Therapeutic Exercises and Assistive Devices

At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. conduct different types of therapeutic exercises; 2. conduct and put patients fitted with prosthesis and orthosis through learning process and controlled exercises; and 3. appreciate and recognise therapeutic exercises, patho and biomechanics as key to returning the patient back to normalcy or near normalcy.

Exercise for the treatment of specific types of disease conditions. Group therapy, suspension therapy, traction, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques, facilitated movement, neuromuscular coordination exercise, health promotion, principles of exercise prescription. Lower motor neuron lesions, amputees, arthritis, back pain, pulmonary diseases, hemiplegia and paraplegia. Learning process with Prosthetics and Orthotics products, adaptations to assistive products and many others.