Getting it Right: Therapy Prescription and Dosage

Andy Parsons PT, DPT, OCS

Online Course

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2 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

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Description

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 experiences to maximize learning for functional outcomes with patients.

Learning Objectives

  1. Examine loading paradigms to progress exercise programs using objective measures.
  2. Apply methods to obtain meaningful, functional goals from your patient to improve dosage and patient expectations.
  3. Implement dosage tools to maximize outcomes in clinical outcomes in a variety of patient populations.

Course Content

Getting it Right: Therapy Prescription and Dosage
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Module
  1. Therapy Prescription and Dosage
    1. Evidence-based practice
    2. Pain and exercise - Biopsychosocial model of pain
    3. Tendons and tendinopathy
    4. Mechanotherapy
    5. SINSS and factors affecting prescription
  2. Optimal Loading
    1. Getting patients to verbalize their meaningful perceived exertion for functional activity to assess and prescribe appropriate dosage
      1. Interactive case 1
    2. Resistance training application
    3. Dosage variables and application
    4. Exercise and pain - Can exercise be painful?
    5. Reassessment and progression
    6. The trajectory of function (movement, ADL/IADL)
    7. Home exercises - The marriage of dosage and adherence
      1. Interactive case 2
Andy Parsons, PT, DPT, OCS is a board-certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist. He completed his Doctor of Physical Therapy at the University of Toledo and his Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology from The Ohio State University. He has extensive clinical experience in outpatient physical therapy. His practice is based in Defiance, OH at a regional medical center with special interests in manual therapy, low back pain, hip pain, knee pain, tendinopathies, and vestibular therapy. Dr. Parsons has presented on topics including lower extremity rehabilitation, low back pain, vestibular rehab, and implementation of evidence-based practice for clinicians in day-to-day practice.

Currently, Dr. Parsons serves ProMedica Total Rehab on the evidence-based practice implementation team which helps guide evidence translation to rehab clinicians. This team has implemented guidelines on many topics including ACL rehab, low back pain, neck pain, DVT management, adhesive capsulitis, and achilles tendinopathy. The group's evidence implementation efforts were featured by PTinMotion magazine. Dr. Parsons has also been a guest lecturer for the University of Toledo speaking about low back pain best practice. Dr. Parsons enjoys blogging for several institutions encouraging advancement of musculoskeletal rehabilitation and research. Dr. Parsons is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association as well as APTA's Sports Section. You can find him at AndyParsonsDPT.com.


DISCLOSURES

FINANCIAL: Andy Parsons is compensated by Summit as an instructor.

NONFINANCIAL: Andy Parsons has no non-financial relationships to disclose.

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