99990 - INTERPRETAZIONE DEI MECCANISMI DEL DOLORE

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)

Learning outcomes

  • To provide the basic skills for clinical reasoning based on interpretation of patient pain experience
  • To assess the patient pain experience with regard to the personal health condition
  • To plan the most appropriate therapeutic strategies related to patient pain experience

Course contents

  • Neurophysiological mechanisms and neuroscience of pain
  • Theoretical models for clinical interpretation of pain mechanisms
  • Outcome measures for clinical interpretation of pain
  • Case studies

Readings/Bibliography

  • Slides
  • Reference scientific literature provided by the lecturer

Teaching methods

  • In presence lecture

Assessment methods

  • Multiple choice quiz, with specific feedback on the correct answer at the end of the quiz.
  • The course is passed with registration of attendance and completion of the quiz.

Teaching tools

  • Multimedia materials provided during classes

Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Turolla

SDGs

Good health and well-being Quality education Gender equality Industry, innovation and infrastructure

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.