STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

Edema Bootcamp - Live Webinar
2020-06-17 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Edemas are present throughout all areas of rehabilitationpractice. Often, as therapy practitioners, we are the first to identify new onset edemas and we are charged with determining if our client’s edema is a medical emergency. Additional responsibility then lies with providing safe and effective treatment techniques utilizing evidence-basedoutcome measures for effective and reimbursable documentation.
This course will assist practitioners to determine the medical status of edemas, the various types of edemas that can be seen throughout practice settings, and effectivetreatment techniques for edema resolution or management. Participants will also take away several outcome measures that they can immediately start using with their clients to assist with determining progress and documenting client outcomes.

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors - Live Webinar
2020-06-16 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood, and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges. Attend this live webcast and learn new, effective non-medication strategies for your clients’ most challenging behaviors including:

Tantrums
Running out/away
Noncompliance
Nagging
Refusing to work/help
Yelling/screaming
Bullying
Panic/anxiety reactions
Lack of follow-through
Not following directions

You will walk away with immediate strategies for out of control behaviors and techniques for emotional regulation along with long-term treatment strategies to help kids at home and school. Jason Mathison is a clinical expert and has worked with the most challenging kids both in clinical and school settings. Through the use of case studies and action-oriented handouts, you will finish this live webcast with solutions to turn your most challenging kids around.

Discover how play therapy will inspire and transform your work with children, teens, and families. Online today special!
2020-06-15 15:00 - 22:00 (America/Phoenix)
When young kids and teenagers come in for therapy, it often takes a creative and playful approach to engage them in the process and help them overcome their challenges.
If you’re looking for the best resources and creative interventions available…
This exclusive online training is it! This is your chance to join expert play therapy trainers and discover their favorite play therapy techniques that will help kids from early childhood to teenagers…

develop empathetic connections
process their emotions
learn self-control
build resilience
strengthen attachments
and increase social skills

…all while discovering themselves in a non-directive safe way.
Plus, you’ll gain valuable insights into how and why the techniques work…
Helping you make the best clinical decisions possible on which interventions to use and when they’ll be the most successful.
You’ll leave this course with a new toolbox loaded with creative and effective play-based interventions while earning up to 18.75 CE hours, all counting towards becoming a Registered Play Therapist (RPT) through the Association for Play Therapy.
Bonus! You’ll also get a digital copy of our new Play Therapy book for FREE – valued at $29.99.
This book includes the most effective play therapy activities for working with children with depression, anxiety, trauma, behavior issues, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Treatment Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders and Pain - Live Webinar
2020-06-15 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
The anxiety spectrum exemplifies the disorders where emotions override thought. Fragmented memories get stored in the body. The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) collapse this uncomfortable emotional and physical reactivity, freeing a path for spontaneous insights and clearer thinking.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a comprehensive mind-body treatment that desensitizes three areas: unwanted thoughts, emotions, and physical reactions. EFT combines physical interventions derived from restorative (self-applied) acupressure theory with cognitive interventions.
EFT is an evidence-based practice with over 100 published studies. One published study demonstrated a 24% decrease in cortisol (stress hormone) level in the EFT group (Energypsych.org). EFT is an effective brief therapy and belongs in every therapist’s tool box.
Transform your clinical excellence. Bring EFT into your practice and treat resistant problems that other methods failed.
This live webcast focuses on cutting-edge techniques of EFT to treat the anxiety spectrum disorders, including:

Phobias
Generalized Anxiety
Social Anxiety Disorder
Panic
OCD
Acute Traumatic Stress Reactions

These mind-body methods are emerging into mainstream mental health, trauma treatment, coaching, employee assistance programs, and sport psychology arenas as a rapid, effective, non-invasive, calming, desensitizing tool. Do not miss this opportunity to learn evidence-based techniques you can use immediately with your clients and improve treatment outcomes.

Nutrition Management for the Diabetic Patient - Live Webinar
2020-06-12 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Phoenix)
Many diabetic patients do not fully understand the role nutrition plays in their overall management of the disease. You do not need to be a nutritionist to offer sound nutritional advice to your diabetic patients. In this course you will learn the importance of diabetic nutritional management for both type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients. We will analyze diabetes at a cellular level and then discuss the nutrition needed for optimal glucose metabolism and function. Focus will be placed on macronutrients and their effects on glucose metabolism along with fiber, an important component in glucose control. We will discuss both prevention and treatment strategies. We will also briefly discuss the role exercise plays in type 2 diabetes management.

Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom: Trauma-Informed Tools to Support Social and Emotional Learning, Student Success and Positive Climate - Live Webinar
2020-06-11 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver)
Do you find yourself wondering what more you can do to help your easily distracted student? The one who has a hard time maintaining focus? What if you had the tools that would enhance focus and attention, ease anxiety, and improve confidence, self-esteem and academic performance? During this live webcast, you will learn simple, developmentally appropriate yoga and mindfulness tools that can be immediately integrated into your daily curriculum. These skills are a proven and effective way to promote self-regulation ability, learning readiness, and resilience while cultivating a positive, peaceful, productive classroom.
Through the framework of – Noticing, Mindful Choice, Practice, Reflection, Integration – you will learn how to empower your students and yourself with increased self-awareness, the foundation for the development of self-regulation skills and cognitive control. Through 67 simple yoga and mindfulness-based activities designed to engage the whole child, you will help your students move from a state of anxiety and dysregulation to a state of engagement, control, and connectedness. All activities are specially chosen for their suitability for the typical classroom space and schedule and can be done standing beside or sitting at desks, while hands and bodies remain off the floor. Yoga 4 Classrooms is easy for teachers, students, and therapists to use, and helps to create a more harmonious, learning-friendly school day.
This inspiriting live webcast will give you the tools to integrate yoga and mindfulness skills into your classroom, leaving everyone feeling empowered, calm, and ready to learn. Absolutely no yoga experience is required!

Anxiety and Disruptive Behaviors in Children: Alternative Explanations, Solutions and Treatment Techniques
2020-06-11 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver)
Children’s behavior sometimes just does not make sense. They may behave great at school and then trash the house when they get home. They may wake at night with terrors even though nothing disruptive seems to be going on during the day. Nice parents with out of control kids are difficult to figure out.
Dr. Bostwick has worked with children and their parents for over 25 years conducting research and providing cognitive behavioral solutions to even the most puzzling behavior. Common childhood milestones can become challenging if a child doesn’t behave as we would expect. Dr. Bostwick will show you how anxiety and unexpected behavior can be a side effect of other problems you may not have considered. Kids with baffling behavior are often resistant to tried and true treatment options for anxiety and behavior disorders.
Join Dr. Bostwick, who has done the hard work for you, for this live webcast! She’ll share developmentally appropriate considerations and techniques on how to proceed with highly sensitive childhood behavior:

Suicidal five-year-old
Child running the household and parents walking on eggshells
3-year-old who has just been kicked out of her second daycare
6-year-old tells you they hear voices or see things that are not there

Dr. Bostwick will help you create real and positive long term change that promotes healthy development from childhood into adolescence and beyond! Don’t miss an opportunity to learn from her.
Sign up today!

Current Concepts of Exercise, Pain Science, & Manual Therapy - Live Webinar
2020-06-10 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
An emerging paradigm shift in healthcare is to focus on wellness and prevention to address modifiable risk factors of disease rather than wait until disease is present to intervene. This course will provide attendees with an overview of prominent orthopedic rehabilitation interventions and their relationship to wellness and patient care. Current evidence will be synthesized to give attendees guidance on effective implementation in clinical practice. A proposed interventionframework and clinical examples will be provided to facilitate practical patient care.

Exercise in Geriatric Rehabilitation - Live Webinar
2020-06-09 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
The latest practice analysis identifies over 53% of rehabilitation patients are over the age of 65 years. Many of these older adults have functional limitations due to the fact that older adults are generally less physically active than theiryounger counterparts or due to difficulties returning to normal function following illness or injury. Exercise is a non- pharmacological intervention that can have beneficial effects on multiple domains of function. However, the application of exercise by health care professionals is often under-dosed leading to minimal changes in this patient population. Olderadults can pose unique challenges for clinicians due to their sedentary lifestyle and potential for complex medical history.
Rehabilitation professionals are experts in movementscience and should play an integral role in prescription of appropriate physical activity to ensure maximal levels of success with older adults, so we need to do better for this new majority of patients. This course will provide you with a better understanding of primary aging processes that may affect an older adult’s functional status. An evidence-basedapproach for exercise prescription will be discussed to ensure that exercise science principles are used during plan of care development.

Low Vision Identification, Assessment, & Treatment to Maximize Functional Skills - Live Webinar
2020-06-04 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
An estimated 285 million people are currently suffering from low-vision and visual impairment impacting their daily tasks world-wide (Zetterlund, Lundqvist, & Richter, 2019). In the United States alone these deficits are costing over 16 billion in healthcare dollars which carries a significant burden for patients (Shah et al, 2018). As rehabilitation professionals we have the unique opportunity to identify ways to maximize a patients’ function and reduce burden of care. This course will aim to better equip therapists in the understanding of low vision diagnoses and how to service this population in orderto maximize function safely.
This course will focus on the ability select appropriate functional evaluations for their discipline in order to modify and establish treatment plans for the low vision patient. Immediate-use resources will be identified for therapists toimplement next-day in clinic for treatment effectiveness. Participants to this course will be able to identify the common low vision diagnoses impacting patient function. Participants will leave understanding the link between balance and visionwill be defined with patient risk factors discussed fortherapists to better identify “at-risk” clientele and grow their practice.

Positioning & Movement During Play - Live Webinar
2020-06-03 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
Play is a natural and essential part of our children’s lives that we want to support with active engagement and provide opportunities for learning. There are a variety of benefits to play, but it is important to understand the different kinds of play and how we can expand upon it in our treatment of children. We need to understand our children, by reading their cues, and engaging in interactions to build their brains through play. We want to provide opportunities to increase the neural connections to improve their quality of movement. Our children are intrinsically motivated during play and explore their environments to help develop and strengthen their motor skills. Efficient movements of the body are impacted by the coordination of neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, and sensory systems. Motor development impacts the ability of children to explore their environments, but also has a crucial role in their cognitive, emotional, and social development.
This course will improve a therapist’s understanding of aclient’s neuromuscular and sensory-motor development tosupport optimal positioning and movement. Therapists will better understand the effectiveness of interventions to helpimprove learning, success with everyday activities, academic achievement, and social interactions in a variety of environments. Strategies discussed will support body awareness, strengthening, and motor planning skills foreffective execution of movements during play with goal-directed activities. Attendees will review the importance for team collaboration to provide motivating, but challenging, movement activities to support the child in a variety of environments.

Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) - Live Webinar
2020-05-28 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
Since stroke is one of the leading conditions seen by therapists and considering stroke is the leading cause of sensorimotor disability, this is the strongest evidence-based approach to helping an individual regain motor functioning and skills. The effectiveness of this approach is well- established yet the formal structured use of this “vehicle” for stroke recovery is seldom used due to the barriers within the traditional rehabilitation model, such as insurance reimbursement. Consequently, this webinar will go over ways to implement this approach with adults and children through the modification of the traditional approach to CIMT. This workshop will give the participant another approach to add to their stroke toolbox so they can immediately implement this within the clinic or as a home program.

Comprehensive Management of Falls in Older Adults - Live Webinar
2020-05-27 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
Falls among older adults remain one the most pressing issues for rehabilitation professionals. More than 95% of hip fractures are caused by falling and falls cost the healthcare system about $31 billion dollars annually. The good news is that falls are not a normal part of aging and that they are preventable. Additionally, many of the risk factors associated with falling can be modified with the help of healthcare professionals. But clinicians have to understand the complexnature of falls and implement the most up to date interventions to effectively manage these patients.
This course will provide attendees a deeper understanding of the interplay between risk factors associated with falls. Additionally, attendees will review and practice the most evidence-based examination and evaluative tools available to be able to develop the best individualized plan of care of their patient and document skilled justification for treatment. Finally, the course content will outline the current best practices and interventions available to healthcare professionals in managing falls and aid in the prevention of future falls.

Maintenance Therapy - Live Webinar
2020-05-22 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Denver)
A landmark decision by a federal judge in January 2013 changed significantly a therapist’s ability to meet the needs of his/her patient – that decision was on the Jimmo v. Sebelius Case, which allowed skilled therapists and nurses to bill for “maintenance” care. Maintenance therapy differs from rehabilitation and most therapists were instructed in school to avoid the term “maintenance.” The purpose of this course is to help all PT/OT staff gain a thorough knowledge of the laws that govern maintenance therapy, and the ramifications to your clinical practice. Furthermore, this course will address key documentation principles that you’ll want to follow to prove medical necessity of maintenance therapy.
After attending this course, you will be ready to know ifyour patient needs maintenance therapy and how to demonstrate that conclusively by reviewing key case studies provided be Medicare.

Mental Health Issues in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Helping Children & Adolescents Succeed - Glendale
2020-05-22 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Join child/adolescent behavior expert, Jay Berk, PhD, and learn how to best manage the students at your school diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), mood disorders, anxiety and depression. You will walk away with concrete, yet practical, strategies to successfully intervene with their serious behavioral issues, such as:

Anger and outbursts
Cutting and self-injury
Defiance
Impulsivity
Sensory issues
Meltdowns and tantrums
Obsessive compulsive
Truancy
Rigidity
Electronic addiction

Through case studies, video clips and dynamic class discussion you will learn:

30 second teacher strategies to manage challenging and disruptive behaviors
New ways to reduce the costs of out-of-district placements
How to engage students in class, increase productivity and reduce truancy
Behavioral assessments and strategies for the IEP team
Side-effects of common psychotropic medications
How skill deficits from mental health conditions create behavioral difficulties
Characteristics of at-risk students’ mental health problems
Strategies to gain collaboration with clinicians

Leave the day with the “magic dust” you have been looking for to expedite rapid and effective changes in these children and adolescents!

A Vision-Based Approach to Torticollis - Live Webinar
2020-05-21 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver)
Torticollis incidents continue to grow annually, however,treatments remain predominantly manual therapy based. Many infants with torticollis present without limitations in their active and/or passive neck motion leaving therapists questioning the best manual therapy approach to use. There are currently no studies on the impact of treating infants with torticollis with a vision-based approach.
This course will demonstrate how to assess infants with torticollis to determine the impact that their vision is playing on their head position. Participants will learn three different vision-based treatment approaches to use with torticollis patients for quick, noticeable improvement in head position within one week of implementation.

Mental Health Issues in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Helping Children & Adolescents Succeed - Chandler
2020-05-21 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix) | Marriott Phoenix Chandler, 1600 S. Price Rd., Chandler, AZ, 85286, United States

Gait Training in Neuro Rehab - Live Webinar
2020-05-20 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
Most individuals with neurologic dysfunction often present with impairments in gait and locomotor function that impede them from being independent with their activities of daily living. This concise 2-hour presentation will review the most important phases of the gait cycle and how to increase efficiency by making a priority problem list during the observational gait analysis. This in turn will help the clinicians with their clinical decision making with using interventionsbased on current evidence.
Clinical practice guidelines will be reviewed and discussed so that clinicians can make informed decisions of their application in clinical practice. Creative treatment ideas will be demonstrated through use of patient videos that can be used immediately in the clinic to help improve locomotor function in your clients.

Mental Health Issues in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Helping Children & Adolescents Succeed - Tucson
2020-05-20 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix) | DoubleTree Tucson Airport, 7051 S. Tucson Blvd., Tucson, AZ, 85756, United States

High-Functioning Autism: Proven & Practical Interventions for Challenging Behaviors in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults - Live Webcast
2020-05-15 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver)
This intensive, full-day seminar provides proven intervention strategies, essential treatment tools, and behavioral techniques to help you analyze behaviors and actions, identify consequences for behaviors, and teach new skills to children, adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism (HFA). Walk away with practical intervention techniques for social success, behavior changes and overcoming challenging co-occurring behaviors that deliver success through adulthood. The challenging co-occurring issues to be addressed are:

Social skills
Sensory
Depression
ADHD
Psychotropic medications
Communication
Anxiety/Rigidity
Meltdowns
OCD
Non-compliance

Get valuable insight into common psychotropic medication, including both the helpful effects and potentially problematic side effects, that these individuals are prescribed. We will explore HFA and the new DSM-5® diagnosis of Social-Pragmatic Communication Disorder. You will receive the necessary tools to gain effective collaboration between clinicians, educators and parents. Through case studies, video clips and class participation you will leave this seminar with the confidence to identify actions that cause impediments in change, utilize more successful consequences for behaviors, and teach new skills to children, adolescents, and young adults with HFA. Don’t just manage these individuals; provide interventions that can lead to successful independence into their adult years!

High-Functioning Autism: Proven & Practical Interventions for Challenging Behaviors in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults - Phoenix
2020-05-15 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix) | Hilton Phoenix Airport, 2435 S. 47th St., Phoenix, AZ, 85034, United States

Neuroplasticity and Neurological Disorders
2020-05-14 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | A facility has yet to be booked for this course but registration is open. You will be notified via email after a facility is selected.
This course provides a commonsense perspective of the immediate and long-lasting effects brain diseases have on the human brain. Presented are new resources, research, and ideas to leverage brain plasticity with the aim to reverse brain damage, and promote recovery. Included will be a discussion of the tools, and techniques therapists have to ameliorate pain, and reduce or halt potential brain damage caused by Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Acquired Brain Injury (incl. TBI and stroke), phantom limb pain, spasticity and headache. These populations, cumulatively, represent over 10 million diagnoses per year- in the U.S. alone.
Participants of this one-day interactive course will haveglobal insight as to the profound plastic nature of the human brain, and plasticity’s effect on both amplifying as well asameliorating these diseases and their sequelae. The brain iscommand and control of every one of the trillions of cells in the human body. Most clinicians have a little training that provides insight into this wondrous organ. The aim of this course is to equip clinicians with tools, strategies, and treatments to work in tandem with the patient’s brain to reduce pain and increase function. At the core of thesetreatment options is the melding of bleeding edge neuroscience with clinical practice.

High-Functioning Autism: Proven & Practical Interventions for Challenging Behaviors in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults - Scottsdale
2020-05-14 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | Courtyard by Marriott, 17010 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale, AZ, 85255, United States

Evidenced-Based Evaluation and Treatment of the Cervical Spine - Live Webinar
2020-05-13 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver)
Neck pain is a common complaint among the general population and studies indicate that the overall incidence of neck pain is increasing worldwide. Clinicians need up to date, evidenced based, assessment and intervention tools to effectively treat this common condition. Evidence shows that a classification framework to identify which patients respond best to certain treatments results in superior outcomes when compared to a non-classification approach. Therapists can learn these newer models of classifying and treatment of the impairments associated with neck pain.
This workshop will outline the various classifications of patients who present with neck pain and identify which interventions are most effective for each stage of the condition. The assessment and reasoning skills gained from this course will allow the clinician to immediately apply evidenced based treatments to their practice setting and improve not only functional outcomes but patient satisfaction.

Neuroplasticity and Neurological Disorders - Tucson
2020-05-13 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | A facility has yet to be booked for this course but registration is open. You will be notified via email after a facility is selected.
This course provides a commonsense perspective of the immediate and long-lasting effects brain diseases have on the human brain. Presented are new resources, research, and ideas to leverage brain plasticity with the aim to reverse brain damage, and promote recovery. Included will be a discussion of the tools, and techniques therapists have to ameliorate pain, and reduce or halt potential brain damage caused by Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Acquired Brain Injury (incl. TBI and stroke), phantom limb pain, spasticity and headache. These populations, cumulatively, represent over 10 million diagnoses per year- in the U.S. alone.
Participants of this one-day interactive course will have global insight as to the profound plastic nature of the human brain, and plasticity’s effect on both amplifying as well as ameliorating these diseases and their sequelae. The brain is command and control of every one of the trillions of cells in the human body. Most clinicians have a little training that provides insight into this wondrous organ. The aim of this course is to equip clinicians with tools, strategies, and treatments to work in tandem with the patient’s brain to reduce pain and increase function. At the core of these treatment options is the melding of bleeding edge neuroscience with clinical practice.

High-Functioning Autism: Proven & Practical Interventions for Challenging Behaviors in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults - Tucson
2020-05-13 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix) | DoubleTree Tucson Airport, 7051 S. Tucson Blvd., Tucson, AZ, 85756, United States

Best Practice in Managing Patients with Dementia - Live Webinar
2020-05-12 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
Older adults with dementia are 9 times as likely to require a stay in a skilled nursing facility as their cognitively intact counterparts. Skilled rehabilitation (including physical therapy,occupational therapy, speech therapy, and nursing) is an integral part of an older adult’s return to the optimal functional level of independence following an injury or illness. Patients with dementia pose unique challenges to rehabilitation professionals. Severe deficits in attention, judgment, memory, communication, and language are common in individuals with dementia. The progressive nature of dementia results inincreased dependence on caregivers as well as cost to the healthcare system with worldwide costs of $604 billion in 2010.
It is commonly thought that patients with dementia cannot benefit from rehabilitation services because of behaviors, lack of communication, or difficulties in learning. However,current literature indicates IWDs can benefit fromrehabilitation as much as adults without dementia. With the proper knowledge and training, rehabilitation clinicians areable to provide dementia-specific, person-centered care, which can maximize rehabilitation outcomes by maintaining oreven improving physical performance and function and thereby reduce healthcare costs. This course will provide you with best practice and evidence-based approaches to overcome these challenges to improve functional outcomes for these patients.

Pediatric Teletherapy - Live Webinar
2020-05-08 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Denver)
Telehealth is a viable option for therapeutic intervention. In this presentation participants will learn what pediatric telehealth entails including standards of practicerecommended by AOTA and APTA associations. Teletherapy evidence will be discussed in relation to efficacy for implementation. Participants will learn the `How To’s’ of teleintervention from start to finish, including what technology and equipment is needed. This presentation will focus on practical application of therapy services and brain storm challenges that may occur, including how to deal with difficult behaviors when you are not there in person, and how to be creative with treatment activities when you don’t have a “therapy bag”. Join us in this 2-hour presentation and learneffective approaches for teletherapy and go away with practical resources you can implement immediately.

Strength Training in Geriatric Rehabilitation - Live Webinar
2020-05-07 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver)
Sarcopenia (muscular atrophy related to aging and sedentary lifestyle) is one of the most common geriatric syndromes compromising the function of up to 40% of the aging population. Sarcopenia contributes to decreased gait speed, reduced grip strength, increased fall risk, and functional decline. This muscular dysfunction is best treated through the prescription of progressive resistance exercise. The individuals best positioned in the health care system to treat this health issue are rehabilitation professionals, especially those who are encountering these individuals while managing injury, illness, or long-term declines in function.
This webinar will improve your understanding of how to prescribe strength training for the geriatric patient. Participants will learn how to immediately apply these strategies to improve functional tasks like stair negotiation, walking endurance, bed mobility, and transfers. Differences in types of strength prescription and types of strength exercises will be defined to help understand the application in rehabilitation. Attendees will be able to immediately take this information and apply it in their existing rehabilitation programs to improve the outcomes for their patients.

Neuroplasticity & TBI - Live Webinar
2020-05-01 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Denver)
Following brain injury, the recovering patient requires dynamic and ongoing assessment and treatment to facilitate maximal recovery. Neuroplasticity, the ability to form new connections or reorganize existing connections, is a critical process in healing that takes the expertise of a skilled rehabilitation therapist to nurture. Dual tasking, whenconsidered carefully and implemented appropriately, can be apowerful method of stimulating neuroplasticity and maximize functional improvement. This webinar will provide the rehabilitation therapist with decision-making tools to determine when dual tasking is appropriate and how it can beincorporated into treatment. Clinicians will receive tools to immediately incorporate dual tasking into treatment activities and home exercise programming for patients following brain injury to help them reach their goals.
