Differential Diagnosis Orthopedics

Catalog description

The course will utilize case-based instruction to demonstrate specific conditions and the decision-making processes utilized to attain their complete management. It is designed to develop beginning to intermediate clinical reasoning skills in the field of orthopaedic manual physical therapy. Participants will study an evidence-informed approach to clinical reasoning and develop the skills to generate an initial patho-anatomical diagnostic hypothesis. We will look at reason-based development of individualized assessment sequences aimed at patient/client classification into: management of an initial diagnosis, progression to a specific, segmental, joint-centered biomechanical examination sequence, symptom/intervention/rule-based classification groupings, or referral to another health-care provider. The participants will identify the concepts of health, function, pain behaviors and their role in total patient/client management.