Estudia a la UdG

• Comunicar-se de mode efectiu i clar
• Tenir la capacitat d'aprenentatge autònom
• Resoldre problemes
• Tenir capacitat de gestió d'informació
• Resoldre problemes complexos de forma efectiva en el camp de la Fisioteràpia.
• Treballar de forma autònoma amb responsabilitat i iniciativa.
• Adquirir l'experiència clínica adequada que proporcioni habilitats intel·lectuals i destreses tècniques i manuals; que facilitin la incorporació de valors ètics i professionals; i que desenvolupi la capacitat d'integració dels coneixements adquirits, de manera que, al final dels estudis, els estudiants sàpiguen aplicar-los tant a casos clínics concrets en el medi hospitalari i extrahospitalari, com a actuacions en l'atenció primària i comunitària.
• Dissenyar el pla d'intervenció en fisioteràpia, atenent a criteris d'adequació, validesa i eficiència.
• Executar, dirigir i coordinar el pla d'intervenció de Fisioteràpia, utilitzant les eines terapèutiques pròpies i atenent a la individualitat de l'usuari.

1. Introduction and theory of spinal manual therapy

2. Lumbar Spine

3. Sacro Iliac Joint

4. Cervical Spine

5. Thoracic Spine

6. Neurological Examination

7. Mulligan techniques

8. Maitland assessment and techniques

9. McKenzie assessment

10. Practical Exam

11. Theory exam

12. Video case study

13. Critical thinking and clinical reasoning

14. Precautions and safety

• Elly Hengefeld and Kevin Banks (2013). Maitland's Vertebral Manipulation (8th Edition). Churchill Livingstone Publishers.
• Cesar Fernandez-De-las-Peñas et al. (2016). Manual Therapy for Musculoskeletal Pain Syndromes. Elsevier.
• Peggy Houglum (2016). Therapeutic Exercise for Musculoskeletal Injuries 4th Edition. Human Kinetics.

Activitats d'avaluació:

Must achieve >50% to pass the subject overall.
Nonattendance: Class attendance is compulsory.
Students must attend 80% of the practical class time both live and virtually.
Exceptions will only be made for those students who can certify having been hospitalized on the given day, or due to a relative passing away.
Failure to comply with 80% practical class attendance will require students to sit the Basic Competencies Exam (BCE).
Note: Late arrivals and early leavers will be documented, and count towards attendance.

This subject will consist of one practical exams, worth 50%, a video case study worth 30% and a theory exam worth 20%.

Students are required to pass both the theory and practical exams with a minimum of 50% in each exam.

Please note that students opting to take the special evaluation must notify their decision to the lecturer before the 16th Oct 2020.

Criteris específics de la nota «No Presentat»:
Student not having attended neither practical lectures nor the final exam will be considered as "No Presentado".

Avaluació única:
For the Unique evaluation students - both theory and practical exams will take place on 31st May 2021.
It is expected that Unique evaluation students submit a case study with the same deadline as all students. Failure to submit on time will lead to a 30% loss of the final mark.
Students are required to pass both the theory and practical exams with a minimum of 50% in each exam.

Requisits mínims per aprovar:
Per considerar superada l’assignatura, caldrà obtenir una qualificació mínima de 5.0

The lecturer will be available for mentoring upon previous request by email.

Students must contact the lecturer via email.

Neither rings nor bracelets are allowed during classes or exams. Students must wear their student uniforms during exams.