Rehabilitation strategies which emphasize proper healing and scar control and promote independent function will be emphasized. Physical therapy evaluation and treatment of adult development, rheumatic diseases, and geriatrics. Physician management of musculoskeletal dysfunctions including hand surgery, pediatric orthopedics, fractures, spine deformity, low back pain, degenerative spine disease, and various sports medicine pathologies. Includes a series of radiology lectures for physical therapists and several special lectures on therapy principles related to medical management. Students register for one lab section only.
Students register for one lab section only.
The central focus of this course is the role of the health care provider in promoting and maintaining function, independence and self-care of an older adult through the use of personal, family, and community resources. Physiological and psychosocial changes of aging, impacting the older individual's health status will be presented. Students will be able to determine how functional assessments, health promotion, coping interventions, and community and national resources can be applied to healthy as well as chronically ill elderly individuals. Theory and application of educational principles to physical therapy in clinical environments. Students register for one lab section only.