Maximizing Function in Neurology for Older Adults: Stroke, Parkinson’s, Fall reduction, Gait and Balance

Dr. Carole B. Lewis, PT, DPT, MSG, MPA, PhD, GCS, GTCCS, TRC/CTR, FSOAE, FAPTA

20 Contact Hours

Give your patients the exceptional care they deserve

Give your patients with neurological conditions the exceptional care they deserve while making every treatment session more effective and efficient.

This highly practical, evidence-based course is designed for physical and occupational therapists who treat older adults in any practice setting. You’ll learn the latest research-supported examination techniques and interventions that can be seamlessly integrated into your current treatment programs—helping you improve patient outcomes without increasing documentation or treatment time.

Join Carole Lewis, an internationally recognized educator and clinician, as she demonstrates and guides participants through hands-on assessment tools, clinical reasoning strategies, and treatment techniques specifically designed for older adults with Parkinson’s disease, Stroke, Gait and balance disorders, Other common neurological conditions affecting older adults.

You’ll leave with practical interventions you can implement immediately to enhance balance, mobility, function, and participation while maximizing the value of every treatment session.Every Participant Receives: A comprehensive 300+ page clinical handbook, more than 6,000 current medical references, ready-to-use examination forms, validated outcome measures research-based treatment protocols, practical intervention techniques, home exercise programs that can be used immediately in clinical practice

Participants consistently describe this manual as “The Handbook of Great Treatments at Your Fingertips.” At completion of this course, you will be able to beat productivity, fill your sessions with meaningful interventions and give great care in limited time and avoid burning out .

Treat yourself and your patients and take this course.

Maximizing Outcomes in Orthopedics for Older Adults: Neck, Back, Shoulder, Hip, Hands and Knee Osteoarthritis, Total Joints, Rotator Cuff and More

Dr. Carole B. Lewis, PT, DPT, MSG, MPA, PhD, GCS, GTCCS, TRC/CTR, FSOAE, FAPTA

20 contact hours

Become the Therapist Older Adults Need Most

Older adults with orthopedic conditions are more medically complex, more fragile, and more challenging than ever before. Are your examination and treatment techniques keeping pace with the latest evidence?

Join internationally recognized geriatric rehabilitation expert Dr. Carole Lewis for the most comprehensive orthopedic rehabilitation course designed specifically for therapists who treat older adults. Whether your patients are frail, medically complex, or highly active, you’ll discover evidence-based examination strategies and creative, practical interventions that you can begin using with your very next patient.

You’ll learn how to:

• Evaluate older adults more efficiently and confidently.
• Choose interventions backed by the latest research.
• Progress patients safely while maximizing function and independence.
• Modify treatment for frail, medically complex, and high-functioning older adults.
• Save valuable treatment time without sacrificing outcomes.
• Improve balance, mobility, strength, pain, and overall function using techniques that fit into your existing treatment sessions.

You’ll leave with an incredible resource you’ll use for years:

• Every seminar slide
• Comprehensive examination tools and assessments
• Treatment protocols
• Clinical algorithms
• Patient resources
• Thousands of current references
• Practical clinical tools you can immediately implement

This isn’t just another continuing education course—it’s a complete clinical toolkit designed to transform how you evaluate and treat older adults with orthopedic conditions.

If you treat older adults in home health, outpatient, acute care, skilled nursing, assisted living, or rehabilitation, this course will change the way you practice.

Discover why therapists across the country consider this the most comprehensive geriatric orthopedic rehabilitation course available. Register today and return to work with new confidence, new skills, and treatment strategies that deliver better outcomes from day one.

Effective Manual Therapy to Boost Function and Mobility in Older Adults: An Amazing Hands On Course

Dr. Dennis Welling, PT, MTC, DPT, FSOAE

20 Contact Hours

Do you ever wonder why your older patients are not improving? Is there something you could do to make them better in a time efficient fashion? What about some great manual therapy interventions?  Dr. Dennis Welling, an experienced and dually certified manual therapist, will show you some of the most efficient and effective manual techniques you can use quickly and effectively with older adults. He will briefly present the relevant studies with demonstrations and tons of time to practice and learn these simple, but effective techniques. Additionally, he will present the common mistakes and suggestions for proper execution of this important modality. You will leave feeling competent in adding many different manual techniques to your current rehabilitation program to get great results.

Pharmacology and Aging: Implications for Therapists

Kenneth Miller, PT, DPT, PhD, FNAP, GCS, CEEAA

20 Contact Hours

Enhance Your Preparedness: Learn to Skillfully Assess and Address Medication Impact on Patient Function. Equip Yourself to Navigate the Influence of Medications on ADLs and IADLs.

This seminar provides participants with the necessary tools and information required to incorporate pharmacology and medication management into practice with older adults.  You will learn to identify and effectively manage polypharmacy and  learn techniques to help monitor patients for medication desired effects, side effects and help  physicians and nurses  safely manage medication use. Evidence-based tools and patient education resources will be provided to assist the participant with safe medication use. The course manual is a fabulous resource for daily practice.

Exercise Can Change the Parkinson Brain:

Improving Mobility and Function

Valerie A. Carter, PT, DPT, NCS, GCS

20 contact hours

Valerie Carter is one of the most entertaining yet top experts in the field of Parkinson’s Disease. She owns her own successful clinic, does her own outstanding research and is one of the country’s most animated speakers on this topic. This course has tons of research based clinically useful information for the clinician seeking to provide better care to their patients with Parkinsons Disease. This course will cover pathophysiology, etiology and differential diagnosis, as well as medications. The remainder of the course will be a deep dive into appropriate tests and measures and the most effective interventions for patients aging with Parkinson Disease.

Improving Function through Innovative Interventions for the Most Common Problems of Older Adults

Linda McAllister, PT, DPT, GCS, GTCCS, CEEAA, CEAGN, FSOAE

20 contact hours

Dig deep into several diagnoses commonly encountered in the older population and how to address them effectively at multiple levels of function. This course will go over an abundance of interventions based on current evidence. Instead of rote lecture, this course will provide time to practice these creative and innovative approaches for immediate use in the clinic.

Maximizing Mobility, Balance, Gait, and Fall Reduction Strategies to Improve Functional Outcomes in Older Adults

Trent Brown , MOT, OTR/L, ATP, CFPS, CGCP, BCG

20 contact hours

How can I improve quality of life and participation in meaningful activity while meeting the demands of the industry? How can I effectively evaluate and provide treatment strategies addressing stability, mobility, falls, confidence, gait, and mobility with my clients in their specific context?

If these questions are occupying your thoughts these days, then this innovative, evidence-based course is for you. You’ll learn new perspectives, at least a dozen assessment tools that provide objective data, and 2-3 dozen treatment strategies. And…you’ll be engaged and energized.

Trent Brown is known for making learning fun. His course is based on solid evidence, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t engaging. He is crazy creative! To make sure that you leave with practices that can be put to use safely tomorrow, he devotes 6-7 hours of this course to lab work. You will learn, practice, get feedback, and then practice again until you have mastered the skills.

Trent’s course manual is referred to as a picture book because it includes pictures of deficits, pictures of research results that address the problem (actual pictures, not just words), and then pictures of a therapist using assessments and interventions while working with a patient. Participants LOVE the picture book and many have told Trent that they attend his course because they’ve seen their colleagues’ picture book.

Evidence-Based Exercises that Exceed Expectations!

Mark Traffas, PT, GTCCS, FSOAE

20 Contact Hours

Taking Balance to the Limits

Janene Barber, PT, GTCCS, FSOAE

20 Contact Hours

Do you feel at times that you have designed and delivered the best gait and balance program and yet your patients still have some problems with their balance?

This course goes beyond all you have learned about the effects of speed, strength, and range of motion limitations as causes for balance dysfunction. You will leave with an in-depth knowledge and skill in the postural dyscontrol, somatosensation and vestibular arenas. The instructor has taught and treated extensively in this area with astounding results with her patients and clinicians. Her skills in this area are unparalleled.