DPT-815: Rehabilitation Through the Lifespan and Special

Credits 3.0
Academic Level
DPT

This course provides an overview of normal and abnormal human development across the lifespan in the pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations. The course will include the following: typical development, reflexes and the role of reflexes in movement development, atypical development and its clinical outcomes, and review of motor control/motor learning theories and their application to each population. Assessment and therapeutic intervention strategies for each population will also be addressed. The course will cover selected medical conditions specific to each population. Students will learn to identify underlying impairments in multiple physiological systems that lead to functional, activity, and participation limitations in these populations.