Introduction
- Current trends and statistics:
- Shoulder arthroplasty
- Reverse arthroplasty
- Knee arthroplasty
- Hip arthroplasty
- Implications and insight pertaining to the comprehensive joint replacement model
- Address the 15-20% of total joint patients that do not achieve therapeutic goals
- Identify barriers to functional restoration
- Recognize opportunities for improvement in the rehabilitation model
- Multifaceted Pain Management - Past practices, current trends and future directions
Addressing FAQ’s with Evidenced-Based Answers:
- Strategies to empower and motivate your patient
- Ensuring patient confidence in you as a clinician
- Explore evidence-informed answers to the most frequent questions patients ask:
- Why does my total knee keep clicking?
- Why is it still swollen?
- Can I kneel? Can I run? Can I swim and play golf with my reverse shoulder?
- When can I do yoga after my total hip?
- My surgeon is using a robot to do my surgery ... is that better?
- Do I need precautions after my posterior total hip?
- What can be done for my persistent pain after my total knee?
- Should I do therapy before my joint replacement?
Troubleshooting the Difficult Total Joint Patient
- Address Leg Length Discrepancy Pre and Post Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
- Preoperative Assessment and Early Detection
- Surgical considerations and patient education
- Postoperative Management and therapeutic interventions
- Patient Education, Communication, and Home Exercise Programming
- Total Shoulder and Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty
- Analyze biomechanics and spot compensatory movement patterns
- Reduce shrug and/or hike with range of motion
- Connect scapular motion and shoulder mobility
- Muscle activation and co-activation – how to find the right balance
- Interventions to develop joint stability with multiplanar mobility
- Address Altered Gait after Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty
- Normal gait cycle and key phases
- Pathologic Gait – finding red flags
- Subjective and objective assessment measures
- Comprehensive gait analysis – Identify deviations, asymmetries, and impairments
- Safe weight-bearing and loading progression activities
- Develop balance, stability and proprioception through therapeutic exercise
- Ambulation training
- The Stiff Total Knee Patient
- Identify fear avoidance patterns
- Combat self-limiting behaviors
- Down regulate tone and spasticity
- Joint mobilization techniques to enhance mobility
- Intra-active functional rehabilitation methods
Experiential Lab Workshop:
- Manual Therapy Techniques and Advanced Corrective Exercises for:
- Shoulder Arthroplasty
- Reverse Arthroplasty
- Knee Arthroplasty
- Hip Arthroplasty
- Live guided patient demos:
- Live interactive demos of manual therapy and corrective exercise techniques in real time