| Type: | Undergraduate Subject |
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| Code: | EXPH12-114 |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine |
| Credit: | 10 |
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Description
This advanced clinical subject equips students with the specialised competencies required to assess, prescribe, and deliver evidence-based exercise interventions for individuals with neurological, complex multi-morbidity, and chronic disease presentations. Students integrate advanced neurological assessment, pain science, complex case formulation, and pharmacological knowledge to design safe, progressive, client-centred exercise programs for conditions including stroke, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury, chronic pain syndromes, and multi-morbid chronic disease clusters. Through intensive clinical reasoning, deliberate practice of neurological testing, and simulated complex consultations, students develop the sophisticated clinical decision-making, interprofessional communication, and ethical reasoning essential for Accredited Exercise Physiologist practice in tertiary, community, and National Disability Insurance Scheme settings.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Synthesise neurological testing, pharmacological knowledge, and biopsychosocial factors to formulate defensible clinical decisions for clients with neurological and complex chronic conditions.
- Integrate neurological screening and functional assessment data to formulate clinical reasoning that differentiates pathology and guides complex prescription.
- Design evidence-based, progressive exercise interventions for individuals with neurological conditions that address impairment-level deficits while maximising activity participation and quality of life.
- Adapt exercise prescription for complex multi-morbidity presentations by integrating symptom monitoring and pharmacological considerations, to ensure safe, individualised progression across multiple physiological systems.
- Justify clinical reasoning and scope-of-practice decisions through structured interprofessional communication, comprehensive documentation, and ethical application of contemporary evidence.
Enrolment requirements
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Pre-requisites:Co-requisites:There are no co-requisites |
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This subject is not available to
This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure. |