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Amputee Rehabilitation Across the Continuum of Care Using Evidence Based Practice
Education Resources, Inc.
Format(s): Live Seminars
Discipline(s): Physical Therapy / Occupational Therapy
Contact Hours: 14.5
Registration Fee: $435.00
Objectives
Participants will be able to apply course learning
immediately to:
• Evaluate the limb loss population and risk factors
they face
• Discuss surgical techniques and common complications
• Describe current prosthetic components and functional
activities
• Evaluate function in multi-limb loss patients
• Develop Introductory running and sports protocols
to patients with lower limb loss
Target Audience
This course is designed for: Physical Therapists, Physical
Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational
Therapist Assistants who are working with
patients who have limb loss.
Confirmation Notes
This course meets the criteria for 14.5 contact hours
(1.45 CEU's). Application has been made to the MN
Board of Physical Therapy. In GA the Board of Physical
Therapy recognize other state's approvals. Documentation
is provided in accordance with the GA Board of OT
for license renewal.
Approv ed prov ider of c ontinu
ing e d u c a t i o n b y t h e A m e r i
can Occupational Therapy Association
#3043 for 14.5 contact hours (1.45 CEU's) - Intermediate
level. Occupational Therapy Process: assessment,
Intervention.The assignment of AOTA CEU's does
not imply endorsement of specific course content,
products or clinical procedures by AOTA.
NBCOT professional development provider - 14.5 PDUs
Agenda
DAY ONE:
7:30-8:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:00 Review of population, costs and patient
histories
9:00-10:00 Diabetes, cancer, and trauma risk factors,
Medicare K levels, expected outcomes
and surgical considerations.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-10:45 Psychological and considerations;
resources for support
10:45-11:15 Pre-operative intervention and evaluation
11:15-12:00 Video of surgery/myodesis/myoplasty/
nerve management and limb lengthening
12:00-1:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:00-3:30 Acute post-op management, evaluation,
sound limb care, ADLs, Assistive devices,
limb compression, mirror therapy,
Ertl specific exercises, OT perspective
UE amputation
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:00 Quad ADLs and ADLs for UE amputees
5:00-5:30 Mat exercise, Core exercises
Patient perspective and questions
DAY TWO:
7:30-8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:30 OT and PT integrating care
8:30-9:30 Upper limb considerations and
prosthetics
9:30-10:00 Prosthetic introduction (componentry and
learning to use prosthetics)
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:00 Prosthetic training: differences between
microprocessor knees
11:00-12:00 Gait training and functional training for PT
and OT
12:00-1:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:00-2:00 Video analysis with treatment
suggestions
2:00-3:00 Introducing running and return to sport
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-3:45 Outcome measures
3:45-4:30 Complications: skin break down,
neuroma, bone spur bursea
Future advances with equipment and
surgery for upper and lower extremity
Description
The goal of this course is to enable you to tailor each patient's treatment for the most effective outcomes in light of the multiple problems that patients with limb loss face. This course offers a multidisciplinary team perspective and highlights issues and therapy implications from amputation surgery through prosthetic prescription. It will address complications and common risk factors that an amputee case load can present.
This exciting course will address multiple levels of limb loss due to diabetic, dysvascular, trauma, cancer and sepsis causes. Detailed analysis of complex cases will help clinicians hone their clinical decision making skills. New technology, surgical options and future directions to address current problems are included.
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