Therapeutic Interventions and Physical Agents

Catalog description

The third course in the clinical skills series. It is designed to provide students with an overview of basic principles related to therapeutic exercise and therapeutic agents. This includes acute and chronic physiologic adaptation to aerobic and anaerobic exercise and therapeutic agents. The impact various disease states have on exercise capacity will also be explored. In addition, the application of therapeutic exercise prescription and therapeutic agents and medical documentation will be emphasized as related to pathologic conditions commonly seen in physical therapy practice.