Decision Tree for Neurological and Musculoskeletal Disorder
• Review the interactive media piece assigned by your Instructor.
• Reflect on the patient’s symptoms and aspects of the disorder presented in the
interactive media piece.
• Consider how you might assess and treat patients presenting with the symptoms of
the patient case study you were assigned.
• You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the diagnosis and treatment for
this patient. Reflect on potential co–morbid physical as well as patient factors that
might impact the patient’s diagnosis and treatment
Write a 1– to 2–page summary paper that addresses the following:
• Briefly summarize the patient case study you were assigned, including each of the
three decisions you took for the patient presented.
• Based on the decisions you recommended for the patient case study, explain whether
you believe the decisions provided were supported by the evidence–based literature.
Be specific and provide examples. Be sure to support your response with evidence
and references from outside resources.
• What were you hoping to achieve with the decisions you recommended for the patient
case study you were assigned? Support your response with evidence and references
from outside resources.
• Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with each of the
decisions and the results of the decision in the exercise. Describe whether they were
different. Be specific and provide examples