Continuing Education for
Rehab Professionals
Presented by Rehab Connections
Rehab Connections specializes in cost-effective, one day, continuing education courses that have immediate application to patient care.
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Tackling Your Challenges in 2013 The managed care pendulum is swinging again and every therapist and assistant can be better prepared to meet the challenge. Your quality of patient care need not suffer. In fact, this is an opportunity to expand and hone your skills. This new course will enlighten you and provide you with the tools, strategies and resources to not only survive, but THRIVE! May 10, 2013 (Deerfield) June 22, 2013 • August 02, 2013 • October 19, 2013 | |
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8.0 CE Contact Hours |
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Functional Tests Need some assessment tools that are fun, functional, and fast? Need to show immediate change in your patient’s abilities or demonstrate the effectiveness of a technique or exercise you’ve shown them? This course provides experiential learning of functional tests that address muscle length, muscle recruitment, body mechanics, and more. These tests will enhance your confidence, your patient’s compliance, and your ability to document objective improvements. August 17, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Comprehensive Rehab following Hip & Knee Replacement Why not do SLRs? Can exercise “correct” a leg-length discrepancy? When is manual therapy essential? This important new course reviews common protocols and restrictions while presenting a plethora of ideas and effective interventions for your patients in the hospital, home and outpatient settings following total and partial hip and knee replacement June 14, 2013 • September 14, 2013 • December 14, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Solutions in 6 Visits These new topics introduce our cutting edge, innovative Solutions series of full day courses starting in 2013. In each course, we will highlight a common non-surgical, orthopaedic diagnosis. In the "Neck Pain" course, treatment strategies will emphasize posture, mobility and stability with multiple key functional tests and approaches to maximize patient compliance. In the "Knee OA" course, therapeutic exercises will be the focus to improve function and decrease pain. Neck Pain - May 17, 2013 • Knee OA - September 27, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Functional Exercise Progressions What functional activities or movements are most often challenging for your patients? In this active, energetic course, our focus is on practical therapeutic exercises that are patientfriendly and demonstrate skilled intervention by licensed rehabilitation professionals in all settings. July 12, 2013 • October 25, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Introduction to Feldenkrais This course presents the Feldenkrais Method® as an approach to help rehab professionals refine their clinical skills, create more opportunities for movement, and impact the nervous system to facilitate immediate, powerful results. |
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| 3.5 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Highlights of Medicare Reimbursement This popular one-day course has been updated to address new reporting requirements, in addition to selected policies, procedures, and coding topics. A variety of key resources that are easily accessible on-line will be viewed then provided as links for you to add to your bookmarks, tabs, and/or desktop or tablet home screen. July 19, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Core & More Remember “proximal stability for distal mobility” from PNF? Therapeutic exercise including neuromuscular re-education is a key intervention of physical therapy and occupational therapy, and core stabilization is a key component that is integral to optimal function. In this new full day course, a variety of core/trunk strengthening techniques are emphasized plus exercises are introduced that target cervical spine and scapular stabilizers and functional stability at the knee. August 16, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Anatomy at Your Fingertips: Palpation plus Manual Therapy & Exercise Improve your palpation sensitivity to enhance your manual therapy skills. Increase your confidence, accuracy and efficiency for palpating structures, and more. Demonstrations are conducted in a small group format. July 26, 2013 (LQ) • August 23, 2013 (UQ)
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Super Combo for
Geriatrics — Functional exercises in sitting and manual therapy Provide that special touch for your patients with a variety of skilled interventions that are especially effective in sitting positions. Whether your patient is non-ambulatory, debilitated, or recovering from surgery or injury; treated in the home, an inpatient or outpatient facility, this course will enable you to add practical exercises, manual techniques, and low tech, portable props to your "rehab tool box" for improving sitting balance, sit↔stand transfers, posture, endurance, symptoms of dysfunction, and functional mobility. November 02, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Pilates PLUS: Rings, Rolls, Balls and
Bands Enjoy an interactive one-day course experiencing guided exercise practice, multiple patient video examples, and a short mat class! Whether you are new to Pilates or practice the exercises regularly, this is your chance to learn or review selected concepts and modifications to apply the Pilates Method to rehabilitation. Experience with the Pilates Method is helpful but not essential for this course. July 17, 2013 One date only! |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Foam Roll Exercises for Physical Therapy and
Fitness Would you like to…
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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The Thrower's Imbalance: Risk factors,
pathomechanics, and treatment strategies for
today's throwers This one-day introductory course will equip you with the knowledge and tools to effectively manage patients with common throwing injuries. The most common locations of throwing injuries will be discussed and their potential underlying causes will be the focus of the examination and treatment. |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Wii™-hab Rarely is something new in rehab that truly engrosses a patient, facilitates optimal function quickly, and is applicable to all settings. This exciting and innovative course is engaging, creative, interactive, and will allow you to experience and observe this new adjunct approach to rehabilitation. May 11, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Runner Rx This course will provide you with knowledge and tools to help identify risk, and prevent and treat common running injuries. Emphasis will be on therapeutic interventions addressing functional goals. Course content will also include principles of training to assist patients/ clients to complete and recover from running events, ranging from a 5K to a marathon. In addition, implications for special populations will be highlighted. May 15, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Joint Mobilization of the Upper Extremity
This one day basic course presents a variety of manual techniques based on joint mobility assessment tools. Lecture, demonstration, and guided lab practice in manual therapy techniques will allow the physical therapy and occupational therapy professional to gain efficiency in evaluating and treating joint restrictions in the upper extremity. August 03, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Documentation Do your notes demonstrate skilled intervention? ...justify reimbursement? ...utilize terminology consistent with CPT codes and The Guide to Physical Therapist Practice? This course is designed to help therapists and assistants doing handwritten SOAP notes in both PT and OT to critique, streamline, and improve the quality of their documentation. September 21, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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ECLECTIC REHAB using Pilates, Yoga, Thai Yoga Massage and Tai Chi This new, active course will offer an eclectic, hands-on approach to improve balance, core strength, and flexibility in all patients, pediatric to geriatric patients. You will learn to help your patient become an active participant in their rehab using the principles and specific exercises from Pilates, Yoga and Tai Chi. June 26, 2013 • November 06, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Therapy Dogs This new and interactive one-day course will enlighten you on the various uses of Therapy Dogs in multiple settings. Learn benefits of involving Therapy Dogs in physical and occupational therapy, and have some doggone fun at the same time! August 10, 2013 One Date Only! |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Focus on SI and Pelvis Maximize your success in evaluating and treating sacroiliac and selective pelvic disorders. Learn new techniques or refresh your skills with effective and practical treatment techniques as well as a systematic approach to examination during this interactive one-day course. June 27, 2013 • November 22, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Muscle Energy Techniques This course offers an in-depth look at the theories and techniques of the manual art of muscle energy. You will learn how to effectively use muscle energy to improve joint position, mobility, and function. Lower Quadrant - May 18, 2013 Upper Quadrant - September 07, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Better Breathing These skills will be invaluable to the practitioner in any setting working with patients with reduced aerobic capacity and endurance, ranging from patients after spine surgery to athletes with asthma to patients with reduced tone on one side of their trunk following a stroke. November 15, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Eclectic Taping Ever wish a little bit of you could go home with your patients so that he or she could maintain better ROM, decreased pain, improved muscle facilitation, decreased tone and so on? May 04, 2013 • August 24, 2013 |
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours | Details |
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Integrate Yoga Positioning of extremities and joints for safe and beneficial yoga practice is also key for therapeutic exercises in rehabilitation. Yoga will help therapists utilize optimal cues to facilitate movement, strength, posture, and balance. You know the anatomy so this course will enable you to apply more of it to maximize your outcomes. This active, lab-based course will be both challenging and relaxing, simple and complex. It is appropriate for therapists in any setting and content is applicable to patients of all ages, diagnosis groups, and impairments.  September 11, 2013 (Homer Glen)
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| 7.0 CE Contact Hours + 3.0 Self Study Hours | Details |
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Contemporary Advances in Hip, Knee and Shoulder Arthroplasty
What the physical therapist and physical
therapist assistant need to know or ask. |
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6.0 CE Contact Hours |
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Morning Workshops A variety of topics for therapists in a variety of settings. During these interactive and highly experiential 3.5 CE contact hours workshops, in our popular small group format, you will have many opportunities to try a variety of concepts, techniques, and exercises that have direct applications in our multiple settings of rehabilitation. Exceptional handouts include illustrations and pictures of numerous therapeutic exercises and functional activities. Exercise Series |
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