2024-07-19 10:54:35
(ANSA) – TRIESTE, JULY 18 – The highly specialized rehabilitation hospital of Motta di Livenza (Treviso), the Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute (Imola), the Universities of Padua and Bologna and the Niguarda Hospital in Milan, with the “Bicocca” University, have established a new university Master’s degree, “The multidisciplinary management of the person with spinal cord injury”.
The Level 1 Master (lasting 12 months), the first of its kind in the Italian university panorama, and one of the few in Europe, focuses on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of spinal cord injuries and includes teachings on clinical, physiopathological, psychological, social and professional skills necessary for the multidisciplinary management of the spinal cord injured patient. It is a specialist path that will allow participants to develop a global approach to the patient with spinal cord injury through advanced clinical skills, communication skills and experience in rehabilitation in both the subacute and chronic phases.
According to the extraordinary commissioner of the Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute, Mario Tubertini, «compared to a few decades ago, we are facing a significant epidemiological change in people with spinal cord injury; together with the increase in life expectancy, we must therefore address the related complications».
The Master’s program includes not only a university course, but also internships and practice to be carried out in the Spinal Units of the rehabilitation institutes involved in the project, during which the future rehabilitators will not only work in contact with doctors of the physical medicine and rehabilitation specialties, but also with the rest of the multidisciplinary team involved in the rehabilitation process: nurses, speech therapists, psychologists, physiotherapists and occupational therapists. (ANSA).
2024-07-19 10:54:35