Paediatric Physical Therapy programme: Module 4
SPECIAL TOPICS /SETTINGS
1. SPECIAL CARE NURSERY
- PT treatment/evaluation guidelines in the NICU
- Heidi ALS’ Syn-active theory of motor development
- Assessment of gestational age
- Neonatal pulmonary conditions
- RDS
- BPD
- Meconium aspirations
- Neurologic conditions
- Periventricular leukomalacia
- Germinal matrix- intraventricular hemorrhage
- And periventricular hemorrhage
- HIE
- Neonatal seizures
- Other medical conditions
- NEC, GERD, ROP, Hyperbilirubinemia and pain
- Developmental assessment and intervention
- Names of tests/ measures used to assess infants in the NICU
- Developmental follow-up
2. MOTOR LEARNING PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATION TO PEDIATRIC REHABILITATION
- General influences on motor learning
- Taxonomies of motor skills
- Stages of learning
- Practice conditions in motor learning
- Knowledge of performance
- Knowledge of results
- Feedback
- Blocked vs. random practice
- Constraint induced movement therapy
- Bimanual training
3. NDT
History of NDT
Old vs. new concepts
4. AUTISIM SPECTRAL DISORDERS
5. PAEDIATRIC GAIT
- Components of gait temporal and spatial
- Age related changes in gait
- Development of gait during the first year of life and its importance
- Common gait deviations in children with Cerebral Palsy
In the next batch (class of 2025) we will be introducing two new lectures:
- Evidence-based clinical decision making in Pediatric PT
- Motor development and control and its theories
- Neural-Maturational theories
- Dynamic systems
- Neuronal group selection theory
- ii Perception-Action theory
- Ecological theory
- Internal child factors such as cognitive and behavioral factors, body mass, anthropometrics and Nutrition
- Early motor development through 1-18 months
