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Enough time has passed and your client meets the medically ready criteria for return to activity, but your gut is telling you that your client is not functionally ready. 

With so much on the line, not just your client's post-injury performance ability and your own liability exposure... 

You need evidence-based objective criteria with step-by-step orthopedic recovery strategies to provide the skills and confidence to treat your clients for rapid, safe recovery and to protect your liability

Whether you treat athletes, post-op patients, workers’ comp cases, geriatric patients or clients with repetitive stress injuries... 

This course includes best practice and up-to-date solutions so you can get your clients on a recovery path for functional healing, rapid return to activity, enhanced performance after injury and much more

Join thousands of chiropractors, physical therapists, athletic trainers and rehab clinicians like you... 

They’ve applied our strategies and found transformational results for their immobile, injured or geriatric patients – not just athletes!

Orthopedic Recovery & Emerging Modalities: Objective Criteria for Return to Activity for Knee and Shoulder Injuries, Cupping Therapy, Blood Flow Restriction Training

$419.93 Value
Just $219.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!

Plus, earn up to 13.5 CE Hours! Click here for Credit details.


Change your practice and change your life...

As a rehabilitation professional, you often wear multiple hats: prevention, emergency care, acute and chronic care, strength and conditioning, performance enhancement and more.

Filled with robust strategies for every hat you wear, this course is broken down into 7 easy-to-digest sessions and provides practical strategies that you can easily apply in clinic right away:

  • Functional testing algorithm for clinical decision making following an injury
  • Step by step guide for returning to activity (applicable for work AND sports!)
  • A better understanding of the various types of myofascial cups and their unique uses
  • Targeted myofascial cupping techniques and their connection to clinical issues
  • Concise framework to use the tools you already own – and likely overlook!
  • Progression and regression strategies for therapeutic exercise
  • New evidence-based interventions that greatly reduce post-op muscle atrophy, without putting too much stress on the joints and tendons

For more detailed information on all 7 sessions: Click here for course objectives and outline, or scroll below....

 
Myofascial Therapy: Program Design to Promote Flexibility & Function Across the Lifespan
Theresa A. Schmidt, PT, DPT, MS, OCS, LMT, CEAS | {1014854_Theresa_SchmidtWithBio}.

Improve your patients’ quality of life by incorporating myofascial therapy into rehab. Gain breakthrough evidence-based techniques that you can use to achieve improved flexibility and function with video demonstrations and interventions you can apply immediately. This session will teach you how to transform activity limitations and promote function across the lifespan.

Fascial System: Function and Anatomy

  • How fascia is organized
  • How adhesions develop
  • Indications and contraindications for myofascial release (MFR)

Identify Fascial Impairments

  • Types of fascial impairments
  • Diagnostic categories
  • Differential diagnosis of myofascial pain, fibromyalgia, myositis, trigger point

Myofascial Interventions

  • Improve mobility
  • Improve function
  • Reduce pain
  • Demonstrations of: skin glide, skin roll, cross hands release, muscle plan, distraction and deep releases
 
Myofascial Cupping Therapy: Obtaining Rapid Return of Functional Mobility
Theresa A. Schmidt, PT, DPT, MS, OCS, LMT, CEAS | {1014854_Theresa_SchmidtWithBio}.

Learn evidence-based cupping therapy techniques for releasing scar tissue and fascial adhesions, managing trigger points, improving circulation and relieving pain. You’ll leave this session with the knowledge of how to apply cupping therapy and specialized manual therapy tools into program design to treat a variety of conditions…with measurable results! Create raving fans of clients who benefit from enhanced flexibility and function.

Cupping Therapy

  • History of negative pressure
  • Equipment safety
  • Infection control
  • Precautions
  • Indications and contraindications
  • Myofascial release principles
  • Evidence-based research

Application of Cupping Therapy

  • Medical cupping applications
  • Demonstrations: skin glide, scar release
  • Program design for specific clinical conditions
  • Case study: cupping for adhesive capsulitis
 
The Injured Shoulder: The Strategies, Testing & Criteria to Determine When to Return to Activity
George Davies, DPT, MED, PT, SCS, ATC, LAT, CSCS, PES, FAPTA | Click here for information about George Davies.

Although we have been dealing with shoulder injuries in sports for 40 years, there is no validity or consensus on criteria for return to sports (RTS). The session will provide a practical guide for how testing should be performed, what tests and criteria should be used, and why these criteria need to be established using a Functional Testing Algorithm (FTA). Don’t miss this crucial session that will provide you with a step-by-step path for determining when to return to activity!

Assessing the injured shoulder

  • Functional testing algorithm (FTA)
  • Developing a checklist

Return to Activity

  • Traditional tests
  • Functional tests
  • Criteria for return to sport

Develop treatment interventions

  • Progression through rehabilitation program
  • Treatment interventions for addressing deficiencies
  • Case study: Shoulder impingement that wasn’t shoulder impingement
 
Knee Injuries: A Step-by-Step Guide for Deciding When to Return to Activity
George Davies, DPT, MED, PT, SCS, ATC, LAT, CSCS, PES, FAPTA | Click here for information about George Davies.

Patients with ACL reconstructions are often anxious to return to sports…however, when to return is not always obvious and often second-guessed. This recording will provide a blueprint of how to effectively make this decision with confidence. You’ll learn how testing should be performed, what tests and criteria should be used and why these criteria need to be established using a Functional Testing Algorithm (FTA). This is a can’t-miss recording with practical takeaways you can apply right away!

Functional Testing Algorithm (FTA)

  • Various strategies required to assess an injured knee
  • Content and rationale for developing a checklist (FTA)

Assessing the Lower Extremity

  • Traditional tests
  • Functional tests
  • Clinical decision making and return to sport

Develop Treatment Interventions

  • Interventions to address deficiencies
  • Progression through the FTA
  • Case study: knee injury with a chronic PF subluxation
 
Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) – An Emerging Breakthrough in Rehab Care
Michael Lau, PT, DPT, CSCS | Click here for information about Michael Lau.

Learn about the greatest innovation for rehab providers in the 21st century. Discover how blood flow restriction training bio-hacks the body to achieve considerable increases in muscle size and strength while exercising with very light loads.

Evidence Supporting Blood Flow Restriction Training

  • Origins
  • Research trends
  • Latest meta analyses

Populations who benefit the most from BFR

  • Post-op, painful/load compromised, athletic endurance athletes
  • Validated with scientific evidence
  • Uses across sports medicine continuum

How Blood Flow Restriction Training Works

  • Muscle cell physiology
  • Metabolic pathways
  • Hypertrophy/strength timelines
  • Energy systems
  • Mechanical vs metabolic stimulus
  • Force-velocity relationship
  • Muscle fiber recruitment

Local skeletal muscle adaptions

  • Cell swelling
  • Metabolite induced fatigue
  • Satellite cell proliferation
  • Hypoxia
  • Bone growth

Systematic adaptions

  • Cardiovascular system regulation
  • Pressor reflex
  • VO2max
  • VEGF
  • Soft tissue repair
  • Tendon repair
  • Muscle damage
  • Reduced pain

Indications and Contraindications of BFRT

  • Relative vs absolute contraindications
  • Thrombus and tPA

Placement of BFR Cuffs 

  • Tourniquet and Doppler application 
  • Avoidable tourniquet risks 
  • Importance of LOP assessment 
 
Blood Flow Restriction Training to Maximize Rehab Outcomes for All Patients
Michael Lau, PT, DPT, CSCS | Click here for information about Michael Lau.

Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) is the new game-changer in rehab and it can be programmed for all types of patients…whether it’s young post-op patients, geriatric patients, bedridden patients, or athletes trying to return to play. This can’t-miss session will provide a guide for how to utilize and program BFR depending on your patient’s goals.

From Bed Ridden to Return to Play: Differentiate the various forms of BFR

  • IPC
  • Cellular swelling
  • Aerobic BFR
  • Isolated BFR
  • Compound BFR
  • Protocols and Programming of BFR

Different uses of BFRT from young postoperative patients to geriatric patients with OA

  • Case examples
  • Match BFR application based on goal and patient
  • Compare BFR use for TKA, ALCr, tibial exocytosis, Achilles non-op, RTC

Programming based on goals: Manipulating the BFR variables

  • Onboarding: education is the key
  • Adjusting BFR and exercise parameters
  • BFR RT and aerobic guidelines
  • BFR programming guidelines
 
When Rehab & Fitness Collide: Proven Pre- & Post-Rehab Techniques & Interventions
Milica McDowell, MS, DPT | Click here for information about Milica McDowell.

Explore an evidence-based lecture and lab where we will play with concepts related to the use of foam rollers, mobility tools and vibration in your rehab practice! Foam rolling has come a long way, with numerous studies supporting the use of tissue mobilization as a pre- and post-rehab intervention that can enhance your existing practice. Interventional techniques for sports medicine and neuromuscular patients will be discussed. Join us for this blend of lecture and lab to expand your understanding of how these techniques can benefit your patient population whether you work with athletes or older adults!

Interventional Tools to Enhance Your Existing Practice

  • History of negative pressure
  • Equipment safety
  • Infection control
  • Precautions
  • Indications and contraindications
  • Myofascial release principles
  • Evidence-based research

Application of Cupping Therapy

  • Medical cupping applications
  • Demonstrations: skin glide, scar release
  • Program design for specific clinical conditions
  • Case study: cupping for adhesive capsulitis

Orthopedic Recovery CE Training for PT, DC, OT, AT and Rehab professionals

$419.93 Value
Just $219.99 Today — Unbelievable Savings!

CE Training for AT, OT, PT & Other Rehab Professionals! Click here for Credit details.

Frequently Asked Questions About This Course

This course totals over 13.5 hours in 7 sessions broken down into easy-to-digest video modules with comprehensive handouts that include timely case studies, problem-solution strategies, practical worksheets and countless interventions to address orthopedic recovery specific to knee injuries, shoulder injuries, flexibility, and mobility issues.

This course is designed for chiropractors and rehab professionals, and CE training for athletic trainers, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other rehab professionals.

Not only will you get over 13-hours of digital content — you'll walk away with a comprehensive guide of strategies you'll use throughout your career.

  • With over 13.5 hours of video online training, insightful commentary, case studies and examples, you will have powerful new strategies that you can immediately start applying in your practice! We encourage you to take the time to fully absorb everything. Watch the videos. Read the materials. Get your CE hours!
  • But, if you review all of the course materials and are still not satisfied, give us a call at 800-844-8260. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. We’re that confident you'll find this intensive course to be all that's promised and more than you expected.
  • Yes! Once you register for this self-directed course... the materials are yours to keep, access and review forever.
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Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on integrating rehab delivery in clinical practice, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.
 
Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 13.5 CE hours! Click here for Credit details.

 
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