehabilitative issues, designing the rehabilitative project
- Criteria for the evaluation and treatment of Infantile Cerebral Palsy
- Infantile Cerebral Palsy: definition and general concepts, motor disorders, perceptual disorders, intentional disorders
- Infantile Cerebral Palsy: clinical forms
- Spastic forms
- Dyskinetic forms
- Ataxic forms
- Recognising clinical signs, identifying rehabilitative issues, designing the rehabilitative project
- Analysis of video recording
Recommended readings
lecture notes provided by the professor
Recommended text Ferrari Cioni ' le forme spastiche della Paralisi Cerebrale Infantile' Springer
Teaching methods
classroom lectures
analysis of video recorded clinical cases
group discussion
