Physiotherapy and algology

lknr1307  2025-2026  Louvain-la-Neuve

Physiotherapy and algology
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2.00 credits
22.5 h + 7.5 h
Q1

  This learning unit is not being organized during year 2025-2026.

Language
French
Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
Definitions and models of pain
  • IASP and ICD-11 classification
  • Acute/chronic pain: the chronicisation process
  • Evolution of pain explanation/understanding models
  • Prejudices, stereotypes and representations of pain
Assessing a patient with chronic pain
  • Pain mechanisms (nociceptive-no disciplastic-neuropathic)
  • Clinical assessment of pain
  • Pathology semiologies (fibromyalgia, Ehlers Danlos syndrome, CRPS,
  • common low back pain, post-surgical neuropathic pain, etc.) according to the ICD-11 classification
The educational approach
Therapeutic support
  • Physical activity dimension
  • Psychological dimension
  • Symptom management tools
  • Reassess and adjust
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

  • Explain the mechanisms, characteristics and symptoms of acute and chronic pain and the chronic pain and the chronicisation process (2.1)
  • Describe the different types of pain and their pathophysiological causes (2.1)
  • Name and explain prejudices, stereotypes and representations of pain (2.1)
  • Explain the recommendations for therapeutic interventions (3.1)
And in particular, in relation to a patient suffering from pain (clinical vignette and simulated case), the student will be able to simulated case), the student will be able to :
  • Integrate and interpret medical, psychosocial and contextual data (biopsychosocial approach) collected during the history taking and through questionnaires questionnaires, in the medical record (2.2)
  • Identifying, describing and applying the tools needed to carry out a clinical examination, appropriate to painful clinical situations (2.3)
  • Plan the clinical examination on the basis of the patient's history and medical records (2.3)
  • Make a clinical and functional diagnosis by integrating the information gathered during the history and clinical examination 2.4)
  • Identify and explain the clinical elements indicating the need to refer the patient to to a chronic pain centre and identify the relevant information to be communicated to the pain centre. to be communicated to the pain centre (2.5)
  • Identifying the clinical, personal and contextual factors which may influence the prognosis and justify it (2.6)
  • Talking appropriately with the patient (in a simulated situation) in order to define realistic therapeutic objectives and gain the patient's commitment (2.7 and 3.3)
 
Other information
This course is strictly reserved for FSM students. It is not open to other UCLouvain students.
Faculty or entity
> FSM


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Bachelor in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
KINE1BA
2
LKNR1200