Course Categories Balance and Falls

Medicare Alphabet Soup for Outpatient Rehabilitation Practices: Navigating the Medicare Maze

Categories: Balance and Falls, Evidence Based Practice, Geriatrics, Hand Therapy, Lower Extremity Courses, Lower Quadrant Courses, Manual Therapy Courses, Medicare, Neuro Courses, Orthopedic, Orthotics, Pain, Spine Courses, Stress, Upper Extremity Courses, Upper Quadrant Courses

Medicare is an ever-changing landscape for outpatient physical therapists. From Functional Limitation Reporting, Manual Medical Review and Medicare caps, to outcome tools, probe and targeted audits, total time rules, maintenance, Merit-based Incentive Payment System, and documentation requirements, the regulations seem overwhelming. Learn how to navigate the Medicare maze. This course will provide a clear understanding of the Medicare Rules and regulations for outpatient physical and occupational therapy. Participants will develop a basic understanding of the audit process and how to position oneself for success in an audit situation. This course will cover the issues that therapists find most confusing.

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Stress, Movement, and Pain: A Systematic Approach

Categories: Balance and Falls, Evidence Based Practice, Geriatrics, Neuro Courses, Orthopedic, Pain, Stress

Whether you practice in outpatient, in-patient, acute care, orthopedics or neurology nearly all your patients are experiencing stress and it is fundamentally affecting how they move and perceive the world and themselves.

This seminar is designed to advance clinical competence in working with the neurological and musculoskeletal issues centered around the neuroscience of stress and movement
through the application of current clinical evidence. We will identify the relationship between perception, the autonomic nervous system, the HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis, and movement to create a foundation for proper intervention. This foundation will then be used to develop assessment and treatment approaches to pathology associated with stress and movement.

Designed for the clinician not interested in the status quo; you will learn how to improve your patient outcomes regardless of specialty or condition because the science of stress, perception, and movement is foundational to all human experience.

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Gait Recovery and Orthotic Management in Rehabilitation in Adults with Neurological Injury or Disease

Categories: Balance and Falls, Evidence Based Practice, Geriatrics, Lower Extremity Courses, Lower Quadrant Courses, Neuro Courses, Orthotics

This course will provide participants with essential tools for examination and evaluation of gait in adults with neurological injury or disease, with the end goal of determining appropriate therapeutic interventions and/or orthotic management to maximize gait recovery. Stroke will be the diagnosis emphasized in the course because of its prevalence, but the course will also address gait dysfunction and recovery in spinal cord injury, Parkinson ’s disease, multiple sclerosis, peripheral neuropathy, and other neuromuscular disorders. Common gait deviations and trends in gait recovery will be discussed. Evidence based activity, exercise, and orthotic interventions specific to the rehabilitation and recovery of gait will be presented. Participants will have opportunities to see and handle orthotic examples and practice application of information through video and paper patient cases.

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The Foot and Ankle Complex

Categories: Balance and Falls, Evidence Based Practice, Lower Extremity Courses, Manual Therapy Courses, Orthopedic, Orthotics, Pain

The foot and ankle comprise one of the most fascinating and complex areas of human anatomy and divine engineering. Dysfunction in this anatomical region can be difficult to assess, and the same physiological movements often are referenced using several different terms. Foot function can influence lower quarter kinematics and kinetics, as well as lower quarter function having the potential to influence foot kinematics and kinetics. The purpose of this program is to enhance the ability to: understand the biomechanics of this anatomic region; assess foot, ankle, and selected aspects of lower quarter dysfunction accurately; and plan and implement appropriate treatment regimens for these pathologies, including the use of foot orthoses and shoewear.

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Stroke Rehabilitation Across the Continuum of Care: An Evidence Based Approach

Categories: Balance and Falls, Evidence Based Practice, Geriatrics, Lower Extremity Courses, Lower Quadrant Courses, Neuro Courses, Upper Extremity Courses, Upper Quadrant Courses

This course will provide participants with essential tools for clinical examination and intervention of persons following a stroke, across the continuum of care. Common impairments, activity restrictions, and participation limitations will be discussed. Evidence based interventions specific to the rehabilitation and recovery of basic mobility following stroke will be presented. Participants will have opportunities to see and work through examples and practice application of information through lecture and hands on labs.

Course Dates & Locations:

Jan 19, 2019 – Jan 20, 2019
600 NW Murray Rd., Kansas City (Lee's Summit), MO 640081
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Lee's Summit Medical Center – Summit Ridge campus
600 NW Murray Rd., Kansas City (Lee's Summit), MO 640081
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The NeuroVestibular Complex

Categories: Balance and Falls, Evidence Based Practice, Geriatrics, Lower Extremity Courses, Lower Quadrant Courses, Neuro Courses

This hands-on course is designed to bridge the gap between evaluation and treatment of adult patients with balance disorders associated with vestibular dysfunction.

Course Dates & Locations:

Dec 8, 2018 – Dec 9, 2018
1935 Don Wickham Drive., Orlando (Clermont), FL 34711
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NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER
1935 Don Wickham Drive., Orlando (Clermont), FL 34711
www.southlakehospital.com

(on the campus of South Lake Hospital)

http://www.usantc.com/

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Fairfield Inn and Suites Clermont
1750 Hunt Trace Boulevard
Clermont, FL
352-394-6585
(0.2 miles away)

Hampton Inn and Suites Clermont
2200 E Highway 50
Clermont, FL
352-536-6600
(0.5 miles away)

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Building Better Balance and Preventing Falls

Categories: Balance and Falls, Evidence Based Practice, Geriatrics, Neuro Courses

This two-day course provides participants with skills and strategies to address the complex problems of balance dysfunction and falls in geriatric and neurologic clients. Participants will further develop their skills in identifying individuals at risk for falls and conducting a comprehensive evaluation to guide intervention. Assessment skills based on key risk factors for balance dysfunction and objective outcomes will be emphasized. Evidence-based and best practice treatment strategies provide participants with a variety of skills to address different aspects of balance dysfunction. The course will also focus on utilization of standardized assessment measures and treatment strategies across client functional levels. Assessment procedures and treatment techniques will be demonstrated and reinforced with hands on practice time and case studies to allow for integration of the material.