PT 471B Patient/Client Management: Musculoskeletal II
This course is the second in a series of three courses on management by the physical therapist for patients with orthopedic dysfunction for all body regions. Students will progress to this course after successful completion of PT 471A. Each element of patient/client management will be considered throughout the course, including examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, and outcomes. This second course consists of lecture and laboratory components, and focuses on solidifying the knowledge of foundational concepts introduced during the first course (PT 471A), with application to upper quarter body regions. As the course progresses, student performance expectations will demonstrate higher levels of application, analysis, and synthesis of course content.
As in PT 471A, 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 continue to gain knowledge in manual therapy and neurodynamics concepts as forms of examination and intervention, now as applied to the upper quarter, as well as procedures for testing joint integrity and other special diagnostic orthopedic tests. Skills and concepts introduced in PT 471A as well as 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