Full Course Description
2-Day: Fall Prevention Specialist Certificate Course: Fall-proof Your Patients with Today's Best Practices
Program Information
Objectives
- Integrate the latest advances in fall prevention and the most current changes form the CDC into your practice.
- Employ comprehensive assessments to identify issues with balance, visual-spatial functioning, proprioception and other root causes of fall risk.
- Assess available interventions so you can choose the appropriate ones for safely restoring balance, mobility and function in patients with varying root causes of fall risk.
- Integrate multiple approaches and exercise programs for better outcomes with fallers and patients at high-risk of falling.
- Determine the safest landing strategies that your patients can employ to reduce the impact of falls.
- Develop home exercise programs for patients so they can build strength and coordination.
- Utilize tips to recognize abnormal gait patterns in fallers.
- Employ ideas and plans that will protect older adults, patients using oxygen, and others at high-risk of falling from injury.
- Evaluate parameters for safely intensifying rehab with patients who fall.
- Apply best practices for educating and engaging non-compliant patients to reduce their risk of falling.
- Investigate evidence-based fall prevention programs that can be used in your facility.
- Evaluate home-based risk factors that contribute to falls and determine how these risk factors can be mitigated.
Outline
HOT TOPICS AND INNOVATIONS IN FALL PREVENTION
- What fall prevention will look like in 1, 5, and 10 years
HANDS-ON LAB: PREDICT AND PREVENT FALLS WITH A COMPREHENSIVE RISK ASSESSMENT
- Practice today’s best evaluations for:
- Balance
- Visual-spatial function
- Sensory-motor integration
- Proprioception
- Vestibular function
- Gait and mobility
- Age-related degeneration
- Home safety
- Pharmacological side effects
HANDS-ON LAB: EXPAND YOUR REHAB TOOLBOX FOR FALL PREVENTION AND POST-FALL REHAB
- Practice effective techniques you can use immediately to:
- Restore balance, mobility, and function
- Minimize fall impact and injury
- Treat dizziness and vertigo
- Improve multitasking, coordination, and gait
- Resolve vision problems that contribute to falls
- Boost cognition, memory, and focus
- Reduce environmental fall risks
HAND-ON LAB: INTEGRATE MULTIPLE APPROACHES FOR BETTER OUTCOMES
- Practice combining:
- Balance and gait training
- Vestibular rehabilitation
- Gaze stabilization
- Multitasking interventions
- Musculoskeletal soft tissue techniques
- Graded motor imagery
- Home exercise programming
- Nutrition
- Environmental modification
- Safety reminders
- Orthotics and gait devices
- Clinical applications of neuroplasticity
HANDS-ON LAB: DESIGN ROBUST, INNOVATIVE PLANS OF CARE FOR YOUR PATIENTS
- Practice developing treatment strategies for high risk patients with specific impairments, including:
- Traumatic brain injury
- Stroke
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Spinal cord injury
- Diabetes
- Pain
- Age-related changes
KEYS TO SUCCESSFULLY TREATING NONCOMPLIANT PATIENTS AND ENLISTING FAMILY SUPPORT
ARE YOU LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE?
- Coding and billing updates for fall prevention and post-fall rehab
- Justify rehab with the right progress measures and documentation
- Avoid denials and audits with these tips
CASE STUDIES: PUT KNOWLEDGE TO PRACTICE
- Case study 1: Evaluate a client’s home for extrinsic risk factors
- Case study 2: Apply advanced balance training and multi-tasking techniques
- Case study 3: Integrate visual testing and gaze stabilization
- Case study 4: Navigate pharmacological side effects and comorbidities
- Case study 5: Overcome barriers to effective strategy implementation
DEVELOP AN EFFECTIVE FALL PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR YOUR FACILITY
BECOME YOUR REGION’S GO-TO FALL PREVENTION SPECIALIST
- The insider’s guide to specialization and professional networking
- Build referrals faster: effectively market your fall prevention program
Target Audience
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Physician Assistants
- Nurse Practitioners
- Nurses
- Nursing Home Administrators
Copyright :
08/15/2019
Gait Strategies: How the Determinants of Gait Impact Function, Mobility & Safety
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the 6 Determinants of gait and how they impact the phases of gait and reduce energy expenditure during gait.
- Investigate current evidence justifying the utilization of the 6 determinants of gait in the clinical setting.
- Demonstrate activities, exercises, and treatment strategies to improve each of the 6 determinants of gait.
Outline
History of gait study and development
Energy Expenditure vs. conservation
Determinants-Phase-Curtate Cycloid
Metabolic cost of transport
What the “phases of gait” neglect
Why people don’t fall during “gait”
Research justifying each determinant of gait
Sit-Stand
- Ab Ball Press
- Pelvic Teeter Totter
Lateral Pelvic Tilt
Knee Flexion at Midstance
Knee/Ankle/Foot Interactions
- Soleus stretch
- Gastroclock
Pelvic Rotation/Hip Flexion
- Seated Rotation
- Iliopsoa stretch
Reciprocal Arm Swing
Reciprocal Patterns
Target Audience
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Athletic Trainers
Copyright :
07/25/2019
Empower Clients with Mobility Impairments: Using Technology to Improve Quality of Life
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine the role of the health care provider in procuring assistive technology
- Distinguish the pros and cons of both power and manual wheelchairs
- Assess at least 3 different applications of Bluetooth technology in improving independence in power wheelchair users
Outline
- Introduction to assistive technology
- Provide definitions and examples of assistive technology pertaining to wheelchair users (both simple add-on devices such as luggage carriers or cup holders, to complex such as a power-assist device or alternative power wheelchair controls)
- Provide guidelines for equipment ordering process, including guidelines for insurance coverage based on the device and the patient’s diagnosis
- Discuss alternative funding sources or community organizations that can help with access to assistive technology options
- Define wheelchair classifications, manual and power
- Discuss modifications necessary within a person’s home and transportation to accommodate manual versus power wheelchairs
- Provide overview of power assist options for manual wheelchair users – a hybrid between power and manual
- Provide outline of new power wheelchair features that utilize Bluetooth technology
- Present and discuss case study for practical application of specific devices for a power wheelchair user
- Questions & answers
Target Audience
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Athletic Trainers
Copyright :
07/26/2019