This course will offer an introduction to clinical rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is an essential part of universal health coverage along with health promotion, prevention of disease, treatment, and palliative care. Rehabilitation helps a child, adult, or older person be as independent as possible in everyday activities and enables participation in education, work, recreation, and meaningful life roles such as taking care of family. Rehabilitation is also a field of human medicine.
In this course, lecturers will provide an introduction to the main areas of clinical rehabilitation, including the following topics:
• Functioning, Disability, and Health • Rehabilitation as a public health strategy and as a clinical process • Introduction to the rehabilitation team and the most common rehabilitation interventions • Introduction to anatomy and physiology • Introduction to rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injury • Rehabilitation of movements functions • Rehabilitation of athletes and adapted sports • Rehabilitation for limitations in urinary, bowel, and sexual functions • Rehabilitation for limitations in cardiovascular and respiratory functions • Rehabilitation for limitations in neurological and cognitive functions • Rehabilitation in the elderly population • Rehabilitation for limitations in speech, languages, and swallowing functions • Rehabilitation in the pediatric population |