Course Description:

"Principles in Practice" is a course for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants to gain proficiency at the essentials of understanding, assessing, and treating patients efficiently and effectively from both physical and emotional perspectives to improve patient outcomes and experiences. The course will include how to connect with patients from the initial evaluation, how to create and maintain value through a plan of care, general evaluation methods to develop an effective plan of care, corrective exercise programming guidelines such as proper progressive overloading, coaching, and cuing techniques, how to develop and modify dynamic warmups, and detailed breakdowns of natural exercise progressions for the UE, LE, and lumbopelvic regions. This course will also cover strategies for smoothly and skillfully managing individual treatment sessions across various scenarios and enhancing team communication to ensure optimal patient care efficiency.