It includes in the care of patients with locomotor system disorders the irreplaceable complement of phytotherapy, with the safety of intervention of the latest scientific evidence"

There is now a scientific basis supporting the efficacy of many phytotherapeutic products for certain indications. The place that Phytotherapy should occupy in therapeutics should be that for which it has demonstrated its usefulness and safety. 

Efficacy is achieved only with the proper use of phytotherapeutic preparations, both in terms of indications and form of administration. 

This program offers a current vision of Phytotherapy and its application in the health field, including the latest contributions and advances. The contents are guaranteed by the teaching staff involved in the Postgraduate Diploma, since in one way or another they all work in the field of phytotherapy or are related to it. 

Thus, the student will learn based on the experience of the teachers and experience evidence-based medicine, which results in specialization the student to be more effective and accurate. 

Taking into account that, on the one hand, the different university training programs generally lack a deep and continuously updated specialization in Phytotherapy, and on the other hand, that current health trends lean towards the use of safe and effective natural remedies, it is necessary to be able to offer students the possibility of expanding their knowledge and therapeutic skills with a greater specialization in the use of medicinal plants, from the professional and academic side necessary to adequately face their future in this field. 

Learn about phytotherapy and offer your patients the most comprehensive advice on support resources for locomotor system disorders"

This online Postgraduate diploma offers you the benefits of a scientific, teaching and technological high-level course. These are some of its most notable features:

• Latest technology in online teaching software
• Highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Self-regulating learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

Include phytotherapy among your tools and improve patient care with new ways and alternatives for treatment and prevention"

Our teaching staff is composed of medical professionals, practising specialists. In this way, we ensure that we provide you with the training update we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of doctors trained and experienced in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will bring their practical knowledge derived from their own experience to the course: one of the differential qualities of this training. 

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this Postgraduate Diploma. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. In this way, you will be able to study with a range of easy-to-use and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the necessary skills you need for your specialization.  

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice: with the help of an innovative interactive video system, and learning from an expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way. 

With a methodological design based on proven teaching techniques, this postgraduate diploma will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way"

Take a leap towards greater specialization and propel yourself towards greater competitiveness in the labor market"

The contents have been developed by the different experts of this course, with a clear purpose: to ensure that our students acquire each and every one of the skills necessary to become true specialists in this field. 

A development of knowledge and techniques of phytotherapy in the field of locomotor system disorders, essential for the pharmacist, created to enable them to provide a high quality intervention"

Module 1. Phytotherapy and Herbal Medicines

1.1.  Phytotherapy: Definition and Scope of Application.
1.2.  Botanical Nomenclature and the Citation of Species in Phytotherapy.
1.3.  Current Classification of Plant Groups.
1.4.  Legislation and Registration of Herbal Medicines in Spain.
1.5.  Regulation of the European Market for Medicinal Herbal Preparations: Legal Regulations and Scope of Application.
1.6.  Cultivation, Collection, Processing and Preservation of Medicinal Plants.
1.7.  Plant-Based Drugs: Impact of Drug Recognition on the Quality of Phytotherapeutic Products.
1.8.  Mushrooms with Medicinal Utility.

Module 2. Active Ingredients of the Plants, Pharmaceutical Forms and Galenic Preparations

2.1.  Active Ingredients: Main Groups and Properties, as a Basis that Justifies the use of Phytotherapy
2.2.  Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Sulfocyanogenetic Heterosides and their Therapeutic Application
2.3.  Simple Phenols, Coumarins and Lignans and their therapeutic application
2.4.  Flavonoids and their Therapeutic Application
2.5.  Tannins and Quinones and their Application
2.6.  Isoprenoids, Saponins and Cardiotonic Heterosides and their Application
2.7.  Resins and their Application
2.8.  Alkaloids and their Application
2.9.  Magistral Formulation in Phytotherapy
2.10.  Other Pharmaceutical Forms in Phytotherapy
2.11.  Industrial Processing of Herbal Medicines

Module 3. Phytotherapy for Locomotor System Disorders

3.1.  Phytotherapy in Arthritis.
3.2.  Phytotherapy in Arthrosis.
3.3.  Phytotherapy for Joint Pain: Anti-Inflammatory and Analgesic
3.4.  Medicinal Plants Muscle Relaxants for the Treatment of Muscle Contractions
3.5.  Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Rheumatism
3.6.  Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Gout: Uricosuric Plants
3.7.  Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Sarcopenia
3.8.  Remineralizing Medicinal Plants

A comprehensive teaching program, structured in well-developed teaching units, oriented toward a high impact learning and training"