Sport's Neurology

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

There are theorical lessons in the classroom, and teaching in groups (depending on the number of students), performing tasks or solving problems or cases or making neurological examination in some patients.

Learning Outcomes

1. To know the anatomy-physiological bases of the nervous system and the main steps of the neurological exam.

2. To know the main nosological frames of neurology

3. To identify neurological diseases that require special care in sport.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Neuroanatomy of movement Anatomophysiologic basis:

a. Inferior level (spinal cord and peripheral nerves)

b. Intermediate level (brainstem, cerebellum, basal ganglia, cerebral cortex)

c. Superior level (supplementary motor area, prefrontal,…)

d. Overview of movement

2. Neurological examination:

Motor examination

Sensory examination

Coordination

Cranial nerves

Higher brain functions

3. Headaches Pain characterization (how, where, what…) International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD): Primary (1-4), secondary (5-12), painful neuropathies (13,14) Headaches and sports

4. Higher brain functions: frontal and occipital lobes

5. Cognitive impairment

6. Movement disorders: Parkinson’s disease

7. Young-onset stroke

8. Epileptic seizures and sports

9. Demyelinating disorders

10. Traumatic brain injury, spinal cord and vertebral trauma

11. Neuromuscular disorders.

Head Lecturer(s)

Marcos Daniel de Brito da Silva Barbosa

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 100.0%

Bibliography

Sports Neurology, 2th edition, Lippincott-Raven,ed. Barry Jordan, Peter Tsairis, Russell Warren

Texts and slides of the curricular unity.