Modalities

Hours

3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab

Semester

Fall

Principles of therapeutic interventions: healing, hydrotherapy, massage, traction, radiant energy, heat, cold, electrotherapy and rehabilitation. Application of healing and therapeutic modality theories to injured athletes and physically active individuals.

Therapeutic Interventions

Select according to appropriate parameters, and properly prepare and apply the treatment for rehabilitation of physical injury using massage, contrast bath, cryokinetics, cold whirlpool treatment, controlled cold therapy unit, ice bag, vapo-coolant spray, ice immersion.

Treatment and Rehabilitation Using Superficial Heat

Select according to appropriate parameters and properly prepare and apply: moist heat pack, paraffin treatment, warm whirlpool treatment, fluidotherapy.

Use of Electrotherapy in Decreasing Pain and Muscle Spasm

Select according to appropriate parameters and properly prepare and apply electrical stimulation units: monophasic stimulator (eg, high volt stimulation), biphasic stimulator (eg, TENS, NMES), direct current (eg, iontopheresis), alternating current (eg, interferential, NMES).

Use of Deep Heat to Decrease Pain, Swelling, Muscle Spasm, and Atrophy

Select according to appropriate parameters and properly prepare and apply thermal and nonthermal direct/indirect ultrasound treatment, sustained acoustic medicine (SAM) and pulsed shortwave diathermy.

Use of Traction for Decreasing Pain and Muscle Spasm

Select according to appropriate parameters and properly prepare and apply: mechanical traction, manual traction, positional traction.