PT 471A Patient/Client Management: Musculoskeletal I
This course is the first in a series
of three courses on management by the physical therapist for patients with
orthopedic dysfunction for all body regions. Each element of
patient/client management will be considered throughout the course, including
examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, and
outcomes. This first course consists of lecture and laboratory
components, and focuses on introduction to foundational concepts with
application to lower quarter body regions. Course content is presented
within a clinical reasoning framework, and concepts of hypothesis generation
and testing and differential diagnosis with selective tissue tension are
utilized to facilitate development of efficient strategies for: obtaining
a history, performing relevant systems reviews, selecting and administering
specific tests and measures, evaluation, diagnosis, and intervention planning
and implementation. Development of realistic prognoses and outcomes
hypotheses is also covered. Students are introduced to manual therapy and
neurodynamics concepts as forms of examination and intervention, as well as
procedures for testing joint integrity and other special diagnostic orthopedic
tests. Skills and concepts introduced in previous and concurrent
coursework will be integrated and applied to orthopedic patient case scenarios
and problem-solving exercises throughout the course. This integration
will include an expansion of clinical reasoning principles with an introduction
to clinical patterns. Also integrated will be previous and concurrent
course content including manual muscle testing, goniometry, postural, gait and
other movement analysis, orthopedic pathology, pharmacology and diagnostic technologies,
therapeutic exercise, therapeutic modalities, tissue healing, pain mechanisms,
and documentation principles. The course includes extensive application
of the concepts presented within the disablement model, with identification of
impairments and functional limitations/disability as the basis for
establishment of intervention strategies and functional goals.
Distribution
PTH