Paediatric Conditions – Down Syndrome, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Arthrogryposis

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Down Syndrome, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Arthrogryposis

Deepen your understanding of four major paediatric conditions

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Krista Eskay

Dr. Krista Eskay is a paediatric physical therapist and researcher

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Introduction

Physiotherapists working with children need to be knowledgeable about many common childhood conditions. The role of the physiotherapist is to facilitate functional independence for the child. This course discusses four conditions, focusing on diagnosis, assessment, intervention and complications. The four conditions in this course are Down Syndrome, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, osteogenesis imperfecta, and arthrogryposis multiplex congenita.

Aims

This course aims to describe the diagnosis, management, and complications of four paediatric conditions.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

Video
Reading activity
Quiz

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants. Other interested professionals such as athletic trainers, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 2-2.5 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 1.9 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

Respect the Plus Community Culture.
Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

describe at least two clinical features of Down Syndrome, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, osteogenesis imperfecta and arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
explain the basic aetiology of Down Syndrome, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, osteogenesis imperfecta and arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
identify at least two rehabilitation interventions to help manage Down Syndrome, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, osteogenesis imperfecta and arthrogryposis multiplex congenita