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3 Key Trigger Point Treatments to Enhance Core Activation

Brian Trzaskos, PT, LMT, CSCS, CMP, MI-C

According to the Global Burden of Disease, low back pain is the single leading cause of disability worldwide with Americans spending at least $50 billon each year on back pain issues. Current research is revealing the broad ineffectiveness of pharmaceutical strategies and strongly suggests that successfully treating the multifactorial nature of back pain requires an integrative approach including the use of neuromuscular manual techniques. In addition, it has been shown that deep core musculature activation is enhanced by normalization of superficial core muscle tone. This workshop will outline the physiologic basis for neuromuscular treatments and instruct key trigger point techniques to help practitioners effectively normalize global muscle tone and initiate deep core muscle activation immediately with their patients.Highlights Immediately improve your clients' low back pain, initiate deep core musculature activation, and increase ADL function

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1 hour - Provided by Summit Professional Education

Optimizing Functional Movement

Lori Duncan, DPT, MTC, CPT

As therapists, optimizing functional movement is a high concern to keep our patients healthy, active, safe, and independent. It is imperative to not put patients in the "old box" (or any box for that matter) and understand that every human body wants to feel the best it can at any age. This workshop will teach therapists how to easily evaluate and treat the following movements: thoracic rotation, plank hover, trunk roll-up and squat. Once evaluated, patients and therapists will experience the immediate positive changes in the system including balance, breathing, gait, shoulder health, back health, and functional transfers. This workshop will teach participants how to improve four foundational movements that are critical to master at any age. Through an active easy-to-follow lab, participants will learn how to assess and treat these movements that are easy to teach at any age. Participants will take away modifications and tips to help teach patients the next day how to improve these four functional movements.Highlights Immediately improve your patient’s function, safety, and independence with four specific, easy-to-learn movements through an active lab Strategies to improve breathing, back health, bed transfers, gait, and other ADL’s

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2 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

Exercise in Geriatric Rehabilitation

Nicole Dawson, PT, PhD, GCS

The latest practice analysis identifies over 53% of rehabilitation patients are over the age of 65 years. Many of these older adults have functional limitations due to the fact that older adults are generally less physically active than their younger counterparts or due to difficulties returning to normal function following illness or injury. Exercise is a non- pharmacological intervention that can have beneficial effects on multiple domains of function. However, the application of exercise by health care professionals is often under-dosed leading to minimal changes in this patient population. Older adults can pose unique challenges for clinicians due to their sedentary lifestyle and potential for complex medical history. Rehabilitation professionals are experts in movement science and should play an integral role in prescription of appropriate physical activity to ensure maximal levels of success with older adults, so we need to do better for this new majority of patients. This course will provide you with a better understanding of primary aging processes that may affect an older adult's functional status. An evidence-based approach for exercise prescription will be discussed to ensure that exercise science principles are used during plan of care development.Highlights Practical application of exercise prescription in older adults that you can use the next day Effective, evidence-based interventions to ensure positive outcomes in older adults

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2 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

Getting it Right: Therapy Prescription and Dosage

Andy Parsons PT, DPT, OCS

Therapists are aware appropriately prescribed exercise programs can have many meaningful benefits to our patients. Unfortunately, many studies show that therapists are often not providing strenuous enough programs to elicit a physiological response that would be sufficient to provide functional change. Considering this, the American Physical Therapy Association identified under dosage as one of the five top problems that needed to change in the Choosing Wisely initiative. Rehab clinicians must maximize dosage each session in a reimbursement environment that demands results in fewer sessions to improve their patients' quality of life. This course will describe practical clinical tools for understanding and maximizing dosage with therapy patients in all settings. Practical assessment and reassessment strategies for loading that you and your patients can implement easily will be explored.Highlights Immediately improve your ability to properly load and progress exercise programs using objective measures and patient response to dictate treatment to promote restored function, strength, and independence in daily activities. Maximize clinical and functional outcomes by implementing new strategies to maximize dosage in a reimbursement environment that demands you get results in a fewer number of sessions Practical assessment and re-assessment strategies for loading that you and your patients can implement easily to maximize functional gains. Integrate learning with engaging case exper...

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2 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

Evidence-Based Rehabilitation Using Tai Chi

Brian Trzaskos, PT, LMT, CSCS, CMP, MI-C

The CDC reports that, "each year, 3 million older people are treated in emergency departments and over 800,000 patients are hospitalized because of falling, resulting in about $50 billion in medical costs related to non-fatal fall injuries and $754 million spent related to fatal falls." In older adults, falls are the leading cause of traumatic brain injuries and fractures. While physical injuries associated with unintentional falls are well documented, the psychological costs are less obvious and more persistent. Studies reveal that up to 50% of people with a fear of falling restrict or eliminate social and physical activity because of that fear. Presently, the combination of an aging population, shrinking third party reimbursements, and Medicare non-payment for hospital related falls and traumas guarantees that cost effective and high return on investment services will become of increasing value.Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese exercise method, requiring no special equipment and shown to improve cognitive skills, memory, psychological wellness, strength, flexibility, immune function, and balance; and is now being advocated by the CDC and Harvard Medical School for fall prevention and functional improvement programs. This interactive 6-hour course offers participants the opportunity to experience the practice and principles of Tai Chi as they apply to balance and functional rehabilitation. Upon completion, attendees will have new, effective, evidence-based, and insurance reim...

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6 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

Therapeutic Exercise and Manual Therapy

Alex Siyufy DPT, ATC, SCS, Cert. MDT, Cert. DN

Do you know which exercises will "best" recruit the rotator cuff musculature? The gluteals? This workshop is designed to provide the medical professional with an understanding of research findings combined with clinically relevant therapeutic exercise and manual therapy techniques. This workshop will provide extensive hands-on lab time in order to practice and refine your manual therapy skills. While exercises are often beneficial, individuals are often assigned too many exercises with excessive parameters and this can be ineffective.This workshop will enhance the clinician's critical reasoning process by providing the most recent advances to further enhance evidence-informed practice. Each participant will receive a comprehensive workshop manual with multiple summary tables that detail "take home" findings from the research studies. Expand your toolbox and learn manual therapy techniques to deactivate trigger points. The exercises and manual therapy techniques taught can be immediately implemented into practice with patients, athletes and clients.HighlightsEffectively combine manual therapy and therapeutic exercises to improve functional outcomes in patients and optimize reimbursementPractice myofascial release techniques that relieve pain and improve ROM in your patients in 60-90 secondsPractical and creative exercises for the shoulder impingement and the rotator cuff to mobilize the joint and improve functional reachWorkshop manual that spans the research and includes cust...

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6 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

Strengthening Core Stability

Lori Duncan, PT, DPT, MTC, CPT

Mobility on stability is one of the most important aspects of efficient and pain-free function and Pilates is a powerful tool to accomplish this concept. With most exercises "off the ground," Pilates safely teaches dissociation of movement, intrinsic stability and effective breathing that will improve balance, posture, gait and decrease fall risk. Each exercise has multiple benefits including stability, ROM and strength allowing the patient to spend less time on HEP while improving functional outcomes. Pilates is magic for the neuromuscular system, effectively teaching patients how to move their body through space for optimal function.This one-day, interactive workshop will teach over 50 exercises for optimal dissociation of movement with emphasis on trunk stability for safe weight-bearing activity. Participants will learn how to apply the 6 Pilates Principles to all therapeutic exercises to enhance home exercise plan compliance and optimize reimbursement. Modifications and progressions to each exercise will be demonstrated with hands-on lab-based learning and assessment. Participants will increase their knowledge of breathing, true core activation and be able to teach their patients the next day.HighlightsInnovative, proven methods to strengthen the core inpatients with common orthopedic injuries, post-operative rehab, fall risks, and chronic painEffective, evidence-based therapeutic exercises for the whole body to improve posture, balance, and gaitImmediately improve your c...

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6 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

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