Include in your approach the most prominent advances in the care and attention of patients with pain from a rehabilitation medicine perspective”

Achieve or maintain an appropriate quality of life for geriatric patients by managing their pain in a way that allows sufferers to experience the wellbeing they need. In this sense, rehabilitation medicine is a highly interesting way to achieve this.

To do this, professionals must assess and explore the patient's resistance and physiological reserves in order to establish the appropriate framework for action, home care, residential care, day care centers, social centers or private clinics.

This work should include treatments for pre-frailty, frailty, pain, trauma, neurological, respiratory and/or pelvic floor disorders, gerontological syndromes or cognitive impairment, side effects of drugs and/or biopsychosocial conditions that may complicate the clinical picture.

It is therefore essential to know the tools of physiotherapy and the appropriateness of its application in each case, such as active exercise, manual therapy, electrotherapy being able to work in interdisciplinary team, with appropriate communication tools; understanding the concept of person-centered care, having the most up-to-date knowledge of support devices and even the support of current technology can be key to success in physiotherapy treatment.

Learn from your own computer, the latest advances and developments in the approach to pain caused by aging and its common pathologies”

This postgraduate diploma in Pain and Aging in Rehabilitation Medicine contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Geriatric Rehabilitation Medicine
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

A system created to enhance your learning with the convenience of a program which can be adapted to your pace and current study needs”

The program includes, in its teaching staff, professionals from the sector who bring to this program the experience of their work, in addition to recognized specialists from prestigious reference societies and universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide professionals with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive training, designed for training oneself in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

A dynamic and effective program that will take students through a high-intensity professional development for your professional capacity"

Using the most efficient audiovisual systems, this postgraduate diploma will allow students to learn through direct and realistic observation"

Designed to bring about change in the work capacity of the professionals who take it, this postgraduate diploma offers the most up-to-date knowledge on Pain and Aging in Rehabilitation Medicine. The objective is to provide the student with specialized knowledge by creating a well-structured foundation to identify the clinical signs associated with the different needs and developments, providing a broad and contextual view of the activity in this field today.

A fully comprehensive and up-to-date postgraduate diploma, created with the most advanced study methods, to transform knowledge into effective intervention skills”

General Objective

• Develop a critical and reasoned attitude, based on the most recent scientific evidence, towards the physiotherapeutic diagnosis in elderly patients and be able to apply adequate treatment in order to reduce functional impotence, frailty and deterioration, therefore favoring an improvement to physical and mental health in old age

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Clinical Reasoning in Physiogeriatrics

• Explain active aging from the patient’s point of view
• Define the fields of action of physiotherapy in geriatrics
• Define the role of Physiotherapy in palliative care units
• Define the use of new technologies in Physiogeriatrics
• Explain what interdisciplinary teams in geriatrics consist of
• Define the composition and functioning of the interdisciplinary team
• Explain the main functions within the interdisciplinary team
• Establish the differential diagnosis: “Red and Yellow Flags”
• Describe the major geriatric syndromes
• Explain what “Red and Yellow Flags” consist of
• Define the most common “Red flags” in clinical practice
• Explain the proper approach to the physical therapy session in geriatrics
• Describe the physiotherapeutic examination and assessment of the geriatric patient
• Define the effects on the neuromusculoskeletal system of certain drugs

Module 2. Person-Centered Care (PCA)

• Describe the decalogue of person-centered care
• Explain the process of transformation from a service model to a PCA model
• Explain the provision of physical therapy services in an ACP model

Module 3. Pain and aging developments according to current scientific evidence

• Explain the anatomy and physiology of pain transmission
• Define the different types of pain
• Describing pain and aging from a biopsychosocial paradigm
• Define the different pain syndromes in geriatrics
• Explain how to perform a proper pain assessment
• Explain the pharmacological treatment of pain in the geriatric patient
• Explain the physiotherapeutic treatment of the geriatric patient

Take the opportunity to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in Pain and Aging in Rehabilitation Medicine”