- Docente: Massimiliano Mosca
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/33
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Orthopaedics techniques (cod. 8483)
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the student has acquired the basic knowledge on the main diseases of the knee. The student is able to learn the diagnostic methods of these diseases, the main conservative and surgical treatment options, the principles of diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of knee joint injuries.
Course contents
TRAUMA OF SPORT
Meniscal injuries:
- Etiology, classification, clinical and instrumental diagnosis, therapeutic approach, postoperative protocol.
INJURY FRONT HITCH CRUSADER:
- Etiology, classification, clinical and instrumental diagnosis, therapeutic approach, postoperative protocol.
INJURY posterior cruciate ligament:
- Etiology, classification, clinical and instrumental diagnosis, therapeutic approach, postoperative protocol.
INJURY medial collateral ligaments AND SIDE
- Etiology, classification, clinical and instrumental diagnosis, therapeutic approach, postoperative protocol.
INJURY CURTAINS PATELLAR:
- Etiology, classification, clinical and instrumental diagnosis, therapeutic approach, postoperative protocol.
CARTILAGE
Anatomy and physiology
Cartilage lesions:
- Etiology, clinical algorithm of conservative and surgical treatment
CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT: physical therapy and infiltrative (hyaluronic acid, PRP, stem)
SURGICAL TECHNIQUES: reparative, restorative, regenerative
ARTHROSIS
Definition, Classification, Epidemiology, Clinical Diagnostics.
CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT: directions and principles
SURGICAL TREATMENT: hints of osteotomies and prosthetic replacement
Readings/Bibliography
Manuale di Ortopedia e Traumatologia
Autori: Giannini - Faldini
Edizioni: Minerva Medica
Volume: Unico
Teaching methods
Lectures with slides.
Assessment methods
Oral and/or Written Text examination.
Teaching tools
Slides.
Office hours
See the website of Massimiliano Mosca