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Degree in Physiotherapy (5 yrs)

Physiotherapy is a science dealing with society’s needs, and is mainly aimed at people with disabilities in the musculoskeletal, neurological, pulmonary or cardiovascular system. The study of this discipline needs a sound grounding in basic life sciences; the ability to effectively convey information; as well as to properly give and assess treatments.


The degree in Physiotherapy is a clear example of quality teaching in the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio university. From the very first day, students come into direct contact with the health world, thanks to the UAX's University General Hospital, a health five-storey centre whose main aim is the high-quality health care. There, students can do their hospital training focused on Physiotherapy with the leading technology and equipment.


Summary
First Cycle
First Year
Second Year
Third Year
Electives
Versión española


First Year Summary
First semester Definition ECTS Hs per week
General Physiotherapy (A)Core11,008
Structure and Function of the Human Body (A)Core9,006
Applied Psychosocial ScienceCore6,004
ElectiveElective4,00--
Subtotal: 30,00 18
Second semester Definition ECTS Hs per week
General Physiotherapy (A)Core11,008
Structure and Function of the Human Body (A)Core9,006
General Motor FunctionsCompulsory6,004
ElectiveElective4,00--
Subtotal: 30,00 18

Second Year Summary
First semester Definition ECTS Hs per week
Physiotherapeutic Methodology (A)Core11,008
Clinical Practice I (A)Core7,004
General Medical-Surgical Theory and Locomotive System (A)Core4,004
Methodological Motor FunctionsCompulsory8,004
Subtotal: 30,00 20
Second semester Definition ECTS Hs per week
Physiotherapeutic Methodology (A)Core11,008
Clinical Practice I (A)Core7,004
General Medical-Surgical Theory and Locomotive System (A)Core4,004
Writing and Speaking SkillsCompulsory4,003
ElectiveElective4,00--
Subtotal: 30,00 19

Third Year Summary
First semester Definition ECTS Hs per week
Special Physiotherapy (A)Core10,008
Clinical Practice II (A)Core6,005
Special Motor FunctionsCompulsory6,004
Special Medical-Surgical Theory (A)Core4,003
OptionalOptional4,00--
Subtotal: 30,00 20
Second semester Definition ECTS Hs per week
Special Physiotherapy (A)Core10,008
Clinical Practice II (A)Core6,005
Public Health and Health LegislationCompulsory6,005
Special Medical-Surgical Theory (A)Core4,003
OptionalOptional4,00--
Subtotal: 30,00 21


Optional subjects



Degree in Physiotherapy (5 yrs)

Programa de Asignaturas



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Annual subject (A)
1360 - Structure and Function of the Human Body (A) back

Core; 9,00 ECTS/semester; 6 Hs per week

Description:
FIRST FOUR-MONTH PERIOD.
1.-MAKEUP OF THE HUMAN BODY.
2.- GENERAL HUMAN EMBRIOLOGY.
3.- GENERAL HISTOLOGY.
4.- GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE SKELETAL MUSCLE.
5.- ARTOLOGY.
6.- UPPER LIMB.
7.- LOWER LIMB.
8.- TORSO AND NECK.
9 AND 10.- HEAD AND ABDOMEN.
11.- RESPIRATION MUSCLES.
12.- PELVIC FLOOR.

SECOND FOUR-MONTH PERIOD.
13, 14 AND 15.- CENTRAL, PERIPHEARAL AND AUTONOMOUS NERVOUS SYSTEM.
16 AND 17.- MOTOR AND SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM.
18.- SLEEP CYCLE AND WAKEFULNESS.
19.- SPECIAL SENSITIVITY.
20.- COMPLEX FUNCTIONS.
21. CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM.
22. RESPIRATORY SYSTEM.
23.- UROGENITAL SYSTEM.
24.- BLOOD.
25.- ENDOCRINE GLANDS.
26.- DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.

Co-ordinator: María Rosa Alonso Melero

1361 - General Physiotherapy (A) back

Core; 11,00 ECTS/semester; 8 Hs per week

Description:
The aim of this subject consists on giving the student the necessary knowledge to understand how the different physical agents act in the human being. This subject revolves around kinesitherapy, masotherapy, electrotherapeutic procedures, vibrotherapy, thermotherapy, cryotherapy, phototherapy and hydrotherapy.Besides the pupil must know different muscles and joints testing and the Goniometry of the musculoskeletal system.

BIBLIOGRAFIA:

-Kacpandji, I.A. : Cuadernos de fisiología articular. Ed. masson.

-Genot, C. Neiger :" Kinesiología" . Ed.Panamericana.

-Kendall's: " Músculos, pruebas funcionales y dolor postural " (2000).Ed. Masson.

-Delisa, J.A.: " Rehabilitation Medicine.Principles and practice". Ed.Lippincott.

-Rodriguez Martín :"Electroterapia en Fisioterapia" (2000). Ed. panamericana .

Co-ordinator: Antonio López Román

2360 - Clinical Practice I (A) back

Core; 7,00 ECTS/semester; 4 Hs per week

Description:
This subject provides the student with the opportunity to observe how a proffesional phisioterapist work taking into a count the processes of :Evaluation,goal setting,treatment planning,treatment management and assesment of effectiveness of phisiotherapical intervention and also the importance of the interproffesional comunication. Students will be able to get in touch with patients and use all the tools of the different therapeutic areas correctly. They will initiate in the knowledge of the most common illnesses and will know how to apply the most common techniques and put them into practice in the usual illnesses.

Co-ordinator: Eva María Rodríguez González

2361 - General Medical-Surgical Theory and Locomotive System (A) back

Core; 4,00 ECTS/semester; 4 Hs per week

Description:
This subject puts forward in a systematic way the general characteristics of becoming ill and its consequences; specially medical - surgical illnesses and syndromes that affect the motor, respiratory and peripheral vascular systems. This subject studies the nature, characteristics ,apreciation and therapy of these systems from a general or basic point of view and, specially, from the point of view of the physiotherapical praxis.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

-Harrison: "Principios de Medicina interna .Compendio" Ed.Mac Graw Hill.

-Klaus Buckup: "Pruebas clínicas para patología ósea, articular y muscular". Ed. Masson.

-Mc Rae: "Tratamiento práctico de fracturas".

-Gonzalez Mas , R.: "Rehabilitación médica". Ed. Masson

-Yves Xhardez : "vademecum de Kinesioterapìa y Reeducación Funcional". Ed. El Ateneo.

-Rouviére H. y Delmas A.: "Anatomia humana descriptiva y funcional". 3 tomos, Ed.Masson. 10ª edicion, 1999.

-Guyton Hall : "Tratado de Fisiología médica". Ed. Mc Graw Hill-Interamericana. 9ª edición.1996.

-Mark F.B., barry W. C. y Michael A. Paradiso: "NEUROCIENCIA" Ed. Masson 1998.

Co-ordinator: Manuel de la Fuente González

2362 - Physiotherapeutic Methodology (A) back

Core; 11,00 ECTS/semester; 8 Hs per week

Description:
The goal of this subject is to give the student the necessary knowledge for the correct implementation of the physiotherapy treatment in pathologies of the motor system, of disabled people and of the respiratory system. For this reason, the different lessons of this subject include specific techniques and methods of physiotherapy actions and their use in different pathologies and for the preservation of the health.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

-Neiger, H. : "Los vendajes funcionales". Ed. Masson.

-Gonzalez Mas , R. : "Rehabilitación médica".

-Charriere : "Cinesiterapia de la sdesviaciones laterales del raquis ". Ed. Masson.

-Esnault, M. : "Estiramientos analíticos en fuisioterapia activa" Ed. Masson.

-Cáceres E. y San Martí. Secot/Ser: "Monografías médico-quirúrgicas del aparato locomotor: " Lumbalgia y lumbociatalgia".

-Vazquez Gallego y Expósito M. " El Drenaje Linfático manual"

-Donatelli :" Fisioterapia del hombro". Ed. Diaz Santos.

Co-ordinator: Juan Ignacio Orellana Hoyo

3360 - Clinical Practice II (A) back

Core; 6,00 ECTS/semester; 5 Hs per week

Description:
During the development of this subject, students will learn the systematic techniques of treatment . They will know the great syndromes that may be invalidated. They will familiarize with the physiotherapy treatment of the different pathologies that affect the motor and sensorial system. They will also understand the possibilities and limits of Physiotherapy through the experience in evaluation,treatment planning and aplication of phisiotherapical procedures in a supervised clinical enviroment.

Co-ordinator: Eva María Rodríguez González

3361 - Special Medical-Surgical Theory (A) back

Core; 4,00 ECTS/semester; 3 Hs per week

Description:
The subject seeks to introduce to the student the knowledge of the physiotherapy techniques used in the treatment of neurological, respiratory, cardiovascular and obstetricy, dermatological and genitourinary diseases, as well as the knowledge of Balneotherapy.

BIBLIOGRAFIA:

-Harrison : "Principios de medicina interna ". Ed. Mc graw Hill.

-Schwartz:"Principios de cirugía" Ed. Mc Graw Hill Interamerican.

-Pedrosa: "Diagnóstico por imagen" Ed. Mc Graw Hill Interamericana.

-Barr: "El sistema nervioso humano" .Ed.Mc Graw Hill Interamericana.

-Merck: "El manual Merck.Doyma.


Co-ordinator: Elena Jiménez Herranz

3362 - Special Physiotherapy (A) back

Core; 10,00 ECTS/semester; 8 Hs per week

Description:
The aims of this subject are the diagnosis and treatment of the different pathologies that may appear in the daily clinical career revolving neurologica (Hemiplegia, PCl, Alzheimer, Parkinson, ELA...) respiratory, cardiovascular and obstetricy, dermatological and genitourinary diseases, , specially the identification of causes and symptoms in which a physiotherapical approach and traetment could be given ( Bobath concept, Vojta, Perfetti method...)

BIBLIOGRAFIA:

-Bobath: "Actividad postural refleja anormal por lesiones cerebrales ".Ed.Panamericana.

-Vojta : "Alteraciones motoras cerebrales infantiles".ATAM.

-Ratheke, Knupfer: "El niño espástico" Ed. Espaxs.

-Chanussot J.C.: "Kinesioterapia respiratoria". Ed. Masson.

-Bobath : "Hemiplejía del adulto. Evaluación y tratamiento" Ed. panamericana.

-Sttopard M. :"Las primeras semanas de la vida"Ed. Interamericana.

Co-ordinator: María Dolores Molinero Atienza

First semester
1111 - Applied Psychosocial Science back

Core; 6,00 ECTS; 4 Hs per week

Description:
This subject tries to make that students of Physiotherapy make use of the basic knowledge of the psychology of health, instructing them in the different disorders and illnesses where a cause or factor of psychological risk underlie and that professional physiotherapists could treat them. For that reason a knowledge of the human behaviour will be necessary to control disruptive behavioural situations of the clinical practice throughout their professional career.



BIBLIOGRAFIA:

-Llor, B. (1996) Ciencias psicosociales aplicadas al ámbito de la salud.
México:Mc Graw Hill Interamericana.

-Pichot, P. (1998).manual diagnóstico y estadístico de los trastornos mentales.
Barcelona : Masson , S.A.

-Ridruejo Alonso, P. (1996). Psicologia médica , psicopatología y psiquiatría.Mc Graw Hill interamericana.

-Vazquez y Fuentenebro. (1990) Psicología médica, psicopatología y psiquiatría.Mc Graw Hill. Vol I y II.

-Penzo W. (1989) El dolor crónico. Barcelona. Martínez Roca Salud 2000.

Co-ordinator: Andrés Ignacio García Notario

2363 - Methodological Motor Functions back

Compulsory; 8,00 ECTS; 4 Hs per week

Description:
This subject revolves around sensitive and motor development of the child , elderly motricity , knowledge of every way of sensitive afferences that may cause a motor act, development of walking and relatives stages besides its study technics and aplications, biomecanic of the upper and lower limbs and its articular phisiology.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

-Karel Bobath: "Base neurofisiológica para el tratamiento de la Parálisis Cerebral". Ed. Panamericana.

- Berta Bobath , Karel Bobath : " Desarrollo motor en los distintos tipos de Parálisis Cerebarl". Ed. Panamericana.

-Vaclav Vojta : " Alteraciones motoras cerebrales infantiles (diagnóstico y tratamiento precoz). Funndación Paidea.

-Ducroquet : " Marcha normal y patológica " . Ed. Toray Masson.

-Varney Le Veau : "Biomecánica del movimiento humano" . Ed. Trillas, S.A. de C. V. .

-Mario Comín ,Jaime Prat : "Biomecánica del Raquis y sistemas de reparación ". Instituto de biomecánica de Valencia.

Co-ordinator: Antonio López Román

3363 - Special Motor Functions back

Compulsory; 6,00 ECTS; 4 Hs per week

Description:
THEORY
PART I: CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
PART II: BIOMECHANICS AND PATHOMECHANICS OF THE BACKBONE AND POSTURE
PART III: MOTOR FUNCTIONS, PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND SPORT

PRACTICAL TRAINING
1st practice: Techniques of rest and relaxation
2nd practice: Basic neurological assessment.
3rd practice: Assessment of coordination alterations: Posturography I
4rd practice: Assessment of balance alterations: Posturography II
5th practice: Backbone examination.
6th practice: Assessment of muscular balance. Isokinetic techniques (I)
7th practice: Assessment of muscular balance. Isokinetic techniques (II)

Co-ordinator: África López Illescas

Second semester
1362 - General Motor Functions back

Compulsory; 6,00 ECTS; 4 Hs per week

Description:
Acknowledge of the basis of Motricity; global view of the structures of the human body that participate in movement.How the body acquires,stores and utilizes energy is discussed,as well as the function of major organ systems during exercise; study of the different steps of the motor act: cerebral stage, medullar stage, nervous stage, muscular stage and articular stage.


*BIBLIOGRAFIA:

-Bárbara A. Gowitzke, M.Milner : "El cuerpo y sus movimientos.Bases Científicas". Ed .Paidotribo, Barcelona .1999.

-Sona V.Biswas, Rehana Igbal :"Lo esencial en el sistema musculoesquelético.Cursos Crash de Mosby". Ed.Harcourt Brace Madrid 1998.

-Kottke, Stillwell, Lehmann.:"Krusen.Medicina Física y Rehabilitación". Ed. Medica Panamericana.

Co-ordinator: África López Illescas

2364 - Writing and Speaking Skills back

Compulsory; 4,00 ECTS; 3 Hs per week

Description:
Differences among aspects related to oral and written expression. Perfectioning in written expression. Acquisition of reading and writing habits. Acquisition and put into practice of oral expression techniques.Knowledge of the different kind of texts .

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

-Seco Manuel : "Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española" .Madrid. Ed. Aguilar.

-Moliner María : "Diccionario de uso del español " .Ed. Gredos.

-Bados López Arturo: "Hablar en público :Guía práctica para lograr habilidad y confianza".Ed. Pirámide.

Co-ordinator: José Ramón Trujillo Martínez

3364 - Public Health and Health Legislation back

Compulsory; 6,00 ECTS; 5 Hs per week

Description:
This subject revolves around fundamental concepts of Health. It discuses the study of Health systems as well as the assistance levels. It studies Epidemiology, Physiotherapy in the state of health and its function in sanitary education. Finally, this subject give full details of profesional regulations.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

-Martínez Navarro F. :"Salud Pública" . Ed. Mc Graw Hill.

-Martín Zurro A. : "Atención primaria" Ed.Mosby.

-S.H. Woolf. Williams and wilkins :"Health promotion and disease prevention in clinical practice".

-"Oxford Textbook of Public Health" Detels ed. Oxford University Press .

Co-ordinator: Juan Martínez Hernández