Musculoskeletal Injury Assessment

Catalog description

This course will provide students with the foundational knowledge required to determine signs and symptoms of pathologies. Pathologies taught will include common musculoskeletal injuries (e.g. sprain, strain, fracture, and instability). The principles taught in this course will include: 1) recognizing similarities and differences across pathologies, 2) history taking skills, 3) inspection and palpation skills 4) goniometry of joints and 5) identify muscle weakness.