Master's degree in Motor Neurocontrol

What knowledge will I acquire with this Master?

The Master that we propose aims to develop a better understanding, as well as better evaluation and treatment options for neurological and musculoskeletal problems with a biomechanical or motor control component in their etiology. Specific attention is directed towards the analysis of movement by studying different bio-signals: EMG, kinetic and kinematic, as well as imaging of the individual using various technological modalities. 

The student will acquire fundamental knowledge about research, epidemiology and statistics, evidence-based health sciences and research ethics, as well as knowledge about the evaluation and treatment of pathologies of neurological origin or those with biomechanical components and motor control, psychomotricity and specific methods of physiotherapy, occupational therapy and rehabilitation.
In all subjects great importance is given to new technologies and scientific advances and the importance of scientific evidence is emphasized.

The student will have to develop a master's thesis for which he will have a tutor. This master's thesis can be developed in various lines of research such as: movement analysis, sensory integration, or new methods of proprioception and balance, among others, which are briefly described below:

• Movement analysis: Movement analysis techniques, gait study, analysis of movement disorders. Movement analysis laboratory.        
• Sensory integration: Sensory integration. Evaluation and intervention. Sensory disorders.                                                            
• New proprioception and balance methods: Proprioception and balance disorders, evaluation and treatment techniques such as static and dynamic posturography.
• Exercise in neuromotor control: Therapeutic exercise, sports activity and motor control, isokinetic.
• Cognitive intervention: Assessment methods and cognitive intervention. Cognitive alterations.
• Facilitation and neurostimulation methods: Facilitation and neurostimulation methods in neurological patients (Bobath, Vojta, Perfetti, among other techniques), application of new technologies.
• Evaluation and treatment of pain: Procedures for the evaluation and treatment of pain in neurological processes or musculoskeletal and motor control disorders.

Is this degree official according to the regulations required by the European Higher Education Area?

Yes (final verification report is attached), starting the first course in the academic year 2010-11.

Final verification report turned out FAVORABLE

Favorable report first modification

Favorable report second modification

Is it necessary to pass an access test?

It is not necessary to pass a test or exam.

What is the minimum number of credits for which I can enroll?

You can see it in the rules of permanence in this link

Recommended income profile

Students who have possession of an official Spanish university degree or another issued by a higher education institution of the European Higher Education Area that authorizes access to Master's degrees in the country that issued the degree.

The CV of the students will be valued, especially if they have teaching, clinical or research knowledge or experience in the field of Neurorehabilitation, motor control, movement analysis and Psychomotricity. Likewise, knowledge of English and computers and research experience will be valued.

Objectives

• Justify decisions and interventions from theoretical bases and based on the needs of patients with neurological conditions and the available resources.
• Use ethical principles in the process of critical reasoning.
• Show an appreciation of the different needs of people in society.
• Select and use assessments, specific to neurological processes, standardized and non-standardized and identify the functional capacity and the strengths and weaknesses of patients.
• Select, adapt and use therapeutic means, techniques and activities to maintain, improve or accept changes in participation.
• Ensuring that practice is based on professionally recognized evidence.
• Work with patients, and their caregivers, from different cultural and ethnic groups.
• Maintain an adequate record of therapeutic activity.
• Evaluate the methods used in the provision of services
• Evaluate their own professional practice and the service offered to the patient, their carers and organizations.
• Be aware of the legislative and political implications at the local and national level that may have an impact on the practice.
• Apply the principles of quality assurance, including auditing methods, to their own practice.
• Understand the research process and value a research culture.
• Apply the research process to service and activities.
• Critically evaluate their own performance in research activities.
• Criticize the supposed knowledge of others.
• Assess the need to apply the research process to establish clinical efficacy.
• Draw on research in practice and establish the evidence on which professional practice is based.
• Take steps to develop knowledge and expertise, and engage in continuing professional development and education.
• Use experience, research, and professional knowledge and skills to enhance the development of individual and general practice.

Competences

General Competences of the Master:

• CG01 - Students have demonstrated a systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and 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 students have made a contribution through original research that expands the frontiers of knowledge, developing a substantial corpus, part of which 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 capable of promoting, 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 skills:

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

Specific Competences:

• CE01 - Ensure that practice is based on professionally recognized evidence.
• CE02 - Maintain an adequate record of therapeutic activity. Ability to report, 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 level that may have an impact on 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 Ethics, data protection and ethics committees for care and research
• CE09 - Correctly interpret the most common descriptive statistics and know how to choose the hypothesis test to apply in each case
• CE10 - Correctly calculate and 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, propose and solve hypotheses of homogeneity of two or more means, proportions and correlation.
• CE12 - Ability to assess the most prevalent neurological pathologies in children and adults in our environment that involve alterations in motor control.
• 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 its 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 as a team with the aim of achieving the well-being of patients with neurological pathologies, collaborating effectively with all members of the professional team,
• CE16 - Respond, from Occupational Therapy, to the needs of patients with neurological pathology, evaluating, planning and developing intervention methods and techniques in individualized programs
• CE17 - Select, adapt and use methods, techniques and therapeutic 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 setting and at home and at 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 actions to quality standards, scientific evidence and critical reasoning, reviewing and adjusting the treatments.
• CE20 - Know the WHO rehabilitation process, multiprofessional interdisciplinary 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 basics of clinical methods in neurorehabilitation (motor control techniques), neurological deficiencies and muscle control, motor, sensory, balance and perception systems, concept of postural control (position, bipedalism), its development and clinical applications.
• CE23 - Master the clinic of abnormal mobility
• CE24 - Understanding of coordination problems, response activation, anticipation, sensory problems and their evaluation, normal mobility control models, locomotion development, postural control and aging, as well as the knowledge and applications of reach, prehension 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 from the evidence.
• CE27 - Ensure that the practice is based on professionally recognized evidence and be able to evaluate the professional practice itself and the service offered to the patient, carers 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 context of rehabilitation.
• CE31 - Demonstrate that professional activity meets 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 involutional process of the person's motor skills.
• CE33 - Knowledge of psychomotricity assessment and intervention methods, and their areas of application in different age groups.
• CE34 - Differentiate the basic components of psychomotricity such as laterality, balance, coordination, spatio-temporal orientation, or rhythm and know how to treat alterations of these components from psychomotricity.
• CE35 - Observe, evaluate and carry out a psychomotricity session using the room, materials, techniques, resources and adequate organization of the session and time appropriately.

Internal quality assurance system

Manual of the Internal Quality Assurance System

Composition of the commission

Composition of the commission

Results report

Once the monitoring of the Master's Degree has been carried out, the most relevant quantitative information on the results obtained in the monitoring of said Degree is displayed, differentiated by academic year.

Report by course:    

• 2022/2023
• 2021/2022
• 2020/2021
• 2019/2020
• 2018/2019
• 2017/2018
• 2016/2017
• 2015/2016
• 2014/2015
• 2013/2014
• 2012/2013
• 2011/2012
• 2010/2011

General information collection plan

• Indicators 2013/14
• Indicators 2014/15
• Indicators 2015/16
• Indicators 2016/17
• Indicators 2017/18
• Indicators 2018/19
• Indicators 2019/20
• Indicators 2020/21
• Indicators 2021/22
• Indicators 2022/23

Improvement actions

The Quality Assurance System of the Rey Juan Carlos University establishes that the degree's Quality Assurance Commission will annually analyze the information derived from the degree's indicators and prepare a report that will include improvement plans if the results so indicate.

• Improvement actions 2017 / 2018
• Improvement actions 2014 / 2015
• Improvement actions 2013 / 2014
• Improvement actions 2012 / 2013
• Improvement actions 2011 / 2012
  • Improvement actions specific to the title 2011 / 2012
  • Follow-up of the improvement actions of the previous course

Renewal of accreditation

The renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official Bachelor's and Master's degrees registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Degrees (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official bachelor's and master's degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment.

In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.”

• Final Report Renewal of accreditation  2019