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Jan 15, 2025
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AT 2101 - Lower Extremity Examination Lab
Provides students with hands-on experience that prepares them to perform diagnostic orthopedic assessment techniques. Students take medical histories; palpate bony and soft structures; perform range of motion, neurological and circulatory tests; and perform orthopedic special tests for the lower extremities and lumbar spine.
Requisites: AT 1150 or AT 165
Credit Hours: 1
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Demonstrate the ability to conduct neurologic and vascular tests.
- Demonstrate the ability to differentially select the appropriate test(s) based on the patient’s history.
- Demonstrate the ability to inspect the area for gross deformity and asymmetry.
- Demonstrate the ability to obtain a medical history relevant to the condition.
- Demonstrate the ability to palpate and identify normal and abnormal tissue structure.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform appropriate joint play tests.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform appropriate ligamentous tests.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform appropriate special tests.
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