Physical Therapist Assistant

This laboratory course is offered in the second year, fall semester, and focuses on hands on application of concepts learned in AHLT220R with a focus on the approach taken in physical therapy. Clinical neuropathology, introduction and application of motor control theory, motor learning, screening of the nervous system, and neurorehabilitation approaches to patient care
are included.
This course draws upon concepts learned in AHLT 112R Clinical Conditions, AHLT 123R Clinical Kinesiology, AHLT135R Foundations in Rehabilitation, and PTAC115R Therapeutic Exercise, as these courses introduced typical and atypical conditions that affect the nervous system of the human body.