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The patient management models a step -by -step -way physical therapist planned care for a patient.
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Each part connects to therapeutic exercise.
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The first is the examination evaluation.
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The pt checks the patient's history, movement, strength, flexibility, balance, their overall health.
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It helps decide which exercises are safe and needed.
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For example, like weak core muscles would get prescribed core strength, exercises.
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Tight hamstrings prescribe strengthening, not strengthening, but if it's tight hamstrings, you'd prescribe stretching exercises.
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Then we have the diagnosis or clinical impression.
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That's identifying the main problem or condition that guides exercise goals.
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So for example, a diagnosis of lower back pain will lead exercises to improve spine stability...