Promotion of Health & Wellness

Catalog description

During this course, students will learn the importance of promoting health and wellness to their patients, family, friends and community. Students will also investigate their own levels of health and wellness to develop and implement a personal plan. Topics discussed will include defining health and wellness, incorporating wellness into physical therapy, how nutrition affects wellness, determining fitness and body composition, the impact of social and mental health on wellness, and setting wellness goals for self, family/friends and community.