Evidence-Based Techniques to Build Your Parkinson's Disease Toolbox

Meredith Roberts, PT, DPT

Online Course

Includes all course content in digital format

Prerequisites Required
6 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

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Description

Patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease can get better and stay better; however, no two people with Parkinson's are alike. This presents unique challenges to the therapist spanning physical, emotional, cognitive and socialdomains. All too often therapists are not equipped with the proper knowledge on how to adapt and create the most optimal assessment and exercise plan for patients with Parkinson's disease. With the proper knowledge, the therapist can obtain consistent positive outcomes and empower your clients to live their best life.

This hands-on workshop will provide therapists with practical and effective tools to make a difference the next session with a patient with Parkinson's disease. Participants will understand the barriers to obtaining positive outcomes and leap over them with hands-on application, case study review and discussion. Participants will leave with the confidence to produce evidence-based interventions that will improve therapeutic outcomes while working with patients with Parkinson's disease.

Highlights

  • Immediately improve your clients functional mobility and ADLs using practical and effective treatment techniques
  • Become knowledgeable of the latest research and pharmacological considerations for Parkinson's disease
  • Learn how to convert your assessment into successful treatment strategies that produce positive outcomes in each session
  • Hands-on lab training to address the most challenging symptoms including freezing of gait, duel tasking and other physical, cognitive, and emotional barriers
  • Effective, evidence-based assessment and exercise treatment that produce continued results after clients leave your clinic
  • Case studies using examples typical and atypical of Parkinson's in order to utilize techniques the next day

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify physical, cognitive and emotional barriers and apply strategies to produce results.
  2. Utilize current research practices and pharmacological considerations for the management of freezing and duel tasking.
  3. Implement effective assessment, measures and goal setting tools that measure change in Parkinson's disease.
  4. Develop effective exercise treatment strategies to improve motor control and ADLs.
  5. Determine the best community exercise program and other resources to produce positive outcomes.
  6. Establish the best implementation plan for optimal results in the continuum of care.

Course Content

Evidence-Based Techniques to Build Your Parkinson's Disease Toolbox
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Module
  1. Parkinson's Disease - Setting the Stage For Optimal Success
    1. Typical and atypical Parkinson's disease
    2. The physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges
  2. The Latest Research and Pharmacological Considerations
    1. The keys to using exercise as medicine
    2. Current research and best practice review
    3. How medications control symptoms
    4. What’s new in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  3. implement Effective Assessment and Goal Setting Tools that Measure Change in Parkinson's Disease
    1. Specific assessments for Parkinson’s disease
    2. Getting good numbers every time
  4. Exercise Interventions to Facilitate Optimal Motor Control and ADLs
    1. Improving rigidity and posture
    2. Improving power and speed of movement
    3. Improving fullness of movement and accuracy
    4. Addressing freezing
    5. The duel task debate
    6. Balance and postural control
  5. The Role of Community Exercise - Using the Right Resources
    1. What's all the fuss about
    2. Developing successful partnerships and collaborations
    3. The top therapy toys for your clinic
    4. Resources for you and your clients
  6. Implementation and Strategies for the Continuum of Care
    1. Implementation plan
    2. Documentation
    3. Case study
Meredith Roberts Lo, PT, DPT, has been specializing in neurorehabilitation since 2005. Her passion for working with the Parkinson's community began with a class on Parkinson's Wellness Recovery or PWR! where she learned the art and science behind treating this unique group. Since then Meredith has trained and worked alongside the top rehab professionals and movement disorder specialists in the country. She has attended multiple unique training workshops such as PWR!, Allied Team in Training, and John Argue. She has practiced as a Parkinson's specific physical therapist in multiple settings. She continues to be an active member of the APTA and the degenerative disease special interest group. Currently, she has founded Roberts Empowered Movement Center where she provides Parkinson's specific physical therapy. She has also founded the nonprofit, Parkinson's Pointe, to support the Parkinson's community through education, community exercise and the development of resiliency in Denver, Colorado. Meredith began teaching as a neuro rehabilitation assistant professor in 2008 and has since been teaching CEU courses for the therapy community. Meredith's love for teaching and mentoring inspires her to continue to share her experience with her peer's in hopes of stamping out Parkinson's disease.

DISCLOSURES

FINANCIAL: Meredith Roberts Lo is compensated as the owner of Roberts Empowered Movement Center LLC as well as by Summit as an instructor.

NONFINANCIAL: Meredith Roberts Lo has no nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

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