Course Description
Course Description:
Recently, blood flow restriction (BFR) training has been discussed more and more in the fitness, sports, and rehabilitation worlds. Growing evidence has continued to show its potential to improve exercise and rehabilitation programs. By restricting blood flow during exercise, the research supports significant ability to make gains in strength, muscle size, endurance and even injury recovery - often within abbreviated timetables.
But what exactly is BFR? How does it work? Is it safe? Is it effective? What are the best ways to utilize BFR? Is it something that you should consider?
This course will introduce you strategies to safely, effectively & immediately introduce BFR into your practice:
- Learn how to practice safely
- Understand the most common uses & applications
- Discover exactly how BFR works
- Avoid the pitfalls and recognize the biggest barriers to succeed
 Contact Hours: 2 |  |
 Target Audience: |
Instructional Level: Intermediate |
BOC Level of Difficulty: Advanced |
Accreditation Information:
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Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Discuss the history and evolution of BFR
- Understand the "proof of concept"
- Introduction to how BFR works
- Review the body's response to exercise
- Provide insight on local effects of BFR
- Provide insight on systemic effects of BFR
- Discuss biological pathways of mechanisms of BFR
- Provide basics of types of tissues in a limb
- Homeostasis interruption review
- Motor unit recruitment review by exercise type
- Introduce national survey results on safety
- Provide common side effect
- Describe elements that make BFR safe
- Review Virchow's Triad for DVT risk
- Provide precautions & contraindications
- Review BFR's effects on hemodynamics
- Review BFR's effects on Blood Pressure
- Discuss BFR's impact on muscle damage
Hour 2
- Introduce BFR efficacy in regard to strength
- Introduce BFR efficacy in regards Hypertrophy via cross-sectional area (CSA)
- Introduce BFR efficacy in regard to function
- Introduce BFR efficacy in regard to pain
- Introduce BFR efficacy in regard to various ages and abilities
- Review strength & conditioning principles in regards to foundations of strength, hypertrophy, power, endurance
- Review ATP and PC energy replacement and recovery time
- Introduce BFR applications into traditional strength & conditioning parameters
- Learn the "best practices" via research
- Review BFR highlights
- Introduce future additional study needs
- Reminder of what all BFR has been shown to effective in addressing
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional on how to utilize BFR safely in the population served and to do so effectively using the available research.
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize the mechanics of how BFR works
- Recognize the body’s response to exercise
- Identify Training for managers on creating a respectful culture and dealing with reported issues
- Identify local effects
- Identify systemic effects
- Identify the mechanisms involved in homeostasis interruption
- Identify motor unit recruitment by exercise type
- Identify common findings of BFR safety from survey results
- Identify elements that make BFR safe
- Identify LOP implications with BFR
Disclosures:
WEBINAR
A webinar is LIVE INTERACTIVE audio and video course delivered over the Internet to your computer. With a HomeCEU webinar, you are able to see, hear and interactive with the course presenter. In many courses, demonstrative video will be used to further enhance your learning experience. All content used in the presentation will also be made available to you for your personal use (PowerPoint Slides, Reference Materials etc.).
Contact Hours: 2 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Criteria for Completion: The successful completion of a post course examination is required to receive credit for your webinar participation. A score of 70% or higher is required. You will have additional attempts to pass the examination should it be needed.
PLEASE NOTE: All webinar exams MUST be successfully completed by midnight Central Standard Time on the day of the webinar broadcast.
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Joel Novak is the owner My Performance Rehab and receives a salary. He receives payment from Colibri Healthcare, LLC for the presentation of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service
Authors:
Joel Novak, PT, DPT, CSCS
Joel holds a doctorate in physical therapy and is certified in strength and conditioning through the National Strength & Conditioning Association. He has advanced education in the diagnosis and treatment of movement and muscle imbalances with the Functional Movement Systems, overhead athletes and sports medicine. Additionally, he is a certified instructor in Blood Flow Restriction training.
Joel enjoys working with an active population of all ages. He also works closely with graduate students as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Indianapolis for the Krannert School of Physical Therapy. He has presented numerous times on content including throwing athletes, return to sports, blood flow restriction, functional movement assessments and minimizing injury risk. Empowering and enabling patients to achieve their goals, while providing instruction and meaningful treatments is his primary focus.
Joel is the owner and content editor of My Performance Rehab and a full-time physical therapist in the greater Indianapolis area. For more information, contact Joel@MyPerformanceRehab.com.
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