Course Current Concepts in Orthopedic Evaluation and Management
Course Description Orthopedic care is more complex than ever before, Health care professionals caring for orthopedic patients must understand the standards of care and their rationales when evaluating, diagnosing, treating, referring and providing follow up care. Neil Adler, PA-C, MA, is excited to bring you up to speed on the latest advance in orthopedic care in the clinic and surgical setting. Topics included during this interactive and highly informative day include:
• The 5 minute orthopedic exam.
• Triaging injuries
• Hand emergencies & critical interventions
• Dehiscence, wound drainage & delayed union
• Grading open fractures
Neil will share his practical tips and techniques that will help you identify urgent and emergent conditions and complications when assessing your patients. You will leave with a sense of confidence and new knowledge that you can apply to your practice the very next day.
October 29-31, 2010
Course Clinical Examination and Manual Therapy of the Hip and Pubic Symphysis
Instructor Keith Poorbaugh PT, ScD, OCS, CSCS, FAAOMPT
Location Advanced Physical Therapy of Alaska
1917 Abbott Road, Suite 200 Anchorage, Alaska
Cost $665
CEU Credits 22.5
Course Description This is the only hip course you’ll need to master the newest, most effective diagnostics and therapies available today.
Diagnose precisely, treat effectively
If you manage patients with hip pain, you cannot miss this interactive learning opportunity! After one three-day course, you will return to your practice retooled with critical knowledge and experience including:
· Exact knowledge of hip patho-anatomy, physiology, and bio mechanics
· Ability to perform concise clinical exams
· Methodology to interpret clinical exams, to offer your clients precise diagnoses
· A solid framework for prescribing affliction-specific exercises
· The skills to combine soft tissue and specific articulation techniques for total treatment
· Mastery in the most successful techniques for treating tendons, ligaments, and peripheral nerves
Key questions, accurate answers
Physical therapist need to ask the right questions in order to provide the best answers to clients who suffer from hip pain.
· How can you differentiate between an adductor muscle strain and an injury in the acetabular labrum?
· What are the latest procedures for treating an acetabular labrum injury?
· What are the key exercises to prescribe for a trochanteric pain syndrome?
· How do you identify the accurate ligament as a pain generator?
· What is the most effective way to mobilize the hip joint to improve extension?
· My patient has buttock pain—how do I easily decide the source of the pain?
· What else can cause pain in the lateral hip besides bursitis?
· What are the best exercises for pelvic ring instability?
You will find these answers and more at the IAOM-US Hip course
For more information or to register please visit:
November 6-7, 2010
Course: Total Motion Release Seminar
Instructor: Todd Pollock, PT
Location: Soldotna, Alaska
Cost: $595 CEU Credits: 30 credit hours
Course Description: Total Motion Release teaches you how to
get faster results with a little known secret that you can see in
action on our website
www.totalmotionrelease.com. Watching
just one free video will make you want to learn more. You have
not seen anything like this in your schooling or other seminars.
The most powerful part of Total Motion Release is the patient
learns how to do it for themselves. It provides them with a life
time pain relief solution. You've never seen a positive change in
patients compliance until you see how empowered they become
with this program. This is one seminar you don't want to miss or
you'll be sorry the next time you see a severe disc pain patient
who just did not't improve no matter what you did.
November 30-December 3,2010
Course Wound Care Challenges and Solutions
Instructor Joan Junkins, MSN, APTN-CNS, CWOCN
Location Anchorage, Alaska
Cost $179.00
CEU Credits 6.25 Contact Hours
Course Description Do you work with patients who have wounds that just won’t heal despite your repeated and various attempts? Are you finding the regulations becoming more stringent as your budget for wound care continues to get tighter? This seminar has been designed to provide you with the tools to combat the everyday frustrations associated with wound care.
For more information or to register please visit:
www.pesihealthcare.com or call 800-843-7763
