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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Explores the history and concepts of physical therapy, physical therapist assisting and rehabilitative medicine. Introduces fundamentals of patient care including universal precautions; body substance isolation; OSHA guidelines, patient assessment including vital signs; body mechanics; and patient handling with applications of physics principles. Includes preparation of patients, treatment areas and equipment.
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3.00 Credits
Explores diseases and trauma which necessitate physical therapy for the client. Medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, psychology, disabilities and physics related to these conditions are discussed along with instrumentation, implants and fixation devices. Provides students with the opportunity to explore their own reactions to illness and disability and to discuss how to recognize patients¿ and families¿ reactions to illness and disability.
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3.00 Credits
Addresses the legal and ethical aspects of physical therapist assisting and patient care along with charting, documentation, report writing, patient history procurement, record keeping, charges, insurance information including diagnostic and procedure coding, third party reimbursement, Medicare, Medicaid, electronic claims and patient rights including American Disabilities Act policy and architectural barriers identification. Discusses current issues in health care provision. Explores patient, family, and professional communication techniques, body language and electronic communication as well as techniques in patient teaching. Includes performing within the limitations of scope of skills, basic principles of levels of authority and responsibility, planning, time management, supervisory process, performance evaluations, policies and procedures.
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5.00 Credits
Continues concentration on the fundamentals of patient care including universal precautions, assessment of vital signs, body mechanics and patient positioning. Includes lectures, demonstrations and simulated patient problems in the laboratory portion of the course. Studies new techniques in depth, such as gait training, gait device selection, goniometry range of motion exercises and measuring. Introduces various modalities including hydrotherapy, thermo-therapy, massage, traction and intermittent compression techniques. Safety factors are emphasized in both the lectures and the laboratories. The laboratory provides the setting for the practice and implementation of theories and techniques of PTA 106. Students practice assessments and treatment methods on themselves and one another under the guidance and supervision of the laboratory instructor.
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5.00 Credits
Introduces the physical therapist assistant student to the science of kinesiology. By definition, kinesiology is the study of movement. Studies human movement and brings together the fields of anatomy, physiology, physics and geometry. Prerequisite knowledge of skeletal and muscular anatomy and physiology is necessary. Class will consist of equal parts of lectures, demonstration and student participation in locating, observing and palpating various bony prominences and musculatures. Much of kinesiology requires independent study to memorize origin, insertion, action and innervation of all muscles. The knowledge gained in this course is an integral part of the students¿ background preparation for the practice of physical therapy.
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2.50 Credits
Requires the student to perform in a clinical environment with patients, using applications of theory and techniques of PTA 106, under the guidance of a registered physical therapist
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6.00 Credits
Requires the student to perform in a clinical environment with patients using applications of theories and techniques of PTA 207 under the guidance of a registered physical therapist.
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