Guia docente 2023_24
Facultade de Fisioterapia
Grado en Fisioterapia
 Subjects
  General physiotherapy I
Subject Guide
IDENTIFYING DATA 2023_24
Subject General physiotherapy I Code P05G171V01204
Study programme
Grado en Fisioterapia
Descriptors Total Cr. Choose Year Quadmester
9 Mandatory 2nd 1st
Teaching language
Spanish
Galician
Prerequisites
Department
Coordinator
Rodríguez Fuentes, Gustavo
E-mail gfuentes@uvigo.es
Lecturers
Abalo Núñez, María del Rocío
Rodríguez Fuentes, Gustavo
Soto González, María Mercedes
Web http://http://gfuentes.webs.uvigo.es/
General description This is a compulsory subject in the second year of the Physiotherapy Degree (taught in the first four-month period). It studies the therapeutic use of massage therapy (both classical and some of its specific modalities), thermotherapy and hydrotherapy.
Due to its contents, it is important to have previous knowledge of anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and palpatory anatomy. and palpatory anatomy. In addition, its framework within the degree programme serves at the same time to generate in the students, together with the other subjects of the course, the following students, together with the other subjects on basic general and specific knowledge of physiotherapy, a basis that facilitates Physiotherapy, a base that facilitates the development of the subjects called in the syllabus as "Physiotherapy in Clinical Specialities" and "Clinical Stays", in the third and fourth years, and which involve the interrelation of the knowledge of interrelation of basic and specific assessment and treatment knowledge used within the arsenal of a physiotherapist to treat specific pathological processes within each clinical speciality: traumatology, rheumatology, orthopaedics, peripheral neurology, genitourinary...
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