DPT 624 - Health Promotion & Fitness Management

Description
Introduces the concepts of lifestyle medicine, health promotion, wellness, and fitness including injury prevention, nutritional influences, fitness testing, and exercise prescription in an apparently healthy population. The biopsychosocial components of wellness are emphasized. Through cased-based learning students develop injury mitigation strategies and exercise programs based on test results and then adapt the execution during laboratory sessions to specific healthy populations using proper clinical procedures.

Course Delivery Model(s): Blended

Lecture Hours: 32
Lab Hours: 20
Total Hours: 52
Credits: 2.5

Prerequisites: Successful completion of Semester 1 Courses
Corequisites: None

Repeatable (# of times): 0

Grade Type: Letter