Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Master's Degree in Motor Neurocontrol

The completion of a classic program typically entails earning 60 ECTS credits.

Master's Degree Duration: One academic year.

• 607801 Epidemiology and statistics
• 607802 Ethics and research
• 607803 Evidence-based clinical practice
• 607804 Evidence in neurorehabilitation
• 607805 Psychomotricity. Evaluation and applications
• 607806 Neuro. rehabilitation and motor control
• 607816 Neurological evaluation
• 607809 Methods of intervention in rehabilitation
• 607808 Intervention Methods in Physiotherapy
• 607807 Intervention Methods in Occupational Therapy

Final Master's Project

• Final Master's Project in movement analysis
• Final Master's Project in the exercise in neuromotor control
• Final Master's Project in sensory integration
• Final Master's Project in cognitive intervention
• Final Master's Project in facilitation methods and neurostimulation
• Final Master's Project in evaluation and treatment of pain.
• Final Master's Project in new methods of proprioception and balance
• Final Master's Project in diseases of neurological origin

General Competences of The Master

• CG01 - That students have demonstrated a systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the skills and research methods related to said field.
• CG02 - That students have demonstrated the ability to conceive, design, put into practice and adopt a substantial research process with academic seriousness
• CG03 - That the students have made a contribution through original research that expands the frontiers of knowledge, developed a substantial corpus, of which part deserves the reference publication at a national or international level
• CG04 - That students are able to carry out a critical analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of new and complex ideas
• CG05 - That students know how to communicate with their colleagues, with the academic community as a whole and with society in general about their areas of knowledge
• CG06 - That they are supposed to be able to promote, in academic and professional contexts, technological, social or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society
• CG07 - That they know how to carry out a bibliographic search in the main databases

Transversal Competences

• CT01 - Autonomous and collaborative work
• CT02 - Acting following ethical principles
• CT03 - Oral and written communication
• CT04 - Analytical observation and critical reasoning
• CT05 - Problem-solving ability

Specific Competences

• CE01 - Ensure that the practice is based on professionally recognized evidence.
• CE02 - Maintain an adequate record of the therapeutic activity. Ability to inform, record, document, and, if possible, refer.
• CE03 - Evaluate the methods used in the provision of services, evaluate their own professional practice and the service offered to the patient, their caregivers, and organizations
• CE04 - Be aware of the legislative and political implications at the local and national levels that may have an impact on the practice
• CE05 - Apply the principles of quality assurance, including audit methods, to their own practice.
• CE06 - Know the ethical principles in the clinical and research field in the field of neurology and respond to the ethical dilemmas of their professional environment.
• CE07 - Ability to apply the concepts of professionalism and the application of safety measures in physical medicine and rehabilitation
• CE08 - Knowledge of national and international regulations on Deontology, data protection, and healthcare and research ethics committees
• CE09 - Correctly interpret the most common descriptive statistics and know how to choose the hypothesis test to apply in each case
• CE10 - Calculate and correctly interpret confidence intervals of different statistics and formulate conceptual hypotheses in the form of statistical hypotheses.
• CE11 - Use a statistical package to create, refine and analyze a database to obtain fundamental descriptive statistics, and propose and resolve homogeneity hypothesis tests of two or more means, proportions, and correlation.
• CE12 - Ability to assess the most prevalent neurological pathologies both in children and adults in our environment that imply motor control disorders.
• CE13 - Knowledge of the therapeutic principles of manual techniques, hydrotherapy, balneotherapy and other specific techniques. and ability to apply specific methods of Physiotherapy in the field of neurology and motor control, knowing their indications and contraindications
• CE14 - Ability to apply the scientific method to verify the effectiveness of intervention methods, evaluate the work methods applied and disseminate research results.
• CE15 - Ability to work in a team with the objective of achieving the well-being of the patient with neurological pathology, collaborating effectively with all the members of the professional team,
• CE16 - Respond, from Occupational Therapy to the needs of the patient with neurological pathology, evaluating, planning and developing intervention methods and techniques in individualized programs
• CE17 - Select, adapt and use therapeutic methods, techniques and activities to maintain, improve or accept changes in participation, and be able to apply treatments in participation restrictions caused by neurological disorders, both in the institutional environment and at home and work .
• CE18 - Intervene in the adaptation and readaptation of the physical, social and cultural environment of patients with neurological problems.
• CE19 - Know and apply the methods of rehabilitation in patients with neurological diseases, in their different evolutionary stages, knowing the indications and contraindications, adapting the actions to quality standards, scientific evidence and critical reasoning, reviewing and adjusting the treatments.
• CE20 - Know the rehabilitation process of the WHO, the interdisciplinary multiprofessional intervention and the active-therapeutic process in neurorehabilitation.
• CE21 - Knowledge of the neurophysiological bases of motor control and neurorehabilitation, learning, recovery and rehabilitation of motor function: forms and techniques of learning, applications, recovery and motor compensation.
• CE22 - Knowledge of the bases of clinical methods in neurorehabilitation (motor control techniques), neurological deficiencies and muscular control, motor, sensory, balance and perception systems, concept of postural control (position, bipedalism), its development and clinical applications.
• CE23 - Mastering the abnormal mobility clinic
• CE24 - Understanding of coordination problems, response activation, anticipation, sensory problems and their evaluation, normal mobility control models, development of locomotion, postural control and aging, as well as knowledge and applications of reach, grasp and manipulation.
• CE25 - Acquisition of knowledge about new technologies and scientific advances in the field of motor control and neurorehabilitation.
• CE26 - Design an intervention or rehabilitation treatment plan and analyze the prognosis and evaluation based on the evidence.
• CE27 - Ensure that the practice is based on professionally recognized evidence and be able to evaluate one's own professional practice and the service offered to the patient, caregivers or organizations.
• CE28 - Know how to assess the need to apply the research process to establish clinical efficacy and the evidence on which professional practice is based.
• CE29 - Be able to use experience, research and professional knowledge and skills to improve the development of professional practice.
• CE30 - Apply new information technologies in the rehabilitation context.
• CE31 - Demonstrate that the professional activity conforms to quality standards and that it is a practice based on scientific evidence.
• CE32 - Understanding of the basic concepts of movement and psychomotor skills, as well as the evolutionary and involutionary process of the person's motor skills.
• CE33 - Knowledge of psychomotricity assessment and intervention methods, and their fields of application in different age groups.
• CE34 - Differentiate the basic components of psychomotor skills such as laterality, balance, coordination, spatiotemporal orientation, or rhythm, and know how to treat alterations in these components from psychomotor skills.
• CE35 - Observe, evaluate and carry out a psychomotor session properly using the room, materials, techniques, resources and adequate organization of the session and time.