Strength Exercise for Aging Adults – CEU course for PTs, OT's and Assistants

Education Resources - Strength Exercise for Aging Adulta

A great CEU course from dynamic instructor: Mark Richards

Whether you work in home health, outpatient, skilled nursing, a rehab center, or acute care, this course is designed to help you enhance your strength exercise treatments in a clinically realistic and practical way. Reimbursement and regulatory challenges make the provision of therapy more challenging than ever. How does one employ evidence-based treatment principles when there seems to be less and less time to treat patients? And, on top of that, deliver expected, superior clinical outcomes? Muscular weakness in aging adults is effectively treated when using the proper exercise protocols. 

Unfortunately, many therapists use strength exercise approaches that are not research-based, resulting in sub-par patient strength gains. This heavily evidence-based seminar will provide you with the information needed to deliver safe and highly effective optimal strength exercise to aging adults. The course is designed to enable you to immediately and efficiently incorporate the learned material into your treatments to help you get great treatment results! 

Please click here for more details, a brochure and for registration information

March 14, 2014 – Manchester, NH
April 11, 2014 – Newport News, VA
May 9, 2014 – Portland, OR
June 14, 2014 – New Brunswick, NJ 

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Research Showing School Based Brain Training Can Be An Alternative to Medication for ADHD

Neurofeedback brain training for ADHDA very interesting article highlighting research coming out of Tufts Medical Center, Boston

“With more than one in 10 children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, parents and doctors alike have been eager to find alternatives to prescription stimulant medications like Ritalin or Adderall. Some of these options include computer programs that train the brain to increase attention span and a therapy called neurofeedback where a practitioner teaches children how to keep their brain calm and focused.”

Please Click Here for Full Article

Has anyone heard of this new technique or had experience with it? We would love to hear your thoughts?

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OT seeks help in fostering better collaborative relationship with SLPs

DEAR ERI COMMUNITY: I am an OT and have gotten feedback from some of the SLPs that I work with… that I might be infringing on their territory. I see kiddos with a wide variety of sensory difficulties, and I don’t see why it can’t be a team approach with BOTH instead of OT versus SLP. 

Any Advice?

Thank you

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Congratulations to Faculty Member Chris Perme

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Our distinguished faculty member, Chris Perme has been named the recipient of the APTA Acute Care Section Lecture Award!!   Chris will be presenting the Fifth Acute Care Section Lecture at CSM 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana next year.

The Lecture Award’s purpose is to acknowledge and honor a member of the Acute Care Section-APTA for excellence and leadership in acute care physical therapy and for distinguished contributions to the section; to provide the recipient with an opportunity to share his/her achievements and ideas with Section membership through a lecture presented at the annual Combined Sections Meeting; and to provide a touchstone for the profession in assessing the role and value of acute care physical therapy. 

Considerations for this award include:

  • Effect on the shape, scope, and quality of acute care physical therapy practice
  • Quality and quantity of contributions to the Acute Care Section
  • Quality and quantity of contributions to the Association
  • General esteem in which the nominee is held by peers, as judged by favorable comments in the letters of support and sources of the comments
  • Ability to present a noteworthy lecture; acknowledged skills in the organization and presentation of written and/or oral communications, as documented in the letters of support and the nominee’s curriculum vitae

Chris was previously awarded the Mary Sinnott Award for Clinical Excellence in Acute Care 

Chris’s Course:

ICU and Acute Care Update: Focus on Early Mobility 

We would love to hear your comments if you have previously attended, or your questions if you are planning to attend this highly acclaimed course

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