The Musculoskeletal Elective course is designed to refine clinical reasoning and intervention skills in tailoring physical therapist treatment for complex presentations with musculoskeletal conditions and functional impairments, including those with chronic pain. Participants will progress skills in efficient and effective selection and application of therapeutic exercise and manual therapy interventions in a case-based format through guided application and expansion of previously learned concepts. Learners will advance adaptive clinical reasoning skills to modify treatment with consideration of patient presentation, demographics, available clinic and patient resources, social determinants of health, and best available evidence. Course sessions include instructor and peer-led case-based discussions across body regions, individual and group clinical reasoning activities, simulated treatment sessions, and hands-on skill development, community clinician-guided practice in choosing, implementing, and modifying interventions, and scholarly critique of the literature applied in practice.
Gopher Grades is maintained by Social Coding with data from Summer 2017 to Summer 2026 provided by the University in response to a public records request