«Innovations in therapy, rehabilitation, and emergency care for epilepsy»

Number of hours: 16 hours

Knowledge control: final testing

Language of instruction: Ukrainian

Form of classes: asynchronous online course

Information support:

• Record of 4 online classes

• Methodological material

You will also receive:

• Chat communication with the teacher

• Certificate (after passing the final testing)

Why is it interesting? The course will help to gain knowledge about what epilepsy is, the etiology of epilepsy, types of epilepsy by type of epileptic seizures, cause of occurrence, localization of the lesion, modern principles and standards of diagnosis and treatment, features of the use of modern means, methods of therapy and rehabilitation, taking into account drug antiepileptic therapy when building individual programs for patients with epilepsy, providing emergency care.

Thanks to the knowledge of the principles of using modern methods of physical therapy, drug therapy, emergency care, specialists/members of the multidisciplinary team will be able to provide qualified and high-quality services to patients with epilepsy, relatives will have an understanding, skills of emergency care, conducting recommended classes at home.

You will learn:

• Types of epilepsy by type of epileptic seizures, cause of occurrence, localization of the lesion.

• Correspondence of old and new terms in the description of seizures

• Criteria for the diagnosis of the main forms of epilepsy according to ICD 10

• Standards of diagnosis and treatment.

• Antiepileptic therapy. Mechanism of action of AEDs.

• Modern principles of using means and methods of therapy and rehabilitation, taking into account drug antiepileptic therapy.

• Methodology for building individual physical therapy programs for patients with epilepsy

Course program

Online class topic	Hours
Topic 1. Epileptogenesis. Pathogenesis of epilepsy. Neurophysiological aspects of epilepsy. Classification of epilepsies ICD-10. Types of epilepsies by type of epileptic seizures, cause of occurrence, localization of lesion. Classification of epileptic seizures. Correspondence of old and new terms in the description of seizures	4
Topic 2. Benign partial epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal spikes (G 40.0). Idiopathic partial epilepsy with occipital paroxysms (G 40.0). Childhood absence epilepsy (G 40.3). Juvenile absence epilepsy (G 40.3). Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (G 40.3). Epilepsy with isolated generalized seizures (G 40.3). Cryptogenic or symptomatic generalized epilepsies./ West syndrome (G 40.4)/ Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (G 40.4). Symptomatic partial epilepsies (G 40.1-G 40.2). Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital epilepsies	4
Topic 3. Antiepileptic therapy. Classification of antiepileptic drugs by mechanism of action. Classification of antiepileptic drugs (clinical). Mechanism of action of PEP. Valproic acid and its salts (valproates)/ Depakine, Valprocom; Lamotrigine: Epileptal, Lamictal, Lamotrin, Carbamazepine: Carbalex, Finlepsin Keppra. Modern principles of application of means and methods of therapy and rehabilitation taking into account drug antiepileptic therapy Methodology of construction of individual programs of physical therapy for patients with epilepsy	4
Topic 4. Emergency care for epilepsy. Control (test)	4
Total hours	16

Course lecturer: physical therapist/instructor of therapeutic swimming "International Center for Rehabilitation and Neurophysiology", senior lecturer of the Department of Physical Therapy of the Higher Educational Institution "International Scientific and Technical University named after Academician Yuri Bugay"

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