General Guidelines:

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Title

• General Guidelines
• This template is only one example of how a
  presentation might proceed. Modify as necessary
  to suit your case presentation.
• allow the students time to consider the questions
  and give their insights
• It may be helpful to ask leading questions but
  try not to just give answers
• Provide citations for as much information as
  possible eg. Which tests/treatments/outcome
  measures/scales etc are reliable or unreliable?

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History as applies to the case

• From the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice
• patient demographics
• Social history/leisure
• Occupation employment
• Growth and development
• Living environment

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History of current condition

• Why is the patient seeking PT
• Current therapeutic interventions, if any
• Patient goals

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Symptoms

• Onset and pattern

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Functional Status Activity level

• Health Status Index scores
• other relevant functional scales
• Citations for reliability etc.

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Medications lab values

• If any

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Differential Diagnosis?

• Ask audience to give you the differential PT
  diagnosis e.g.. what impairments are associated
  with the patients problem and what are possible
  causes of the impairments

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Differential Diagnosis

• State the presenters differential PT diagnoses
  and compare to the students list

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Physical Exam?

• Ask audience what evidence they can use to
  confirm or disconfirm each of the differential
  diagnoses.
• What additional tests, information do they need.
• Provide evidence for the reliability and validity
  of any special tests when possible

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Physical Exam

• The following slides are just examples of the
  type of information that you might include. Make
  changes to suit the topic of the presentation.

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Palpation
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Flexibility
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Strength
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Balance
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Gait
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Special tests
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Other

• Ask clinicians for anything else that might be
  helpful

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Diagnosis?

• Ask audience to provide a final diagnosis based
  on the information gained from the PE

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Diagnosis

• State the presenters PT diagnosis and compare to
  the audiences diagnosis
• Give clinical insights and thought process
  involved in making the diagnosis.
• Ask clinicians for insights

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Prognosis?

• Ask students what they think is the prognosis
  this is hard for them but give them time to try,
  perhaps use leading questions.
• Give your prognosis
• Ask input from other clinicians in the audience
• Need for referral? Include thought process
  involved in deciding on referral.

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Interventions?

• Ask students to provide the interventions

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Interventions

• Give your interventions with decision making
  process
• Compare to the audiences interventions
• Include when you would refer if necessary, and on
  what information you based your decision to refer
• Ask for clinician input

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Assessment of outcomes

• Pathology
• Impairments
• Dysfunction
• Disability