Oculomotor Dysfunction and Tracking Exercises can be used with patients that have difficulty with eye-tracking or saccadic movements. Sometimes the patient may do the task fine, but it’s provocative to them, so in that case, we would want to work on it in therapy. We’ll start with an eye-tracking exercise Read more
What we know about running injuries is that over the last 40 years running injuries have been at a very high rate, and they’ve stayed at a high rate without really dipping much through the last 40 years. The ability of a therapist to properly conduct a functional movement screen Read more
Alex Behar, MD, is board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and sports medicine. Dr. Behar discusses how concussions are a complex injury and some tools that are used to understand the impact that a concussion has had on a patients brain function. Concussions are a complex injury, and the reason Read more
Many vestibular and oculomotor symptoms are evident only when provoked by stimuli or movements. Convergence insufficiency training can assist the clinician decrease dizziness in their patients. Vestibular rehabilitation and visual-oculomotor therapies involve an active, expose-recover approach to reduce impairment and symptoms. Initial results support the effectiveness of both vestibular and Read more
With an occipital stroke, there is the potential for a lot of visual changes in your patient. Your occipital lobes are where you interpret vision. Your retinas are where the image goes back through the optic chiasm and then it is processed in your occipital lobe to give you an Read more
Continuing Education to Identify the Appropriate Treatment for Shoulder Dysfunction
[ This material is an excerpt from our online stroke course which is part of our all access subscription, which is approved for Florida Occupational Therapy License Renewal. Learn more about our subscription for Florida Licensed Occupational Therapists and Assistants. ] Creating engaging inpatient rehab activities to enhance the fundamental Read more
Tone and the neurological patient Understanding tone with neurological patients is an essential continuing education course topic for occupational and physical therapists. Tone management continuing education needs to be part of any neurological educational program. Let’s say that you are working with a patient and notice an increase in their Read more
Immobility and the supine position creates a physiologically dysfunctional environment. As a component of acute care physical therapy continuing education, understanding the physiological effects of positioning and immobility provides a pathway to developing appropriate care plans for acute care patients. Multiple studies have been published on the positive impact that Read more
Sports concussion physical therapy continuing education can enhance your ability to develop effective treatment programs and return athletes to the field. Join us in this three week video series on concussions. The definition of a sports concussion We are going to talk a bit about how we define a sports Read more