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University of Padova (Italy)
Degree Course in Physiotherapy
STANDARD PROGRAM
Professor/Lecturer:
Teaching: Human Anatomy and Medical Statistics
ECTS: 10
lessons hours: 100 homework hours:
Prerequisites
Knowledge
and
learning targets
None
skills
HUMAN ANATOMY AND MEDICAL STATISTICS (6 ECTS):
Students will achieve knowledge about:
- general organization of human body;
- basis of head, trunk and limbs’ vascularization;
- morphological and functional characteristics of musculoskeletal system;
- anatomy of central and peripheral nervous systems; knowledge of the
main nerve routes and centres.
MEDICAL STATISTICS (4 ECTS):
Students will achieve knowledge about basic competence to recognize
which operative and organizational requirements Physiotherapy profession
needs; students will be able to:
- Produce statistics;
- Recognize models of epidemiologic research that are used to
estimate disease’s diffusion and to assess potential risk’s factors;
- Process statistics with elementary descriptive methods;
- Recognize basis of probability calculation and assess its limits and
potentialities in medical field;
- Understand basis of statistic inference.
Assessment mode
Evaluation criteria
Contents
They will be indicated by the teacher at the beginning of the course
They will be indicated by the teacher at the beginning of the course
HUMAN ANATOMY AND MEDICAL STATISTICS (6 ECTS):
Human Anatomy
In general: organs and systems. Position and movement’s anatomic
vocabulary.
Cardiovascular system:
Pulmonary and systemic circulation. Aorta: course, collateral branches and
ending. Main vessels of head, neck, thorax, abdomen, upper and lower
limbs.
Musculoskeletal system:
In general: skeleton and fixed and mobile joints. Skeleton muscles’ shape
and structure; tendons and insertion’s aponeurosis, fasciae, bursas, tendon
sheaths.
Trunk:
- Vertebral column: vertebra and vertebral joints’ shape.
- Rib cage: ribs, sternum, rib vertebral and sternocostal joints.
- Pelvis: hip bone’s shape, sacroiliac joint and pubic symphysis. Pelvis
in general.
- Trunk’s muscles and fasciae. Spine’s muscles: general presentation.
Neck muscles: general presentation of suprahyoid and infrahyoid
muscles and neck’s fasciae; insertions and actions of
sternocleidomastoid and scalene muscles.
Thorax muscles: general presentation of thorax’s intrinsic muscles;
insertions, relations and actions of diaphragm. Basis of mechanical
breathing.
Abdomen muscles: shape of following muscles: rectus abdominis,
internal and external oblique muscles , transversus abdominis;
inguinal canal. Quadratus lumborum, maior and minor psoas.
Abdominal
muscles’
function.
Trunk’s
movements.
General presentation of pelvic floor: pelvic diaphragm, urogenital
diaphragm and anal region.
Head: general presentation of skull. Temporomandibular joint:
shape and movements. Shape of masticatory muscles.
Upper limb:
- General presentation of skeleton. Shoulder girdle and homerus;
sternoclavicular joint, acromioclavicular joint and glenohumeral
joint. Movements of shoulder girdle and shoulder.
- Motor muscles of shoulder girdle and shoulder: trapezius, levator
scapulae, serratus anterior, rhomboidis, pectoralis minor,
subclavius, deltoid, pectoralis maior, subscapularis, supraspinatus,
infraspinatus, teres minor, teres maior, latissimus dorsi.
- Radius, ulna; elbow joint and distal radioulnar joint. Elbow’s
movements and pronation and supination.
- Arm’s muscles: biceps brachii, coracobrachialis, brachialis, triceps
brachii, anconeus.
- Carpus in general, metacarpus and phalanxes. Radiocarpal joint,
mediocarpal
joint,
trapeziometacarpal
joint,
carpometacarpal joints,
metacarpophalangeal
joints
and
interphalangeal joints. Movements of elbow and fingers. Basis of
hand’s architecture.
- Forearm’s muscles: pronator teres, flexor carpi radialis, palmaris
longus, flexor carpi ulnaris, flexor digitorum superficialis, flexor
pollicis longus, flexor digitorum profundus, pronator quadratus,
brachioradialis, extensor carpi radialis longus, extensor carpi
radialis brevis, extensor digitorum, extensor digiti minimi, extensor
carpi ulnaris, supinator, abductor pollicis longus, extensor pollicis
brevis, extensor pollicis longus, extensor indicis. Tendon sheaths
and retinacula.
- Intrinsic hand’s muscles: palmar aponeurosis and loggias; lumbrical
and interossei muscles, thenar and ipothenar and hypothenar
muscles.
Lower limb:
- General presentation of skeleton. Femur and coxofemoral joint;
thigh movements.
- Motor muscles of coxofemoral joint: iliopsoas, gluteus maximus
muscle, tensor fasciae latae, gluteus medius muscle, gluteus
minimus muscle, piriformis, obturator internus, obturator
externus, inferior gemellus, superior gemellus, quadratus femoris,
sartorius, quadriceps femoris, pectineus, adductor longus, gracilis,
adductor
brevis,
adductor
magnus,
biceps
femoris,
semitendinosus, semimembranosus.
- Tibia, fibula and patella; knee’s joint, proximal and distal
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tibiofibular joints. Leg’s movements.
Tarsus in general, metatarsus and phalanxes; ankle joint, talo-crural
joint, subtalar joint, joint between astragalus talus and scaphoid,
midtarsal
joint
(Chopart),
tarsometatarsal
joints,
metatarsophalangeal joints, interphalangeal joints. Plantar arch’s
configuration. Foot’s movements.
Leg’s muscles: tibialis anterior, extensor digitorum longus, fibularis
anterior, extensor hallucis longus, fibularis longus, fibularis brevis,
popliteus, triceps surae, flexor digitorum longus, tibialis posterior,
flexor hallucis longus. Tendon sheaths and retinacula.
Intrinsic foot’s muscles: extensor digitorum brevis, plantar
aponeurosis and plantar loggias, muscles of medial, lateral and
central plantar loggias, lumbrical and interossei muscles.
Nervous system Anatomy
Embryology’s basis of nervous system.
General organization of nervous system.
Central nervous system Anatomy:
Basis of structural and macroscopic aspects of brain and spinal cord.
Meninges and basis of vascularization. Main sensitive and motor routes.
Autonomic nervous system anatomy: general organization; allocation and
connection of sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglions.
Peripheral nervous system Anatomy:
Spinal nerves in general. Generation of plexuses’ method; course and
landmarks, distribution’s area of collateral and ending branches. Cranial
nerves in general. Fibers’ generation and distribution’s area.
STATISTICS AND EPIDEMIPLOGY (4 ECTS):
Health professions and statistics.
Statistics’ production process: definition of statistics unity’s and
population; different kinds of variables.
Statistics’ description: frequency’s distribution, tables and diagrams.
Diffusion’s measurements: relationship, proportion and rates, prevalence
and incidence.
Main epidemiological models of investigation: transversal studies,
retrospective case-control studies, longitudinal studies, experimental
studies.
Prevalence and incidence. Risks’ measurement: relative risk and odds-ratio.
Central tendency’s measurement and variability: mode, median, quartiles
and percentiles, arithmetic mean; range, interquartile range, standard
deviation, variation’s coefficient.
Probability and casual variables: operations on events, conditioned
probability, normal distribution and standardized normal, Binomial
distribution and Poisson distribution.
Population and sample: meaning of statistic inference.
Distribution of sample mean: central statistic theorem; standard error.
Estimation of population mean using confidence range.
Calculation of sample’s dimension to estimate a mean.
Estimation of population’s proportion using confidence range.
Calculation of sample’s dimension to estimate a proportion.
Hypothesis test’s logic: null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis, level of
significance and power of a test; inference with one sample in quantitative
and qualitative statistics; results’ interpretation.
Planned learning activities They will be indicated by the teacher at the beginning of the course
and teaching methods
Further guidance on study They will be indicated by the teacher at the beginning of the course
materials
References
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