DPT 5431 MUSCULOSKEL PTNT/CLNT MGMNT I
This course addresses the rehabilitative and medical management of patients with axial and pelvic musculoskeletal dysfunction. Classroom sessions allow for the integration of reading assignments, current best evidence, and the instructor’s experience to support a framework for clinical decision making during classification (diagnosis) and treatment of patients with spinal dysfunctions. Lab sessions allow for practice and application of classroom content, namely: history taking, objective examination testing, exercise training, traction application, and the use of manual therapy, including thrust manipulation. Learning is reinforced and tested through the use of actual patient cases as a means of developing critical thinking and problem solving in the areas of differential diagnosis, prognosis, and management planning. Guest physician lectures are included for a medical perspective on diagnosis and non-op/surgical/post-op management of patients with spinal dysfunctions.