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Treating Balance and Preventing Falls, in Geriatric, Neuro, Vestibular and Medically Complex Clients

Education Resources, Inc.

Objectives

1. Discuss balance processing and strategies of recovery.
2. Analyze new treatment techniques and how to create new exercises to isolate and challenge all sensory systems, all 4 balance reactions as well as reaction time.
3. Identify and reduce fall risk.
4. Design safe falling techniques to minimize the risk of an injury

Target Audience

This course is relevant for Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapist Assistants and any provider assessing and/or treating balance impairment or patients with fall risks in all practice settings.

Confirmation Notes

This course meets the criteria for 14 contact hours (1.4 CEU's). Application has been made to the PA State Board of Physical Therapy, and the NJ Board of Physical Therapy Examiners. In MA this workshop meets accepted standards for continued competence activities. The GA Board of PT recognizes other State's approvals.
Approved provider by the NY State Board of Physical Therapy for 16.8 contact hours.
Application has been made to the FL Physical Therapy Association for 16.5 contact hours.
Approved provider by the FL Board of Occupational Therapy Approved provider of continuing education by the American Occupational Therapy Association #3043, for 14 contact hours - 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 -14PDUs

Agenda

DAY ONE:
7:30-8:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast 8:00-8:30 Understanding processing systems: visual, proprioceptive and vestibular inputs 8:30-9:00 Understanding recovery strategies: ankle, hip, stepping, lowering COG 9:00-9:30 Identify interactions and external variables impacting processing and recovery strategies and learn how to address these issues to maximize outcome 9:30-10:00 Identifying fall risk in routine and complex patient populations 10:00-10:15 Break 10:15-10:45 Screening tools and balance testing to accurately and effectively identify fall risk and potential underlying conditions 10:45-12:00 How to choose the appropriate screening tool(s) for specific patient populations 12:00-1:00 LUNCH 1:00-3:00 Balance Testing (Lab) 3:00-3:15 Break 3:15-4:00 Making sense of balance testing results and how to design a tailored program based on results 4:00-5:00 Seated balance exercises (Lab)
DAY TWO: 7:30-8:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast 8:00-8:30 Understanding the basics screening for vestibular impairment 8:30-10:00 Vestibular screening (Lab): VOMS, positional testing, oculomotor testing, DVA, mHIT 10:00-10:15 Break 10:15-12:00 Balance exercise lab for mild, moderate and severe deficiencies to address perceptual, processing and/or response abnormalities. Learn how to think “outside the box” to address specific impairments while making rehab fun for you and your patients. 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-1:30 Understand key components to a successful outcome: dosing, frequency, level of challenge, manipulating complexities of challenge, targeting the deficiency (task specific training), dual tasking, strategies to maximize motor learning, sensory integration and how to transition balance to ‘run on autopilot’ 1:30-2:00 Treatment variations for specialized settings (home health & SNF) (Lab) 2:00-2:30 Practicing exercise progressions (Lab) 2:30-2:45 Break 2:45-3:15 Teaching safe falling techniques to your patients (and how to practice as part of HEP) to minimize risk of injury in the event of a fall (lecture and lab) 3:15-3:30 Home modifications to reduce fall risk (key areas to look for in the home or questions to ask patients if you are not in the home). Cheap treatment equipment options 3:30-4:00 Case Study w/ exercise performance, including progressions (collective group lab

Description

This course is highly informative and will get you thinking about balance in a whole new light to make balance training effective and fun for you and your patients! You will learn how to isolate balance deficits in processing and motor output, screen for basic vestibular involvement, including BPPV, objectively identify fall risk, implement modifications to reduce fall risk, discover your creative side to developing effective treatment strategies, tailor exercises to meet the needs of your patients physical abilities in any setting and understand how to teach safe falling techniques, to name a few. You will also learn about frequently missed components to a successful treatment program.

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