Examination Testing

Through dynamic lectures, demonstration videos, active learning assignments, students engage in patient management, specifically physical therapy exam focused on test and measure administration of body structure/function, and activity of the following:

• Anthropometric characteristics
• Assistive, Adaptive Devices
• Community, work (job, school, or play) reintegration
• Environmental, home, work barriers
• Ergonomics, body mechanics
• Joint integrity and mobility
• Muscle Performance
• Neuromotor development, sensory processing
• Pain
• Range of Motion
• Reflex Integrity
• Self-care, home management
• Sensory Integration
• Mobility
• Peripheral Nerve Integrity

This course builds skills needed to select and perform tests and measures related to the above listed domains of practice across the lifespan. Students gain skills in clinical reasoning as applied to patient management across acute, sub-acute, and chronic stages of injury and healing. Through cases that span the lifespan, students apply clinical reasoning to select appropriate test and measures in all of the above listed domains of practice. Additionally, these case studies focus on managing patients across the lifespan as well as across the spectrum of health care settings, acute-chronic conditions, and simple to complex (multi-system) involvement.