Prosthetics and Orthotics

Catalog description

Prosthetics and Orthotics is a 2-credit course offered during the fall semester of the second year of the Doctorate of Physical Therapy curriculum. The course is designed to provide the student an overview of the pathology, evaluation, and interventions of individuals with amputations to include the evaluation and understanding of upper and lower extremity prosthetics. It also emphasizes normal and abnormal gait as it relates to the use of orthotic devices and its prescriptions. The pedagogical approach of the course will include an emphasis on problem-oriented learning in an effort to encourage active student involvement in the education process. Students will be expected to recall and apply information from previous coursework in a clinically relevant manner to critically analyze problems covering a variety of clinical scenarios.