Course Description:

This course is designed to provide clinician’s with the knowledge and skills to competently perform medical screening procedures, differentially diagnose, and prognosticate movement impairments. These skills are foundational to orthopedic manual physical therapy practice and the management of patient’s with a sensitive nervous system. In this course, clinicians will be exposed to a hybrid approach to learning with didactic online content reinforced by case-based learning and live discussions to prepare for an intensive onsite laboratory weekend. The course will apply diagnostic theories with process skills (i.e. methodologies, differential processes, sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, classification, etc.) in addition to manual therapy assessment and treatment techniques all to assist clinicians in their clinical reasoning approach. These foundational skills will allow clinicians to identify appropriate medical referrals from patient’s who can benefit from physical therapy interventions. This course is foundational to an orthopedic manual physical therapist to diagnose and prognosticate manual therapy interventions.