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This course enhance students' knowledge and enables them to analyze the underlying principles of therapeutic exercise. It introduces motor training or retraining; flexibility; strength, including active, assistive, active resistive, manual resistive, plyometrics; breathing exercises, including ventilatory muscle training; aerobic capacity/endurance conditioning activities, using cycles, treadmills, steppers; aquatic exercises; posture; relaxation exercises; and conditioning and reconditioning. The course also includes all types of exercise equipment, including free weights, weight training machines, elastic bands and tubes, stability balls, medicine balls, and slide boards. The course provides the students with basic knowledge of the physiological principles for understanding the response of the human body to exercise and their implications in physical therapy intervention, this includes specific response of pulmonary, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, and metabolic systems to exercise. Also, the course will enable the students to provide exercise/programs for patients/clients across the lifespan. |