Care and Rehabilitation Plan Guide for Physical Therapy
This worksheet-style guide walks 10th-grade students through building a complete care and rehabilitation plan for a patient, including a written Cohort Patient Chart and a short patient-facing video of up to five minutes. It builds skills in goal-setting, progress measurement (range of motion, pain ratings, manual muscle tests, and functional measures), exercise prescription, and clear health communication, and it works well as a multi-session project or a single extended class period with sections completed in order.
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use this as a multi-day project in a health science or anatomy-linked unit, starting with the Cohort Patient Chart before moving to the video so students first commit to measurable goals and then translate them into patient-friendly language.
- Discussion question: Why do clinicians track both objective measures (like degrees of range of motion) and subjective ones (like a patient's own pain rating), and what might be lost if only one kind were recorded?
- Scaffold for struggling readers: Provide a glossary of terms such as goniometer, manual muscle test, and range of motion, and a completed sample row for the progress data table so students can model their own entries.
- Extension for advanced students: Ask them to write a brief rationale for why they chose each exercise, citing how it targets the specific muscles and joints affected by the condition, and to adjust the plan for a patient with a different activity level.
- Estimated time: Roughly 3 to 4 class periods, with about 45 minutes for the chart, 45 minutes for the exercise plan, and 60 minutes to script, record, and review the video.
Care and Rehabilitation Plan Guide for Physical Therapy
This worksheet-style guide walks 10th-grade students through building a complete care and rehabilitation plan for a patient, including a written Cohort Patient Chart and a short patient-facing video of up to five minutes. It builds skills in goal-setting, progress measurement (range of motion, pain ratings, manual muscle tests, and functional measures), exercise prescription, and clear health communication, and it works well as a multi-session project or a single extended class period with sections completed in order.
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use this as a multi-day project in a health science or anatomy-linked unit, starting with the Cohort Patient Chart before moving to the video so students first commit to measurable goals and then translate them into patient-friendly language.
- Discussion question: Why do clinicians track both objective measures (like degrees of range of motion) and subjective ones (like a patient's own pain rating), and what might be lost if only one kind were recorded?
- Scaffold for struggling readers: Provide a glossary of terms such as goniometer, manual muscle test, and range of motion, and a completed sample row for the progress data table so students can model their own entries.
- Extension for advanced students: Ask them to write a brief rationale for why they chose each exercise, citing how it targets the specific muscles and joints affected by the condition, and to adjust the plan for a patient with a different activity level.
- Estimated time: Roughly 3 to 4 class periods, with about 45 minutes for the chart, 45 minutes for the exercise plan, and 60 minutes to script, record, and review the video.