PT 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Manual Therapy, Emergency Medicine, Sports Medicine
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More of a team event (physical therapist with anatomy/physiology and athleic trainer with emergency medicine) Work in the training room taping, etc. On ield assessments (emergency medicine or orthopedic evaluaion: emergency medicine is not training that physical therapists get. Webster: one who engages in exercise of physical agility. Apta: one who directly paricipates in highly organized and compeiive sport events. Cited anitrust laws & scope of pracice violaions. Setlement language: athleic trainers are qualiied to perform certain forms of manual therapy . Scope of pracice issues batles coninue across a variety of states, to include mn. Sports medicine (strong athlete is the safe athlete) Sport-med is the study of force and moion. Sport tasks require highly sequenced and coordinated muscle acions. Power comes from the collecive efort of the legs, torso and throwing shoulder. Kicking is not the simple act of extending the knee.
