Quarter 4 Course and Exercise Updates

New Clinical Courses

Fall Prevention: Watch this series on best practices for screening and assessing balance and fall risk among older adults.

• Preventing Falls by Identifying Risk
• Preventing Falls by Reducing Risk

Leadership Skills for Physical Therapists: Listen to this audio series for strategies on how to set goals for the next steps in your career. This series is appropriate for physical therapists pursuing board speciality in geriatrics. 

• Geriatric Physical Therapy Professionalism: Your Journey
• Geriatric Physical Therapy Professionalism: Guiding Principles

Neurology: Learn about the unique and complex challenges of neurodegenerative diseases and how to overcome barriers as a physical therapist to support your patients.  

• Huntington’s Disease: Guideline-Based Decisions 
• Framework for Management of Clients With Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Advanced Physical Therapy Management of Clients With Parkinson’s Disease
• Parkinsonism and Related Disorders: Diagnosis and Medical Management

Dementia and Memory Care: Watch this series on the different types of dementia and the current evidence-based assessments and interventions for patients.

• Dementia Types: Assessment for Healthcare Professionals
• Dementia: Relationship of Cognition, Exercise, Function, and Mobility

Orthopedics: Brush up on your knowledge of several classification systems and guidelines in this advanced course for physical therapists.

• Understanding and Utilizing ICF Guidelines, CPGs, and Lumbar TBC

Pediatric Occupational Therapy: Learn how to identify a trauma-informed approach and specific techniques to provide a practical intervention strategy for children with a history of trauma.

• Trauma-Informed Care in Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Documentation and Coding for Skilled Nursing Facilities: Gain a deeper understanding of the fundamental concepts of the patient-driven payment model (PDPM). This course is beneficial to new clinicians as an introduction and as a refresher for all clinicians.

• The Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM): Everything You Need To Know (Coming Soon)

Webinars: Missed a live webinar? Make sure to watch the recorded version to catch up on latest evidence and hear instructors’ responses to questions asked during the Q&A session.

• Orthosis Design, Fabrication, and Use With the Medically Complex Infant (Recorded Webinar)
• Creative Approaches to Delivering Skilled, Person-Centered Rehabilitation (Recorded Webinar)
• Interdisciplinary Insights for Treatment of Limb Loss and Diabetes (Recorded Webinar)
• Interdisciplinary Insights for Acute Care Progression of Lower Limb Loss (Recorded Webinar)
• Need more live CE? Register for upcoming live webinars here: Upcoming Webinars

New Patient Education and Home Exercise Programs

• Pre-Operative Education: This series of 6 patient education videos is designed to provide education on a selection of common surgeries including total hip replacement, total shoulder replacement, lumbar fusion, laminectomy, and microdiscectomy in an approachable and inclusive way.
• Post-Operative Care: This collection of patient education and home exercise program videos is for patients recovering from common surgeries such as total hip, knee, and shoulder replacement. These 60+ videos and handouts cover topics such as functional mobility training, post-operative precautions, self-care strategies, scar management, and more.
• This content launches on November 8th. Find the latest exercises and education by heading to the HEP builder and sorting by most recent.

Improvements

Here’s a breakdown of course content improvements made over the past month.

• Clinical Course Updates: 27 courses updated to include new bibliographies with sources that reflect current application of practice and up-to-date research and reports.