COL Douglas A. Kersey Advanced Clinical & Operational Practice Course

COURSE TITLE

COL Douglas A. Kersey Advanced Clinical & Operational Practice Course (#6H-AO606)

SCOPE

This course is desgined to teach physical therapists and orthopedic physician assistants to evaluate and treat patients with neruomusculoskeletal conditions involving the lumbosacral, thoracic and cervical spine, the shoulder, hip, knee, and ankle. Course content includes a review of the anatomy of the neuromusculoskeletal system to include the shoulder girdle, axial structure, and lower limbs. Subject matter experts will discuss specialty areas of general medicine, pharmacology, orthopedics, and radiology as related to neuromusculoskeletal evaluation. Methodology will include lecture, demonstration, and lab exercises. This course is partial fulfillment for credentialing Army physical therapists as neuromusculoskeletal evaluators.

OBJECTIVES

• Identify pathologies of non-musculoskeletal origin which mimic musculoskeletal disorders.
• Apply the fundamental principles of evidence-based practice.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the aspects of radiology that are relevant to PT evaluation and intervention.
• State the effects, contraindications and indications for those medications which military PTs may be credentialed to prescribe, as well as for those which may affect physical therapy intervention.
• Apply the current best evidence for examination of the knee region and state which diagnostic tests have the best sensitivity and specificity for selected knee pathologies.
• Given a patient with specific impairments related to dysfunction of the spine or lower extremity, select an appropriate manual therapy technique and correctly perform it to address the impairments.
• Apply the current best evidence for examination of the spine and to provide specific interventions for spinal pathologies.

PREREQUISITES

Attendees will be licensed active or reserve component physical therapists. Active or reserve component applicants who are projected to deploy within the next 12-18 months will be given priority seating. ROTC and direct accessions and those rotating to OCONUS also have priority seating. COMPLETION OF INTRODUCTION TO CBRNE, 081-W IS MANDATORY BEFORE REGISTERING FOR ANY PPSCP COURSE. Introduction to CBRNE can located at ATRRS under channel Directory, select Self-Development.

COURSE LENGTH

10 Days (Excluding travel time and weekend)

Dates

2010 Dates TBDp>

Point of Contact

MAJ Shane Koppenhaver, shane.koppenhaver@us.army.mil or shanekoppenhaver@mac.com, 210-221-8410