University of Montana - Rehab Essentials
Educating Health Professionals in a Cost-Effective Way
Course Description
Examination - Test and Measures Administration
Purpose of the Course
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.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will:
- Explain the following tasks performed by a physical therapist as described by the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice:
- 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
- Describe the normal values for each 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
- Given a finding from an examination, determine if the finding is normal, whether it relates to the patient’s concerns, and whether the problem can be addressed by a physical therapist.
- Explain basic tests and measures, including:
- 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
- Determine the most appropriate mobility technique and guarding strategy based on the patient’s condition.
- Compare and contrast the types of gait assistive devices based on their impact on base of support, balance, cardiopulmonary demands, and ability to offload weight from the lower extremities: Parallel bars, wheelchair, walker, platform walker, crutches, Lofstrand crutch, quad cane, hemi-walker, standard cane, and walking poles.
- Compare and contrast ways in which PT’s measure and document mobility.
- Describe the methods and individuals who collaborate to help patients return to work, school, domestic life, community, social activities, play or sport.
- Evaluate barriers and opportunities within the patient’s community that impact the ability of the patient to return to life roles.
- Examine patient abilities related to school, work, domestic, community, civic life, play, and sport using valid/reliable outcome measures, including scales, self-reports and tools