Osteopathy Applied to Sport

Métodos de ensino

The course is semi-annual and consists of lectures, theoretical-practical and laboratory practices. Will use the expositor methods, interrogative and active, using the analysis of case studies to better assimilation of content worked. Use It will also demonstrative method, in which the faculty performs the technical and trains every student in the correct application and proper interpretation of them, emphasizing the implementation of assessment and osteopathic intervention by the students tasks. Continuous assessment strategies and the final evaluation will be used. The final assessment will result from the completion of a written test about the theoretical concepts and the fundamentals of the practical component and a practical assessment covering the implementation of diagnostic techniques and Osteopathy studied. The final classification results as follows: written work (20%), written test 50% and practical test 30%.

Objetivos de Unidade Curricular

˗        Identifying the skills, principles and fundamentals of action Osteopath in sports context; properly use appropriate

˗        assessment tools;

˗        Know, evaluate and intervene in key pathologies associated with sport;

˗        Evaluate the technical gesture associated with different sports and outline strategies to return activity;

˗        Develop and recognize the importance of communication strategies with other agents in sport;

˗        Explain coherently the underlying clinical reasoning;

˗        Mechanism of action and physiological effects of osteopathic techniques correctly executed;

-        Execute different types of osteopathic techniques used in sports pathology, enumerating its indications and contraindications.

Estagios

Nao

Programa

- Principles, fundamentals and clinical reasoning in osteopathy applied to sport;
- Paper Osteopath in sport;
- Osteopathic approach in different ways;
- The dichotomy of intervention in the cause of the problem / intervention in symptoms;
- Assessment and evaluation tools;
- Differential diagnosis;
- Diagnosis and decision osteopathic intervention in sport;
- Most common disease in the sport: pubalgy, sprains,
spinal pain, tendinopathy and dislocations;
- Compensation and relationship of the lesion with the technical gesture;
- Optimization of technical gesture and musculoskeletal harmony;
- Osteopathic intervention in the most common sports pathologies: structural techniques, muscle and fascial physical recovery: the importance of cranial sacral intervention, cranial, visceral and ATM;
- Communication with the various professionals who deal with the athlete;
- Return to sporting activity – return to play;
- Indications and contraindications of Osteopathy in sport;
- Discussion of clinical cases.

Métodos de Avaliação

Continuous Evaluation

Frequency: 50.0%

Pratical Assessment: 30.0%

Work Group: 20.0%

Exam Evaluation

Theorical Exam: 100.0%

Itens Bibliograficos

Docente responsável

Márcio Luís Pinto Domingues