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EVIDENCE-BASED ADVANCES IN LOWER EXTREMITY REHABILITATION

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Evidence-based practice continues to push physical therapy forward in lower extremity (LE) evaluation and treatment. LE conditions are among the most prevalent in orthopedic physical therapy. The prevalence rates of common conditions include anterior knee pain 25%, patellar tendinopathy ranges from 5.8% - 22.8%, and achilles tendinopathy ranges from 7-9% in runners. As the population ages, osteoarthritis (OA) becomes even more important with 40% of people over age 65 having symptoms related to OA. Advancements related to conditions like tendinopathy, arthritis, femoral acetabular impingement, plantar fasciosis, patellofemoral pain, and bursitis dictate that today's rehab clinicians stay abreast of the latest research in order to optimize outcomes with their patients.

This hands-on course aims to advance a clinician's understanding of the guidelines related to the hip, knee, and foot/ankle to facilitate differential diagnosis/medical screening for a hierarchical approach to intervention prescription producing more efficient and valuable care. Hands-on instruction and interactive presentation will allow attendees to analyze and implement LE evaluation and intervention strategies that can be utilized immediately in the clinic.

Highlights

  • Develop advanced examination strategies for differential diagnosis for the most common lower extremity conditions

  • Improve your ability to properly load and progress lower extremity exercise programs

  • Immediately improve clinical reasoning and examination of lower extremity conditions

  • Classify interventions that can potentially be reduced or eliminated from practice

  • Interactive, hands-on labs for LE functional tests and measures, manual treatment, and prescription of progressive loading



Getting it Right: Therapy Prescription and Dosage

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Therapists are aware that appropriately prescribed exercise programs can have many meaningful benefits to our patients. Unfortunately, many studies show that therapists are often not providing strenuous enough programs to elicit a physiological response that would be sufficient to provide functional change. Considering this, the American Physical Therapy Association identified under dosage as one of the five top problems that needed to change in the Choosing Wisely initiative. Rehab clinicians must maximize dosage each session in a reimbursement environment that demands results in fewer sessions to improve their patients' quality of life. This course will describe practical clinical tools for understanding and maximizing dosage with therapy patients in all settings. Practical assessment and reassessment strategies for loading that you and your patients can implement easily will be explored.

Highlights

  • Immediately improve your ability to properly load and progress exercise programs using objective measures and patient response to dictate treatment to promote restored function, strength, and independence in daily activities.

  • Maximize clinical and functional outcomes by implementing new strategies to maximize dosage in a reimbursement environment that demands you get results in fewer sessions

  • Practical assessment and re-assessment strategies for loading that you and your patients can implement easily to maximize functional gains.

  • Integrate learning with engaging case experiences to maximize learning for functional outcomes with patients.



Evidence-Based Practice: A Clinician's guide to elevating practice with Evidence

Evidence-based practice (EBP) has become pervasive in medicine over the last 15-20 years. You see it stamped on almost every CEU flyer that comes across your desk or email. But what does evidence-based practice even mean? Why is it so important? How do you know that a course you attended really used any good evidence? Most importantly, how does a front-line clinician apply EBP? These questions are just a few that every rehab professional should be able to answer. 


This course will define evidence by explaining what it is and what it is not. The course will discuss how to best locate evidence for the busy clinician. Most importantly, the course will explain how to implement evidence in daily practice with practical examples that you can begin using today in your documentation, outcomes, and medical screening for differential diagnosis.. 

Objectives:

  1. Describe a brief history of EBP

  2. Define EBP

  3. Discuss search strategies for locating EBP including search questions and creating a virtual feed to make EBP information come directly to you

  4. Understand Clinical Practice Guidelines and review articles are quick references for the busy clinician

  5. Describe basic statics used to evaluate evidence

  6. Assess the quality of evidence in several forms

  7. Describe Outcomes tools and brief relationship to G-codes

  8. Apply Outcomes tools to your documentation to objectify your value to 3rd party payers

  9. Review new best practices for DVT screening and why you should discard old screening tools

  10. Apply two clinical prediction rules to at least 3 clinical cases

 

LBP: Are you using best practice?

About 50% of patients who present to outpatient therapy come with complaints of low
back pain. Low back pain has a lifetime prevalence of up to 80%. Physical therapists are not utilizing best practice for their patients. Using best practice to guide treatment has been linked to better outcomes, more efficient care, and better quality of life. 

This course synthesizes current PT LBP evidence. Attendees will benefit from a thorough update and review of the current LBP clinical practice guidelines (CPG) and other important literature. The course will allow attendees to improve examination, PT diagnosis, and LBP sub­grouping. Therapists will be able to select the best treatment for a given patient to improve outcomes. Attendees will also be able to analyze LBP patients for appropriate referral to other medical practitioners.

Objectives:

  1. Review JOSPT CPG on LBP.

  2. Discuss current best evidence guiding examination & intervention for LBP.

  3. Understand the best tools for measuring outcomes of the LBP population.

  4. Understand LBP PT diagnosis and how to apply specific interventions to LBP subgroups.

  5. Understand what specific examination findings are most useful for determining when to refer a patient to another medical practitioner.

  6. Apply best practice knowledge to at least 3 case studies.

 

 











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