Course Description
Course Description:
Are you ready to handle the booming influx of older adults seeking expert care to keep them moving? In this two-part seminar, clinicians will explore traditional and emerging assessments and interventions to maximize function in elders with mobility impairments, from the frail SNF resident to the competitive athlete. Maximize function for improved quality of life in elders. Clinicians master solutions to aging challenges, including pain, diminished strength and flexibility, degenerative changes, balance issues, falls, cognitive decline and pathologies. Aging clients today are more active early on and tend to live longer, with greater chance of developing painful, degenerative and pathological changes that impact function and quality of life. Part 2 presents a review of evidence-based interventions, including traditional and emerging integrative approaches to geriatric rehab to address balance and falls, cognitive decline, functional limitations, mobility problems and pain issues commonly encountered in older adults.
Accreditation Information:
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Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Manage Pain Stiffness/Weakness
- Discussion of manual therapy approaches for pain and mobility management
Hour 2
- Myofascial techniques:
- Crosshand Release MFR Shoulder
- Release for Lats to Increase Elevation
- Cervical Traps Levator Release
- Pectoral Chest Release for Upright Posture
- Calf Release for Dorsiflexion for ROM and Balance
- Hamstring Gastroc Release
- MFR Technique contraindications and precautions
- Positional Release Upper Trap
- 4Evidence-Based Outcomes
- Fall Prevention Recommendations
- Positional Release Hip Flexor
Hour 3
- Research review on benefits of holistic options for improving functional impairments in elders
- Massage for Elders
- Mindfulness
- Relaxation
- Hypnosis
- Craniosacral Therapy,
- Therapeutic Touch/Reiki
- Task Specific Training
Hour 4
- Program design for evidence-based: exercise training, functional activities, multifactorial interventions and balance training to promote function, mobility, cognition, balance & prevent falls
- Discussion of American Geriatric Society recommendations
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
Clinicians will design therapy programs to improve elder balance, mobility, function and cognition and relieve pain based on current research and practice guidelines.
Professional Objectives:
- Identify the evidence for integrative interventions to improve mobility and balance, to reduce pain, and improve functional quality of life in elders.
- List the use of integrative approaches to elder rehabilitation with examples of: manual therapy, fascial release, joint mobilization, therapeutic exercise, balance and neuromuscular re-education, functional training, and evidence-based alternative medicine approaches.
- List 3 manual therapy approaches used to manage pain and stiffness in elders
- List 3 contraindications for manual therapy in elderly patients
- List 3 holistic options to manage pain in elders.
- List 3 functional impairments in elders which have been shown to improve based on current evidence.
- List 3 functional impairments in elders which have been shown to improve based on current evidence.
- List 3 interventions demonstrated to improve dementia behaviors in elders.
- Identify 3 evidence-based intervention which promotes functional balance and prevent falls.
- Cite 5 fall prevention recommendations by the American Geriatric Society
Disclosures:
SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND
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Contact Hours: 4 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
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Theresa Schmidt is employed by Educise and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU 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
Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.