Rehabilitation: Orthopedics

Catalog description

This course focuses on the biomechanical and rehabilitative approaches to assessment and intervention for traumatic and non-traumatic injuries and diseases that affect the skeletal and peripheral systems in individuals across the lifespan. Using the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) as an overarching framework, the student will learn how the assessments covered will yield information about the client’s occupation across the levels of function that impact activity and participation. The student will learn to design occupation-based assessments and interventions for prevention, adaptation, and compensation; and to develop therapeutic skills to implement and to monitor change. The laboratory component of the course will focus on the designing and fabrication of orthotic devices to support healing and to allow for day to day engagement in occupation.