PT 466B Therapeutic Exercise

This is the second of two courses devoted to developing skills in therapeutic exercise in physical therapy. In this course emphasis is placed on developing clinical reasoning skills for the implementation of therapeutic exercise in the management of patients/clients with neurological conditions. Course content includes strength and endurance training in neurological populations neuromuscular electrical stimulation for neurologically involved patients, and functional strenghening using Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation and bands, balls and other equipment for those with neurological impairment.