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Track I: Diagnosis and Management of Shoulder Tendinopathy
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| Speaker: Lori Michener, PhD, PT, ATC, SCS - biography |
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This course will provide a review of evidence for the diagnosis and management of patients with shoulder tendinopathy. The patho-anatomical basis of the evaluation and treatment interventions used by physical therapists will be provided.
Evidence will be reviewed for the diagnostic utility of the history and physical examination tests used to diagnosis shoulder pain. The current evidence of the effectiveness of nonsurgical interventions for shoulder tendinopathy will be presented.
Outcome tools will be presented to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment interventions for patients with shoulder tendinopathies.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the patho-anatomic factors of shoulder tendinopathy
- Perform an evidence-based examination of the shoulder for diagnosing and screening for shoulder tendinopathy
- Understand the evidence for the diagnostic utility of the history and physical examination tests for shoulder tendinopathy
- Use the evidence to select appropriate interventions, including exercise and manual therapy, for patients with shoulder tendinopathy
- Generate an evidence-based treatment program for shoulder tendinopathy
- Identify and understand the use of self-report outcome tools to assess treatment effectiveness for shoulder tendinopathy
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Track II:
Optimizing Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Performance During PT
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| Speaker: Dianne V. Jewell, PT, DPT, PhD, CCS - biography |
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This course illustrates the relevance of health-related physical fitness principles in physical therapy adult patient management. Methods for assessing fitness and developing appropriate exercise prescriptions in a variety of clinical settings will be reviewed.
Participants will then work in groups to apply the material by developing plans of care using hypothetical patient scenarios.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the components of health-related physical fitness and their measurements
- Discuss the application of a variety of exercise capacity assessment methods in different clinical settings
- Discuss the components of an exercise prescription and their measurements in different clinical settings
- Integrate health-related physical fitness components into the examination process for a variety of hypothetical patient scenarios across different clinical settings
- Develop a plan of care that includes health-related physical fitness components for a variety of hypothetical patient scenarios across different clinical settings
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Track III: PT for Infant's Born Preterm: Supporting Development in the NICU and Community
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| Speaker: Stacey C. Dusing, PT, PhD - biography |
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The rate of preterm birth continues to increase in the United States. Infants born preterm are at an increased risk of developmental delay, developmental coordination disorder, and minor neurological dysfunctions.
Physical therapists frequently evaluate and treat infants born preterm in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), follow-up clinics, and early intervention programs.
This presentation will review the developmental outcomes of infants born preterm and physical therapy evaluations tools for use in the NICU and community.
A theoretical framework relating postural control to motor development will be described.
Recent evidence on the efficacy of physical therapy interventions in the NICU and community will be presented.
A series for case studies will be presented highlighting the use of standardized assessment and evidence-based practice in the evaluation and treatment of infants born preterm in the first year of life.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify 3 common developmental outcomes following preterm birth
- Describe the role of the physical therapist in evaluating and treating infants in the NICU and community
- Explain the relationship between early experiences and motor development
- Identify 2 assessment tools used to evaluate infants born preterm and describe how they can impact clinical practice
- Describe an evidence-based evaluation and treatment plan for an infant born preterm in the NICU or community
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Track IV: Best Evidence Interventions for the Spine and Pelvis
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| Speakers: Eric Hegedus, PT, DPT, MHSc, OCS - biography |
| Chad Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, OCS, FAAOMPT - biography |
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In clinical practice, physical therapists use a number of interventions for the care of patients with spine and pelvis dysfunction. Recent advances in research have outlined which interventions provide the greatest impact on recovery.
Improvements in measures of evidence have allowed comparisons of approaches across disparate studies. Furthermore, evidence regarding classification groups suggests that some interventions are more useful than others when patients are clustered into like-type groups.
The focus of this course is to provide a method of treatment classification and an understanding of which interventions provide the highest magnitude (best evidence) for recovery from spine and pelvis injuries.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Cluster patients using a treatment-based classification
- Understand effect-size measures of magnitude and recognize the usefulness of this measure for determining best evidence of interventions
- Discuss the frequency of use of current interventions in clinical practice
- Advocate for best practice interventions for physical therapy practice
- Apply selected techniques for clinical integration
- Compare and contrast current levels of evidence in cervical, thoracic, low back, and pelvis pain
- Compare and contrast outcomes using classification versus nonclassification
- Discuss future research needs for substantiation of conservative approaches to care
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Track V: Improving Walking Recovery for Patients With Stroke and Spinal Cord Injury
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| Speakers: Mark Bowden, PT, PhD - biography |
| Pamela W. Duncan, PPT, PhD, FAPTA, FAHA - biography |
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Part one of this course will focus on the anatomic and biomechanical underpinnings of walking recovery with a focus on the mechanisms of recovery of functional performance.
Integral to this discussion is the understanding of the difference between compensatory approaches to improved function versus restoration of pre-morbid walking patterns and activity levels. This discussion will include neurological, biomechanical, cardiovascular, and peripheral muscle adaptations to improved walking performance.
Part one will conclude with a review of the evidence-based approaches to walking recovery and examine the level of evidence for differing approaches. The discussion will highlight the state of evidence for locomotor training, incorporating body-weight support and walking on a treadmill—both with manual and robotic assistance.
Part two of this course will review the trajectory of function and walking recovery post stroke and identify modifiable risk factors for declines for walking recovery. The presentation will recommend methods for improving walking recovery programs in community-based rehabilitation. Part two will also review and recommend methods for standardized assessment of outcomes for both stroke and spinal core walking recovery programs.
The presentation will end by discussing the challenges and barriers to implementing best practice models for walking recovery into routine practice and recommend "barrier busters."
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the neurological and biomechanical bases for walking recovery in spinal cord injury and stroke
- Apply the principles of training for walking recovery as founded in the animal literature and translated into human studies
- Utilize principles of recovery and compensation in differing approaches to locomotor rehabilitation and discuss the principles in the context of clinical decision making
- Discuss the best available evidence for walking rehabilitation programs for individuals with spinal cord injury and stroke
- Discuss walking rehabilitation recovery programs throughout the continuum of care using stroke rehabilitation as a model
- Incorporate and interpret clinical and emerging outcome measures for walking recovery after spinal cord injury and stroke
- Analyze the gaps between evidence and implementation
- Discuss ways to translate best practice models into clinical rehabilitation
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Track VI: Cash Practice: Positioning Your Practice for Long-Term Sustainability
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| Speakers: Jennifer M. Gamboa, PT, DPT, OCS - biography |
| Nancy T. White, PT, MS, OCS - biography |
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This course will present the rationale and business model for a full-spectrum, cash-based musculoskeletal health, wellness, and rehabilitation clinic.
Participants will learn specific strategies for overcoming roadblocks, as well as techniques for designing, marketing, and implementing health promotion, fitness, and wellness services.
The model and strategies presented are based on the speakers' own experiences in a successful, multidisciplinary cash practice in Arlington, Virginia.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Define the elements of client-centered practice development
- Describe the relationship of an integrated physical therapy practice to the health promotion, wellness, and fitness marketplace
- Identify the distinguishing business features of integrated cash practice
- Identify the barriers to and solutions for entering the integrated cash practice marketplace
- Prepare a project plan for all phases of new service development and implementation
- Identify the elements of and develop specific strategies for change management within a practice
- Implement management tools to transition employees to practice stakeholders
- Implement a practical fitness assessment tool to introduce health promotion/fitness lines of service
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