Academic Offerings: Undergraduate

Physiotherapy

The course provides qualifications in the biological and clinical disciplines that represent the cultural background of the science of rehabilitation, and supplies the abilities requested for an employment as a professional physiotherapist. This result is achieved by defining specific educational objectives that are pursued either by lessons from the chair or by professional education. The study course allows the comprehension of the diseases that will form the object of rehabilitation in children, adults and in the elderly.

A professional physiotherapist should be able to: perform the functional assessment of the patient; define the rehabilitation program; carry on independently the therapeutic activity aimed at overcoming disability; choose the appropriate splints or prostheses; check continuously if the rehabilitation method selected is adequate to the functional recovery expected; carry on scientific research.