Aims of the Course
This course aims to brush up your awareness of your professional responsibilities in a clinical setting- effective interview skills, interpretation of information, identifying red flags, what to do about them, competence in neurological examination and what to do about what you find.
Review Standards
Health Professions Council
Review Standards and Codes of Practice
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Analyse Case Histories
Physiotherapists have a professional responsibility to examine the neurological status of their patients competently and monitor that status as treatment progresses.
Review Neuro Testing
reflexes power and sensation
speed and proficiency of interpretation
Review Recording
Clear and concise recording
Interpretation of Information
Reasons for caution
When to refer on/ when to continue treatment; when to act without delay
Integrate
Neuro testing into your spinal exam for speed and proficiency
Upper extremity
Lower extremity
Reference list:
Tally and O’Connor: Clinical Examination. Blackwell Science 2001
Fuller: Neurological Examination Made Easy: Churchill Livingston 1999
Douglas Nicol and Robertson: Macleods Clinical Examination : Eleventh Edition Elsevier 2005
Swisher and Krueger-Brophy: Legal and Ethical Issues in Physical Therapy. Butterworth Heinmann 1998
Petty and Moore: Neuromusculoskeletal Examination and Treatment. Churchill Livingston 1997
Stokes: Physical Management in Neurological Rehabilitation. Elsevier Mosby 1998
Maitland: Vertebral Manipulation. Butterworth 1986.
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