CODE 67076 ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026 CREDITS 3 cfu anno 3 TECNICHE ORTOPEDICHE 9297 (L/SNT3) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/50 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 2° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: APPLIED TECHNIQUES IV TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB AIMS AND CONTENT AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES Provide students with the basic notions regarding the definition of orthosis/prosthesis and its characteristics Pay attention to biomechanics when building orthosis Introduce issues relating to hygiene, storage, construction of thermoplastic material Develop in students the ability to conceive/create a guardian based on charactheristics of patient At the end of the course, the student will be able to: Recognize the differences between upper limb pathologies, in relation to the proposed prosthesis; Recognize what patient’s need an choosing in the packaging/proposal of most suitable orthosis for the patology TEACHING METHODS interactive frontal lesson, exercise in samll groups to simoulate the construction of orthosis, Compilation of learning questionnaries by theme of the individual lesson SYLLABUS/CONTENT common characteristics definition orthosis for upper limb,specifically of various district such as shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand-finger complex use and conservation in the preventive and post surgical phase note of prosthesis and their differnces construction of static braces un thermoplastic material RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Di Bartoli S., “ Mano e polso. Ortesi statiche e dinamiche”, Edi Ermes 2011 Cavallari G., “ Amputazione, protesi e riabilitazione”, Edi Ermes 2011 LESSONS LESSONS START Marzo 2020 Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION oral exam ASSESSMENT METHODS Check the building skills, general skills of characteristics of the orthoses and verification of knowledge on the type of orthosis suitable best for patient Check if the student has understood the methods of using orthosis