CEU Courses for PTs

This course reviews current literature, definitions, and guidelines on dementia in older adults and its impact on physical activity and physical therapy practice. Recommended treatments, precautions, and contraindications when treating individuals with dementia and implementing functional exercise are also included.

This course provides the attendee with the definition, evaluation methods, treatment strategies, and discharge planning for home health patients living with frailty.

Pudendal neuralgia can create significant pain and disability. This course will cover the etiology of pudendal neuralgia as well as best practices for evaluation and treatment

Running related injury is a common presentation in physical therapy practice. Some studies report over 50% of runners will experience an injury that limits participation at some point. The majority of injuries specific to distance runners will occur in the lower quarter and many of these will involve the lower leg and foot and ankle complex. This course will review the epidemiology of selected running related injuries and provide evidence-based recommendations for examination and treatment.

Building a therapist's capacity to incorporate cultural humility into their everyday practice is the purpose of this course. It will also stress the importance of self-reflection to allow therapists to examine their attitudes on cultural humility and foster views about acceptance and inclusion to create more authentic and meaningful therapeutic relationships with their clients.

Learn how to program resistance training sessions and programs for athletes and long-time recreational exercisers over age 50. With an emphasis on training load and recovery this course is designed with real-world applications in mind and includes a discussion of popular recovery tools like cold water immersion, compression therapy, and vibrating foam rollers.

This course presents a variety of commercial and assistive cognitive technologies which can be used to remediate and accommodate intellectual disabilities. The information is designed to help prepare the participant for the RESNA ATP examination.

This course compares traditional gait analysis to the four biomechanical subcomponents of gait as they relate to high intensity gait training for the neurologic patient. The available evidence for treatment strategies to address these gait impairments commonly seen in the neurologic client is included in this course.

Adhesive Capsulitis is characterized by a painful, gradual loss of motion which may lead to significant functional limitations. This session reviews the epidemiology, classification, and differential diagnosis associated with adhesive Capsulitis. Current evidence related to conservative physical therapy management utilizing exercise and joint mobilization is reviewed.

This course equips the physical therapist to identify pre-diabetes and type 1 diabetes in their patients based on history and clinical signs and symptoms. Exercise Prescription, the interaction of other medications, and modulation of a current exercise program for patients with diabetes as a co-morbidity are also included. This course also includes the management of diabetes from a Covid-19 perspective.