Title: Weekly Lab Activities 2
Course: PHT 1200C Basic Patient Care > Section: Module 2

Students are required to attend the weekly lab session for this course. The lab sessions will allow students time to practice various skills. Each Lab Activity aligns with the corresponding module topic.

Competency Check Off forms may be required for this activity. The Lab Competency check-off form will be provided to the students by the instructor when they meet for lab. Please refer to the Competency Check-Off Form for further details.

There may be SOAP note assignments that correlate with your lab activity. Please refer to the Course Calendar for more information.

The Lab Activities and Competency Check-Offs are worth 0 points. When applicable, SOAP Note Assignments are worth 20 points.

Module 2: Body Mechanics, Positioning, and Draping

1. Review each lifting technique. Everyone will practice the positioning for the lift. Then perform the lift with a partner using an ankle weight, weighted ball, physioball, box, or dumbbell. One person be the therapist and explain to your patient how to correctly perform the lift.

A. Deep squat lift

B. Power lift

C. Straight leg lift

D. One-leg stance lift

E. Half-kneeling lift

F. Traditional lift

G. Stoop lift

2. Review pushing, pulling, reaching & carrying. Everyone practice the positioning, Practice with a partner. When pushing/pulling explain to your partner how to assist you with moving to object. While reaching or carrying explain to your partner how to perform the technique.

A. push/pull a treatment table with a partner

B. reaching up high for an object

3. Observe patient’s posture in sitting, standing, moving. Review what to look for in each setting. With a partner, have someone assume a poor sitting and then standing position. Tell the patient how to correct this posture.

4. Positioning: Review positioning and draping in supine. Inform patient what you need to have uncovered for treatment & get consent. Educate patient on how to drape self if able. Have patient assume supine for proper positioning and draping. Assess skin in areas where bony prominences can cause pressure injuries.

A. right ankle sprain

B. right elbow lateral epicondylitis

C. left knee patellar instability

D. left hip 6 weeks post-op total joint replacement

5. Review positioning & draping in prone. Inform pt. what you need to have uncovered for treatment & get consent. Educate pt. on how to drape self if able. Have pt. assume prone for proper positioning and draping. Assess skin in areas where bony prominences can cause pressure injuries.

A. right knee hyperextension

B. lumbar spine strain

C. Achilles tendon injury

D. left scapular mobility deficit

6. Review positioning & draping in sidelying. Inform pt. what you need to have uncovered for treatment & get consent. Educate pt. on how to drape self if able. Have pt. assume sidelying for proper positioning and draping. Assess skin in areas where bony prominences can cause pressure injuries.

A. lumbar spine pain

B. left frozen shoulder (decreased ROM)

C. right posterior knee pain

D. right hip flexion contracture

7. Review positioning & draping in sitting. Inform pt. what you need to have uncovered for treatment & get consent. Educate pt. on how to drape self if able. Have pt. assume sitting for proper positioning and draping. Assess skin in areas where bony prominences can cause pressure injuries.

A. thoracic spine pain

B. right scapular mobility deficit

C. posterior neck pain

D. plantarflexion ROM

8. Positioning special populations: Review as a class and practice with a partner.

A. Transfemoral amputation

B. Transtibial amputation

C. Hemiplegia

D. Burns

Attachment

Lab_Activities 2(1).pdf