In this subject, specific contents of the field of Physiotherapy are collected in order for students to acquire an eclectic vision of the various methods and techniques for diagnosis and therapeutics proposed by various schools and authors in the field of manual therapies.
Manual therapies as a whole, including osteopathy, constitute a wide collection of clinical intervention procedures aimed at the detection and treatment of biomechanical alterations that affect the musculoskeletal system and in which the greatest symptom is pain.
The paradigm that frames these procedures is articulated around a holistic view of bodily function, in the existence of a mutual relationship between body structure and function mediated by the central nervous system, and in the interpretation of back pain within a biopsychosocial model.
The student must know the theoretical foundations of The student must know the theoretical foundations of the different methods and techniques and their field of application in the clinic, in addition to acquiring the psychomotor skills necessary to execute, with professional precision, the manual interventions necessary to be able to effectively test this modality of therapy. It must effectively manage the process of evaluation and functional diagnosis that precedes manipulative therapy, therapeutic methods, its scientific and neurophysiological foundation, the phases of execution and application of manipulations in all its variants, mastering a number of selected techniques that allow it to address most of the disorders of the musculoskeletal system that are likely to benefit from this therapeutic modality.
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