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Balance
Challenges:
Progressive Dynamic Treatment Strategies
Course
Description, Course
Objectives, Course Agenda
About the
Speaker, Continuing
Education Approvals,
Upcoming
Schedule
Registration Methods
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This one day
intermediate level course is specifically designed to improve the
clinician’s ability to identify specific impairments leading to
balance dysfunction and then provide challenging interventions.
Balance disorders affect clients in the orthopedic, neurologic, and
geriatric populations, and involve all types of settings. A variety
of treatment interventions for all of these diagnoses and settings
will be discussed with various options for challenging each
activity. This course will emphasize a variety of interventions to
provide all therapists with new perspectives and innovative and
challenging interventions and multiple interventions.
The majority of the
course will focus on interventions, using evidence-based practice as
a foundation, as well as promote discussion about the best outcome
measures to use for individual settings. These valid and reliable
outcome measures will also provide an avenue for improved
reimbursement through functional and measurable goal writing and
balance description.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, participants
will be able to:
1)
Recognize the role of the disablement model in developing
interventions.
2)
Identify key environmental dimensions for challenging interventions
3)
Identify valid and reliable evaluation tools and instruments used in
each individual setting to establish baseline function and document
functional improvement.
4)
Identify various elements that contribute to balance deficits.
5)
Identify treatment strategies and techniques for patients focused on
the elements of their balance deficits.
6)
Apply intervention options for patients at all different functional
levels based on evidence-based practice.
7)
Develop an individualized training program for patients with a
variety of diagnoses.
Who should attend:
This
seminar is rated a basic to intermediate level of instruction
COURSE
AGENDA
| 7:30-8:00 |
Check In
(Continental Breakfast) |
| 8:00 |
Balance defined,
Disablement Model, Environmental dimensions |
| 8:45 |
Outcome Measures |
| 10:00 |
Break |
| 10:15 |
Balance Assessment
with Treatment Strategies at the Impairment Level |
| 11:30 |
Lunch on your own |
| 12:30 |
Balance Assessment
with Treatment Strategies at the Impairment Level |
| 2:00 |
Break |
| 2:15 |
Treatment Strategies
based on Functional Limitations |
| 3:15 |
Documentation |
| 3:45 |
Questions |
| 4:00 |
Adjourn |
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
J.J. Mowder
PT,
PhD, NCS, received
her Bachelors of Science in Psychology from the University of
Colorado-Boulder, and her Masters of Science in Physical Therapy
from the University of Miami. She has over 9 years of experience
from Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York specializing in
the neurological population. J.J.'s professional experience also
includes working in nursing homes, long-term care/skilled nursing
facilities, treating home care patients, and performing private
consultations. J.J. is a Board Certified Neurology Specialist,
Neuro-Developmental Treatment Trained, and is a Certified
Wound Specialist. She is an adjunct faculty member at Nazareth
Physical Therapy School at Nazareth College in Rochester, New
York. She conducts nationwide seminars for Cross Country University
speaking on the Treatment of Neurological Patients. She is
completing her PhD at NOVA Southeastern University.
Continuing Educational Approvals
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