APTA MT Webinar Series: RECORDED: A Gendered Approach to Injury Risk, Audrey Elias, PT, PhD
APTA MT Webinar Series: RECORDED: A Gendered Approach to Injury Risk, Audrey Elias, PT, PhD is organized by American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) of Montana.
Start Date: Oct 09, 2023
End Date: Dec 31, 2024.
Course Description:
More than 20 years of research, hundreds of papers, and multiple branded risk-reduction training programs have failed to decrease the rate of knee injury risk in women and girls, who are still 3-6 times more likely to experience an ACL injury than their male counterparts. Previous approaches to the problem have been uniformly biological in scope. This talk examines the potential psychosocial and cultural overlays to previous models of injury risk, from presport, training, and competition, to injury and the treatment environment. Discussion will include how these gendered models may apply to athletes in Montana specifically, with highly varied cultural expectations.
Course Objectives:
• Understand modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for knee injury and how they are affected by cultural expectations
• Identify areas in which culture can affect movement
• Identify situations in which we as physical therapists in Montana may be inadvertently contributing to the problem, and areas in which we might intervene.
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.