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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHTH 523 - PHYSICAL AGENTS

Credits: Two
Prerequisite: PHTH 509, PHTH 522, PHTH 525, PHTH 529, PHTH 531; For PT Students
Corequisite: PHTH 523L

This course deals with the wide range of physical therapy treatment procedures that use electricity, heat, cold, light, sound, traction and compression to produce specific therapeutic effects. The physiological impacts of each physical agent on normal and abnormal human bodies are studied. Students develop skills in the safe and appropriate application of each procedure.
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