The most extensive knowledge in phytotherapy of the locomotor system conditions with the security of the latest scientific evidence, in a training created for pharmacy staff"

There is now a scientific basis supporting the efficacy of many phytotherapeutic products for certain indications. The place that phytotherapy should occupy in therapeutics should be that for which it has demonstrated its usefulness and safety.

Efficacy is achieved only with the proper use of phytotherapeutic preparations, both in terms of indications and form of administration.

This program offers a current vision of Phytotherapy and its application in the health field, including the latest contributions and advances. The contents are guaranteed by the teaching staff involved in the Expert, since in one way or another they all work in the field of phytotherapy or are related to it. Thus, the student will learn based on the experience of the teachers and experience evidence-based medicine, which results in training the student to be more effective and accurate. On the one hand, the different university training programs generally suffer from a deep and profound lack of continuously updated training in Phytotherapy, and on the other hand that current health trends are leaning towards the use of safe and effective natural remedies, it is necessary to be able to offer the student the possibility of expanding their knowledge and therapeutic skills with a greater specialization in the use of medicinal plants, from the professional and academic perspective necessary to adequately face their future in this field.

Increase your skills in the Phytotherapy approach to locomotor system disorders through this program"

This Postgraduate diploma offers you the characteristics of a high level scientific, teaching and technological course. These are some of its most notable features:

• Latest technology in online teaching software
• Highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Self-regulating learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

Include phytotherapy among your tools and improve patient care with new ways and alternatives for treatment and prevention"

Our teaching staff is made up of practicing specialists. In this way, we ensure that we provide you with the training update we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of doctors trained and experienced in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will put at the service of the course the practical knowledge derived from their own experience: one of the differential qualities of this training.

This mastery of the subject matter is complemented by the effectiveness of this expert's methodological design. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your training. 

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice:  with the help of an innovative interactive video system, and learning from an expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way.

With a methodological design based on proven teaching techniques, this Expert will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way"

Our innovative telepractice concept will give you the opportunity to learn through an immersive experience, which will provide you with a faster integration and a much more realistic view of the contents: “learning from an expert”

The contents have been developed by the different experts of this course, with a clear purpose: to ensure that our students acquire each and every one of the skills necessary to become true specialists in this field. 

A development of knowledge and techniques of phytotherapy in the field of locomotor system disorders, essential for the pharmacist, created to enable him/her to provide a high quality intervention"

Module 1. Phytotherapy and Herbal Medicines

1.1. Phytotherapy: Definition and Scope of Application
1.2. Botanical Nomenclature and the Citation of Species in Phytotherapy
1.3. Current Classification of Plant Groups
1.4. Legislation and Registration of Herbal Medicines in Spain
1.5. Regulation of the European Market for Medicinal Herbal Preparations: Legal Regulations and Scope of Application
1.6. Cultivation, Collection, Processing and Preservation of Medicinal Plants
1.7. Plant-Based Drugs: Impact of Drug Recognition on the Quality of Phytotherapeutic Products
1.8. Mushrooms with Medicinal Utility

Module 2. Active Ingredients of the Plants, Pharmaceutical Forms and Galenic Preparations

2.1. Active Ingredients: Main Groups and Properties, as a Basis that Justifies the use of Phytotherapy
2.2. Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Sulfocyanogenetic Heterosides and their Therapeutic Application
2.3. Simple Phenols, Coumarins and Lignans and their therapeutic application
2.4. Flavonoids and their Therapeutic Application
2.5. Tannins and Quinones and their Application
2.6. Isoprenoids, Saponins and Cardiotonic Heterosides and their Application
2.7. Resins and their Application
2.8. Alkaloids and their Application
2.9. Magistral Formulation in Phytotherapy
2.10. Other Pharmaceutical Forms in Phytotherapy
2.11. Industrial Processing of Herbal Medicines

Module 3. Phytotherapy for Disorders of the Locomotor System

3.1. Phytotherapy in Arthritis
3.2. Phytotherapy in Arthrosis
3.3. Phytotherapy for Joint Pain: Anti-Inflammatory and Analgesic
3.4. Medicinal Plants Muscle Relaxants for the Treatment of Muscle Contractions
3.5. Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Rheumatism
3.6. Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Gout: Uricosuric Plants
3.7. Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Sarcopenia
3.8. Remineralizing Medicinal Plants

A comprehensive teaching program, structured in well-developed teaching units, oriented toward a high impact learning and training"