PTAP-150 Clinical Pathology
This course describes the etiology, signs, symptoms, and treatment of diseases and disorders commonly encountered in physical therapy.
Hours Weekly
3 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Describe common human diseases in terms of causes, lesions, and typical manifestations
relative to the field of physical therapy. - 2. Use the terminology of pathology in the appropriate context.
- 3. Formulate a reasonable in-depth understanding of basic disease mechanisms, including the
structural, biochemical, and functional derangements that accompany disease. - 4. Identify the foundations of cell injury, adaptation, inflammation, and repair.
Course Objectives
- 1. Describe common human diseases in terms of causes, lesions, and typical manifestations
relative to the field of physical therapy. - 2. Use the terminology of pathology in the appropriate context.
- 3. Formulate a reasonable in-depth understanding of basic disease mechanisms, including the
structural, biochemical, and functional derangements that accompany disease. - 4. Identify the foundations of cell injury, adaptation, inflammation, and repair.