Neuromuscular II

Catalog description

This course advances DPT students’ knowledge and skills in clinical reasoning and patient management of adults with a wide range of neurologic disorders and movement dysfunction. Learners enhance knowledge and skills in examination, evaluation, and interventions for persons with peripheral nerve and spinal cord pathologies as well as those with traumatic brain injury, stroke, and progressive neurological disorders. Students apply contemporary examination and treatment approaches across the lifespan, with special topics in mobility and gait training, wheelchair prescription, and assistive technology. Course content also includes principles of upper extremity examination and treatment, clinical practice guidelines in neurologic practice, and movement system diagnoses. Cases are used to apply learning and facilitate clinical reasoning across the lifespan and across clinical settings.