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J.J. Mowder-Tinney PT, MS, NCS, CWS is a nationwide lecturer for Cross Country University. She performs a one day lecture on Treatment of Individuals with Neurological Dysfunction: From Assessment to Goal Formation for Physical and Occupational Therapists.  This comprehensive seminar will teach you the importance of every aspect of a neurological evaluation.  You will assess sensory, cognitive, motor and perceptual impairments that result in functional limitations and be given treatment ideas in each area.  You will practice normal movement analysis and improve your assessment ability to determine your treatment prioritization.  A variety of treatment techniques will be discussed.  You will also be given examples of functional goals for a variety of settings as well as actively discuss some of the latest research being performed in the neurological realm.

What You Will Learn at that course:


- Understand the disablement model
- The importance of a thorough neurological evaluation
- What role to play in evidence-based practice
- How to develop treatment plans from your patients' impairments
- How to write functional and measurable goals to assist in reimbursement in
the outpatient setting
- Understand different treatment options and when to choose each one

 

Course Content

 

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING
-Definition
-History
-Decision making models
-Ways to enhance decision making
-Finding your own style for decision making
-Disablement model
-Impairment
-Activity limitations
-Participation restrictions
-Evidence -based practice

NEUROLOGICAL EVALUATION
-Level of consciousness
-Cognitive function
-Communication limitations
-Shoulder pain and treatment
-Perceptual dysfunction

-Unilateral inattention

-Pusher syndrome
-Sensory dysfunction
-Postural control
-Balance
-Vestibular
-Visual
-Somatosensory
-Motor function
-Tone
-Clinical hypertonicity
- Movement patterns
- Functional status

BREAKING DOWN THE IMPAIRMENTS
- Types of impairments
- How to prioritize impairments
-Specific impairments and how they directly restrict functional activities
- How impairments direct treatment
-- What strategies to use during your treatment
- Re-evaluation

GOAL FORMATION FOR INCREASED REIMBURSEMENT
- What reviewers look for in documentation
- Common red flags for payers
- Key points for Medicare reimbursement
- How to write a measurable goal
- How to include functional outcomes
- Patient-centered goals
-- Achieve maximum patient participation
- Home programs
- Examples of goals for case studies in multiple clinical settings

TREATMENT APPROACHES
- Task-specific functional training
- Neuro-developmental treatment
- Movement reeducation stages
- Balance training
-- VOR exercises
- Postural stabilization positions
- Body weight-support treadmill training
-- the latest research and its indications
-Indications for proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
- Constraint induced movement therapy
- Cast Study #1 - Parkinson's
- Cast Study #2 -  CVA

 

CONCLUSION

 

 

  To attend this course contact Cross Country University at http://www.crosscountry

university.com/

 

 

 

  Cross Country University.

Phone: 1-800-397-0180

Fax: 1-615-331-4415

 

PO Box 305006

Nashville, TN 37230-5006

 

 

 


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