Physicourses Orthopedics

Esports Health and Performance: Medical 1

Welcome to the medical certification 15 hour course for the Esports Health and Performance Institute. This course is designed for practicing musculoskeletal medical professionals to understand how to integrate their practice into any esports or gaming setting. This course is a sequel to the Foundations course and if you find yourself here without having taken that course first please complete Foundations before beginning.

Course OverviewPre-participation Screening For EsportsUnderstand the evidence-based pre-participation screening used at the highest levels of esports with teams like 100 Thieves, CLG, and Team Liquid. With an emphasis on practical and applicable knowledge, you use the provided templates to run a pre-season health screen in the professional, collegiate, or even high school setting. Current Issues in Esports Medicine and PerformanceSuccessful integration with players and teams requires an understanding of esports organization structure, culture, and operation. Learn about successful strategies in esports medicine for integrating with esports teams at a variety of levels.Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Esports IssuesThe medical certification provides an in-depth dive into the region-specific considerations for gaming and esports. Each section includes a review of anatomy and biomechanics, a breakdown of subjective and objective evaluation essentials, and a comprehensive overview of diagnostic and intervention techniques for the most common gaming injuries. Regions covered include hand/wrist/forearm, elbow, shoulder, neck, and thoracolumbar.Esports-Specific Tendon RehabDue to the high APMs and low load nature of gaming and esports, tendinopathic injuries are common. Youll learn the most evidence-based approaches for managing tendinopathy spectrum disorders as efficiently as possible.

Resistance Training for the Older Adult

Hybrid Course: Video Taught by Virtual Instructor, Includes Self-Study PDF/EBook

Exercise is a therapists wheelhouse. While other wellness providers (fitness instructors, athletic trainers, etc.) routinely prescribe, establish, and update exercise programs, therapists are uniquely qualified to ensure that the special needs of older individuals and those with pathology are met both safely and effectively through exercise. A key feature of exercise prescription is that each program aspect must be undergirded by sound rationale. This course discusses research-based principles and parameters of resistance exercise prescription for older individuals. Included in this course is how to accurately assess muscle performance and prescribe resistance training exercises geared toward increasing muscle strength, power, endurance, and/or hypertrophy. This course is especially suited for physical and occupational therapists and their assistants who desire to safely increase muscle performance while effectively improving function for their patients in the shortest time available.This course is offered in a hybrid, multimedia format including a video course taught by a virtual instructor and a E-book/PDF. Please download the E-book/PDF Document in the Downloads menu, and read along with the digital presenter as they provide voice-over commentary of the course. The materials in the E-book/PDF and in the video course overview will be included on the required quiz at the end of the course to earn your CEU or CPD credits.Physicourses is an AOTA Approved Provider of profession...

Hip Fracture Rehabilitation: Literature Review

Hybrid Course: Video Taught by Virtual Instructor, Includes EBook/PDF

Hip fractures are a major source of disability in older adults. This course, based on six recent peer-reviewed open-access articles, provides rehab professionals with current information on topics relevant to this patient population. The first article summarizes existing literature on the difference in outcomes between internal fixation, hemiarthroplasty, and total hip arthroplasty for femoral neck fractures in older adults. The second article reviews chemical VTE prevention regimens and provides recommendations for intervention after hip or knee arthroplasty. The third article examines complications after hip fracture surgery among patients on Coumadin. The fourth and fifth articles discuss home-based rehabilitation after hip fracture as compared to outpatient or skilled nursing facility care. The final article examines the relationship between measurable sarcopenia and health-related outcomes and mortality rates after hip fracture surgery. The information presented in this course can help improve and update the clinical practice of any rehab professional who treats older patients who have sustained a hip fracture.This course is offered in a hybrid, multimedia format including a video course taught by a virtual instructor and a E-book/PDF. Please download the E-book/PDF Document in the Downloads menu, and read along with the digital presenter as they provide voice-over commentary of the course. The materials in the E-book/PDF and in the video course overview will be included...

Orthopedic Surgery Rehabilitation: Literature Review

Hybrid Course: Video Taught by Virtual Instructor, Includes EBook/PDF

Orthopedic surgeries are among the most common surgical procedures for older adults. This course, based on five recent peer-reviewed open-access articles, provides rehab professionals with current evidence-based information on rehabilitation after orthopedic surgery in the elderly. The first article in the group examines family caregiver issues when caring for an older patient after orthopedic surgery. The next two articles look at return to sport after shoulder arthroplasty or unicompartmental knee replacement. The final two articles examine the influence of pre- and post-surgical exercise on outcomes after hip or knee replacement. The information presented in this course will be immediately useful in evidence-based clinical practice for all rehab professionals who treat this population.This course is offered in a hybrid, multimedia format including a video course taught by a virtual instructor and a E-book/PDF. Please download the E-book/PDF Document in the Downloads menu, and read along with the digital presenter as they provide voice-over commentary of the course. The materials in the E-book/PDF and in the video course overview will be included on the required quiz at the end of the course to earn your CEU or CPD credits.

Chronic Whiplash Associated Disorders and Pain Science by EIM

Chronic pain after a motor vehicle collision (MVC) is very common with an estimated 30% of patients developing persistent pain and disability. New emerging science show that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms of hyperarousal, re-experiencing the accident, avoidance and numbing is very common in chronic whiplash-associated disorders. The addition of PTSD symptoms, along with well-described comorbid depression and anxiety may indicate why traditional, tissue-only focused physical therapy treatments struggle to produce successful outcomes. Newly designed psychologically informed treatments aiming at fear-avoidance, pain catastrophizing, trauma, depression, anxiety, and PTSD-symptoms have shown some potential benefits alongside physical treatments offered by physical therapists. The use of these psychologically informed treatments, along with movement-based treatments of exercise and manual therapy may hold the key to a more successful outcome. New research shows that patients in MVCs prefer psychologically informed treatments delivered by physical therapists, versus psychologists and overall prefer it over a pharmaceutical approach to their pain. This session will discuss the various factors associated with poor outcomes, screening tools that should be used by clinicians and various treatments to help decrease pain and disability.

FREE Mini Course on Medial Hip x Gray Institute

Try out our FREE mini course on the Medial Hip Complex brought to you by the Gray Institute. This course gives students a sneak peek into the excellent content they will learn in the full length CAFS course. CAFS: Certification in Applied Functional ScienceMost protocols dont allow for the unique differences of individuals. The results are often plateaus and dead ends in treatment/training. CAFS will help you design customized assessments and build treatment/training programs that are tailor made for all kinds of people so you honor the differences of your patients/clients and help them achieve better individualized outcomes.We recognize how frustrating it is when the one-size-fits-all protocols we were taught no longer help us achieve the results our patients/clients need. Having trained over 250,000 Movement Professionals, well teach you the 8 Fundamental Movements of the body. Next, well walk you through 10 Observational Essentials of human movement. Additionally, well show you Local to Global movement progressions for the primary joint complexes of the body. Finally, well show you how to put it all together to create a limitless number of variations in assessment and treatment/training.

The Overhead Throwing Athlete by EIM

The goal of this online course is to provide a deeper understanding of the unique characteristics and needs of the overhead throwing athlete for integration of these unique features and sports medicine knowledge base resulting in the best, evidence-based management of these athletes. This course will cover the foundational anatomical demands, common adaptations, sports biomechanics, and kinematics for integration of these principles into the evidence-based management of these athletes from injury prevention through return to competition and performance enhancement.

Rehabilitative Tai Chi for Chronic Back Pain

Brian Trzaskos, PT, LMT, CSCS, CMP, MI-C

The Georgetown University Health Policy Institute reports that 65 million Americans report experiencing low back pain, while health economists estimate that the cost of chronic pain in the United States is $635 billion annually. Back pain is the leading cause of lost work days and has a high correlation to feelings of emotional distress. Current research is revealing the broad ineffectiveness of long-term pharmaceutical approaches and strongly suggests that successfully treating the multifactorial nature of chronic back pain requires an integrative, holistic approach. Tai Chi is a widely recognized mind-body modality and non-pharmacological approach in treating chronic pain conditions. This highly insightful 2-hour course has been designed to outline the scientific and physiologic basis of key rehabilitative Tai Chi components, to instruct simple Tai Chi practices shown to be effective in remediating back pain and dysfunction, and to review the evidence base for validating rehabilitative Tai Chi in the treatment of patients dealing with chronic back pain.Highlights Practice 10, easy-to-use rehabilitative Tai Chi strategies that can be applied immediately in patient care Effectively validate the evidence-based benefits of Tai Chi in rehabilitation to even the most resistant patients and colleagues

Unusual Cases in Rehab Series: Lumbar Spine, Hip, and Shoulder

This course is a unique opportunity to work through several challenging cases in the rehabilitation setting. Participants will work through cases to learn more about various diagnoses and injuries in the lumbar spine, hip, and shoulder. Participants will have the opportunity to make their own diagnoses as they are guided through the differential diagnosis process that the author considers throughout the rehab process. At the end of the case, the course will review current evidence for the rehabilitation management of them. This course will sharpen your clinical critical thinking skills and deepen your assessment approach to uncommon injuries of the hips and shoulders.Highlights Immediately improve your ability to apply clinical reasoning in rehabilitation management to the orthopedic patient with uncommon injuries to the spine, hip, and shoulder Clinically applicable strategies for managing orthopedic injuries including differential diagnosis considerations Unique case studies to improve your approach to unusual injuries

Evaluation of the Shoulder Complex

S. Chris Owens PT, ScD, OCS, CSCS, FAAOMPT

The prevalence of shoulder pain in the general population is estimated as being between 15 and 20%. It is the second most common reason for individuals with musculoskeletal seeking treatment from general medical practitioners. Clinicians are faced with the challenge of performing a timely, comprehensive examination that provides the necessary information for the development of a clear plan of care for patients and clients. Once the examination is complete, clinicians must choose the best evidence-based interventions. This course will assist clinicians with prioritizing examination tests and measures by presenting recent diagnosis related research for the shoulder complex. A case-based clinical reasoning approach will provide participants with the ability to clearly communicate findings with patients and colleagues. Clinicians with all levels of experience and expertise will be able to effectively categorize patients with shoulder dysfunction into clear treatment-based categories to facilitate effective treatment.Highlights Provide a 15-minute systematic examination that includes differential diagnosis for the shoulder complex Rapid examination processes for assigning patients to effective treatment-based categories Acquire the most reliable and relevant clinical information with minimal tests and measures and special tests Valid systematic approaches to interpreting complex clinical problems Communication tools to effectively collaborate with all treatment team members, inclu...