Physiotherapy Specialization in Neurorehabilitation
What is Physiotherapy Specialization in Neurorehabilitation?
Through the training of professionals specialized in the approach of people with movement disorders of neurological origin, and with a comprehensive perspective from a biopsychosocial projection that enables the understanding of the health-disease process in relation to the field of neurosciences, Fundación Universitaria María Cano aims with the Specialization in Physiotherapy in Neurorehabilitation to respond to the social health needs of the local context jointly international dynamics.
One of the main axes of the Specialization in Physiotherapy in Neurorehabilitation is the applicability study in neurorehabilitation technologies for the physiotherapeutic approach of people based on the best scientific, available, and revitalized evidence through knowledge, devices, instruments and procedures that enable responses to the diversity, challenges and opportunities in health demanded by the area.
In addition, the Physiotherapy specialist in Neurorehabilitation will have the opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary teams in a variety of contexts, both hospital and outpatient or in intervention in the direct environment in which people develop.
SNIES: 111527
Title: Neurorehabilitation Physiotherapy Specialist
Qualified registration: 005492 of arpil 5, 2023
Methodology: on campus
Validity: 7 years
Duration: 2 semesters
Value 2025: $10.481.127 per semestre
Number of credits: 30 credits
City: Medellín
Professional profile:
The Physiotherapist Specialist in Neurorehabilitation of Fundación Universitaria María Cano University will have the ability to analyze, plan, design and implement therapeutic strategies in relation to neurosciences and human body movement; its maintenance, optimization or potentiation, prevention, and recovery of its alterations; as well as the habilitation and comprehensive rehabilitation of the population. This participation in interdisciplinary teams contributes to the quality of life and social development from the specific field, using the best available and revitalized evidence through knowledge, devices, instruments, and procedures that enable responses to the diversity, challenges and opportunities in health demanded by the area.
Occupational profile
The Physiotherapist Specialist in Neurorehabilitation of Fundación Universitaria María Cano will be able to work as a:
· Health care professional who participates in interdisciplinary teams for the Neurorehabilitation area in centers of low, medium, and high level of complexity.
· Neurorehabilitation Physiotherapist in health and rehabilitation institutions in different populations throughout the life cycle.
· Researcher in development projects in health promotion, disease prevention and rehabilitation, both for governmental and non-governmental entities, related to the field of physiotherapy in neurology.
· University professor in higher education institutions that offer undergraduate programs in Physiotherapy and postgraduate programs related to the area of Physiotherapy in Neurorehabilitation.
· Neurorehabilitation Physiotherapist in processes of inclusion in the labor and educational sector.
· Neurorehabilitation Physiotherapist in health and rehabilitation institutions.
· Designer and executor of health and rehabilitation development projects, convened by governmental and non-governmental organizations, which promote physiotherapeutic intervention processes in the neurological area.
· University professor in Physiotherapy schools in Neurological Rehabilitation.
Admission Requirements Undergraduate Programs
Admission requirements New In-person and Virtual Undergraduate Applicant
To enter any of the undergraduate programs offered by María Cano, the new applicant must complete the following procedure:
- Fill out the online registration form
- Make the payment of undergraduate registration fees $213.022
- At the end of the registration form, upload to the platform the following documents one by one (in PDF format) as indicated at the end:
- Photocopy of the high school degree certificate or diploma, if you have not yet completed grade 11, original study certificate, issued by the school valid for no more than one month.
- Results of the ICFES tests (Saber 11), if you do not have the results you can attach the citation to the test.
- A legible photocopy of the identity document (enlarged).
- A 3×4 size photo, light blue background.
- Documents are not received physically unless required during the admission process.
- Print the registration payment form at the end of online registration or make payment through PSE.
*The Foundation reserves the right to admit and assign study schedules to students.
Curriculum
Study Plan
Content
Module 1 | |
Physiology applied to sport | 2 |
Biomechanical evaluation and analysis in sport | 2 |
Methods of training physical abilities | 2 |
Risk factors and prevention of sports-related injuries | 3 |
Practice I – Epidemiological surveillance systems in sport | 4 |
Research Seminar 1 | 1 |
Total | 14 |
Module 2 | |
Sports rehabilitation | 3 |
Transdisciplinarity in sport | 3 |
Elective | 2 |
Practice II – Sports readaptation | 4 |
Research Seminar 2 | 2 |
Total | 14 |
Total program credits | 28 |
Total credits: 28