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ISICO ACTIVITY AREAS
RESEARCH
Research is a prior commitment for ISICO. It is performed through a close cooperation with the main Italian Research Institutes and with the most important Italian and foreign Universities, that operate in the sector of spinal pathologies. ISICO warrants the active systematic participation to the most important world sector-conferences and the promotion of excellence nets at a national and European level. ISICO performs a research and development activity too, in order to favour an immediate transfer, at an industrial level, of the new results acquired in the international scientific ambit.
CLINIC
ISICO operates through its rehabilitative structures, in order to guarantee the maximum synergy and a continuous exchange between the daily clinical experience and the research and educational activity. The protocols and the therapeutic and evaluation techniques are adjusted and adapted through a continuous process of improvement, in order to tangibly implement ISICO principles. At ISICO centres we treat all spinal pathologies of a non surgical interest, from the child to the elderly. We face the most complex cases and the adopted protocols are ideal also for those who come from afar.
EDUCATION
As everybody knows today, normally at least 10 years pass before the new knowledge acquired through research is progressively applied to the daily clinical practice. ISICO sets as its objective the reduction of this gap through a wide and powerful education activity, in accordance with the lines defined for the CME (Continuing Medical Education), through the prompt updating of net-related structures on the territory, through the organization of an educational activity in cooperation with the main scientific sector-specific societies and through the organization of meetings at a national level in order to spread the results obtained in the research field.
COMMUNICATION
In the field of spinal pathologies is has been scientifically proven that correct educational health campaigns through mass-media have a noteworthy efficacy in reducing the extent of health and social problems. For this reason, ISICO is actively engaged in the production of popular publications, in the promotion of meetings with the population, of congresses and debates, in the participation to TV and radio programmes. We make the most of the Internet, because of its noteworthy potential in this field. Furthermore, we propose a systematic cooperation with Scientific Societies, in order to allow the maximum widespread diffusion of the new knowledge.
PREVENTION
This is an ambit of elective work for ISICO. Its objective is the reduction of the incidence of these problems in the population. In the child it is fundamental, because vertebral pathologies, once established, are unlikely to be totally resolved. Furthermore, their treatment is a prevention of the more important problems found in the adult age. In the adults, the vast majority of problems is of a recurrent type and, in the elderly, aging makes necessary to avoid the aggravation with time. So, prevention implemented in the daily and working ambit becomes a therapy too. |
