Adult Neuromuscular Diagnosis and Management

Catalog description

Adult Neuro is a 5-credit course during the Spring semester of the second year of the DPT program. This course presents assessment procedures and therapeutic management techniques of adult patients with neurological dysfunction and spinal cord injuries through the use of case study presentations with an emphasis on problem- oriented learning to encourage active student participation and clinical decision-making. The presentation of course materials reinforces earlier course work in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neuromuscular pathology. Laboratory sessions emphasize the development of specific psychomotor skills necessary for assessment and treatment of the adult neurological client. Course content also provides an eclectic theoretical treatment rationale with a variety of neurological treatment techniques and interventions for patients with spinal cord injury, stroke, vestibular pathology, traumatic brain injury, and progressive neuromuscular pathology disorders. All examination and treatment techniques are based on a patient-centered framework incorporating the International Classification of Function, Disability, and Health (ICF) model.