SPORT MEDICINE
cod. 01751

Academic year 2007/08
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Medicina interna (MED/09)
Field
Scienze fisioterapiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
18 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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course unit
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Course unit divided into the following partitions:

Integrated course unit module: REHABILITATION OF VISCERAL DISABILITY

Learning objectives

This course is designed to provide students with concepts and critical tools relative to the significance of obesity for the patient and for society, on the advisability and limits involved in sports activity and competitive sports, on the nutritional principles, integration and use of drugs in sports and issues related to doping, on the adjustments and adaptations induced by physical activity, the athlete’s heart and related diseases, sports traumatology and cardiovascular reanimation, the role of physical exercise in the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of chronic degenerative diseases.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br />Sports activity and competitive sports: indications and limits. Nutritional information and hydration. Integration, reintegration and drugs: sports and doping. Physical exercise in the prevention and treatment of metabolic disorders. Physical activity and cardiovascular risk. Cardiovascular adjustment and adaptation in physical exercise. The athlete’s heart and correlated diseases. Sport traumatology: Clinical aspects, physical therapy and functional recovery. Cardiovascular reanimation of athletes.

Full programme

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Bibliography

P. Zeppilli, V. Palmieri ? Manuale di Medicina dello Sport e Pronto Soccorso. ? CESI: Casa Editrice Scientifica Internazionale.<br /><br />Fox Bowers Foss ? Le basi fisiologiche dell?educazione fisica e dello sport. ? Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore.<br /><br />D.R. Mottram: Farmaci e Sport. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana.<br /><br />P. Zeppilli ? Cardiologia dello sport. - CESI: Casa Editrice Scientifica Internazionale.<br /><br />G. Puddu, A. Piombini, A Salvanetti ? Rehabilitation of Sports Injuries ? Springer Ed.<br /><br />

Teaching methods

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Assessment methods and criteria

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