CEU Courses for PTs

Authorization denied. Are you tired of having your length of stay or your number of visits dictated by an impersonal algorithm, or an insurance reviewer that does not understand the "case" (person) that you are working with? Do you feel that you have lost control over your professional role and clinical decision-making about prognosis, intensity, and interventions? Are you experiencing burnout because of your battles with peer-to-peer reviews and forms? Finally, do you feel incapable and caught between payers, families, administrations, and policies - leaving you to blame for not advocating effectively enough for the people that you entered your profession to help and defend? Let's talk about how to win these battles, proactively, and restore your agency, trust, and peace.

This course will provide the participant with a roadmap for developing or refining leadership skills in whatever role they serve as clinician, academician, or administrator. The roles of manager and leader will be explained in terms of motivation, productivity, and engagement.

Occupational and physical therapists are often key members of the wheelchair seating evaluation team. Seating interventions, including pressure management, seated angles, and strategies to address common positioning challenges will be addressed in this course.

Clear the cobwebs of confusion when diagnosing the source of pain in the lower extremity. Learn medical reasons in addition to musculoskeletal causes to resolve the "plateau" in treatment with knowledge of differential diagnosis.

This course provides a 2022 update on ACL rehabilitation and return to play testing. Load management principles applied to both rehabilitation and sports performance will also be discussed.

Master skills to implement in your practice immediately with continued Master Class. There is growing evidence that supports the benefit of providing care through an interprofessional approach for individuals with complex diagnoses like Parkinson’s disease (PD). This course serves to provide practical guidance in providing PT, OT, and SLP treatment set against the background of LSVT LOUD and LSVT BIG to positively impact the quality of life and function of those living with PD.

This course will provide an overview of cueing gait rehabilitation for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Common cueing rehabilitation techniques that can be used with people with Parkinson’s disease will be discussed and demonstrated.

This course will provide an overview of postural assessment and rehabilitation for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Common assessment and rehabilitation techniques that can be used with clinical, particularly neurological, patients will be discussed and demonstrated.

This course explores the effects of high-intensity, short duration training versus endurance cardio training on strength development in athletes. Discover how to program the frequency, mode, volume, intensity, and duration of cardio training sessions to design effective concurrent training sessions and programs for recreational and competitive athletes.

Patients seen in acute care practice demonstrate a wide variety of movement abilities, which can make the selection and use of standardized outcome measures a challenge. Learn what recommendations exist to inform decision making while reviewing some of the most practical outcome measures for acute care practice. This course is directly related to the practice of physical therapy and is therefore appropriate for the PT/PTA.