Full Course Description

Build Strength, Mobility, and Flexibility with the Assessments, Evaluations, and Tests You Need Now

Are you spending too much time figuring out how to document geriatric function with insufficient time to enjoy what you do best: treating patients to maximize their quality of life? How do you efficiently select functional exam tools to develop the best plan of care for your patients?

In this interactive recording, practice fast and easy assessments for elders to that will simplify your documentation process, which in turn will effectively guides your treatment planning. Review evidence on best practices for implementing therapeutic interventions to manage mobility impairments, balance issues, falls, cognitive deterioration, stiffness, weakness and pathologies.

Gain skills to maximize function in aging adults across the spectrum, from the active sports enthusiast to the involved resident with multiple medical problems. Immediately design a rehab program for your geriatric patients that incorporates traditional and holistic therapy approaches. Start maximizing function, enhancing mobility, and decreasing pain with your patients today.

What You'll Need for this Recording:

  • Mat or massage table for hands-on practice
  • Tape measure and masking tape
  • Hand sanitizer and massage lotion
  • Blanket and pillow
  • Mobile laptop or cell phone with Internet access (Internet/WiFi is not provided)
  • Wear comfortable clothing (i.e., sneakers, sweatpants, and t-shirt)

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze physiological changes associated with aging.
  2. Determine and administer outcome measures to identify functional mobility and balance impairments in elders.
  3. Apply integrative interventions, including manual therapy, fascial release, joint mobilization, therapeutic exercise, balance and neuromuscular re-education, and functional training to improve functional capacity in elders.
  4. Analyze alternative medicine approaches to improve mobility and balance, to reduce pain, and to improve functional quality of life.
  5. Design an effective plan of care to produce a measurable difference in mobility, balance, pain and function.
  6. Practice skilled documentation to show functional change using standardized exams.
  7. Analyze current evidence regarding the efficacy of specific clinical interventions on functional outcomes in elders.

Outline

FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY AND BALANCE ASSESSMENT IN ELDERS

  • Balance definitions, systems and strategies
  • Aging process and epidemiology of falls
  • Risk factors in aging, medications, medical and degenerative processes

FUNCTION AND BALANCE ASSESSMENT

GAIT AND BALANCE ASSESSMENT TESTS

INTERVENTIONS TO ENHANCE BALANCE AND PREVENT FALLS

  • Exercise program design: Active Balance Clinic (ABC)
  • Tai Chi
  • OTAGO

EVIDENCE-BASED OUTCOMES

  • What studies say about balance tools and interventions
  • Fall reduction, rates and risks
  • AGS panel recommendations on balance

FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME TESTS DISCUSSION

  • Mini Mental Status Exam (MMSE)
  • Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)
  • Barthel Index
  • Self-Efficacy
  • Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS)
  • Functional Autonomy Measurement System (SMAF)

MUSCULOSKELETAL CHALLENGES

  • Lower extremity functional scales (LEFS)
  • Disabilities of the arm, shoulder and hand (DASH)
  • Measuring myofascial pain
  • Trigger points
  • Stiffness
  • Muscle weakness

INTERVENTIONS FOR PAIN REDUCTION, MOBILITY PROMOTION AND FUNCTION

  • Manual therapy
  • Neuromuscular techniques
  • Integrative medicine

IMPROVING MOBILITY, STRENGTH AND FUNCTION, AND REDUCING PAIN

  • Myofascial release
  • Positional release
  • Joint mobilization
  • Neuromuscular re-education

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AND HOLISTIC APPROACHES TO IMPROVE MOBILITY

  • Address behavioral and cognitive issues
  • Reduce pain in elders
  • Mindfulness
  • Massage
  • Relaxation induction
  • Craniosacral
  • Reiki

CASE STUDIES AND GROUP PROBLEM SOLVING

Target Audience

  • Physical Therapists
  • Physical Therapist Assistants
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Exercise Physiologists
  • Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists
  • Personal Trainers
  • Nurses
  • Nursing Home Administrators

Copyright : 04/03/2019

Designing a Rehab Program for Geriatric Patients

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Reducing Fall Risk in Older Adults

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Assessment of Gait and Balance Part 1

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Assessment of Gait and Balance Part 2

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Yes, You Can Apply Manual Therapy with the Elderly!

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The Many Benefits of Therapeutic Touch and Complementary/Alternative Medicine for Seniors

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Advances in Functional Aging: Becoming a Fall Prevention Specialist

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Working with the Older Patient: Aerobic Conditioning, Strength Training, Flexibility & Balance

Jamie Miner, PT, DPT, GCS, is a Geriatric Certified Specialist through the American Physical Therapy Association and a highly sought out clinical instructor, who has helped countless patients overcome the barriers preventing them from exercising, restore strength and mobility they thought was lost forever, remain independent, and reduce pain and symptoms of health-related conditions associated with aging.

You will learn evidence-based techniques in a way that is accessible and instantly applicable to your work so you can:

  • Skillfully assess older patients for gait, balance, strength, coordination and more
  • Design safe and effective exercise programs for older adults
  • Optimize your patients’ range of motion
  • Restore their functional mobility and balance
  • Help clients manage pain with adaptable exercises 
  • Effectively work with special populations including cancer and cardiovascular patients

Better still, this training will provide you with the confidence you need to immediately use these interventions with your patients!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Assess normal age-related changes and will develop treatment plans to minimize those effects to accommodate for the normal age-related changes.
  2. Analyze when weakness, deconditioning, poor posture, faulty movement habits, and poor core stability affect function and formulate the best treatment strategies to address these problems.
  3. Apply evidence-based treatment plans to strength training principles to enhance patient outcomes across various diagnosis and injuries.
  4. Analyze the proper balance between core muscles in the maintenance of spinal health and specific treatment approaches to address spinal changes with aging.
  5. Skillfully assess older patients for gait, balance, strength, coordination, flexibility with specific outcome measures using the recently established guidelines and recommendation.
  6. Integrate the risks and precautions for osteoporosis treatment exercises, treatment and prevention of frailty fractures and the dietary requirement to promote bone healing.
  7. Integrate motivation and engagement into treatment plans to enhance patient compliance.

Outline

How Changes in The Aging Patient Population Impact Your Work

  • Musculoskeletal and postural changes
  • Osteoporosis and osteoarthritis
  • Cardiovascular changes
  • Vision and hearing changes
  • Joint replacement
  • Aging and disease processes
  • The impact of medications and the contraindications as indicated in the BEERs criteria as published by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS)
Geriatric Functional Testing and Assessment Toolbox for:
  • Pain
  • Gait 
  • Posture
  • Mobility 
  • Strength 
  • Balance
  • Range of motion
  • Aerobic capacity
  • Sensory-motor assessment
  • Cognition
  • Motivation
Fall Prevention Essentials
  • Quick tips to fallers
  • Reduce fall risk, minimize fall impact and injury
  • Fall recovery
  • Reduce environmental fall risks
  • Strategies for home safety   
  • Impact comorbidities have on an individual’s fall risk, including arthritis, stroke, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis
  • Care after a fall and conduct a root cause analysis when a fall occurs to identify patient, environmental and systemic conditions that may have led to a fall
  • Safe transfer techniques, wheelchair safety and evaluation of assistance devices
Physical Exercise Programs and Implementation:
  • Safe and Effective Exercise for Aging Adults
  • Precautions to exercise in the elderly
  • Intensity and frequency considerations
  • Exercises and accommodations for:
    • Pain management
    • Building strength and endurance
    • Improving balance
    • Increasing mobility
    • Aerobic conditioning 
  • Recognize red flags and contraindication to exercise
  • Tips to optimize motivation and compliance
Working with Special Populations
  • Frailty
  • Obese
  • Cardiovascular patients
  • Limited mobility (chair bound)
  • Diabetics
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Parkinson’s dis
  • CVA
  • MS
Nutritional Screening and Requirements
  • Specific needs for those with Parkinson’s disease, osteoporosis. diabetes
Optimize Documentation for Better Outcomes and Reimbursement 
  • Use of skilled terminology, avoidance of red flags, and adequate, concise documentation.

Target Audience

  • Physical Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Chiropractors
  • Athletic Trainers
  • Nursing Home Administrators
  • Personal Trainers
  • Exercise Physiologists

Copyright : 09/15/2020

Guiding Patients to Optimal Wellness: Health Conditions and Diagnoses Common in the Elderly

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Maximizing Function in Older Adults: Working with Specific Injuries and Health Issues

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Fall Prevention Essentials: Managing Fall Risk and Balance Issues in Older Patients

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