Sara Meeks' Stepping Exercise Down For Improved Function Course
Sara Meeks' Stepping Exercise Down For Improved Function Course is organized by PT Seminars.
Course Description:
This evidence-based, experiential, active, and participatory 1.5-hour webinar will focus on the management of the long-term, chronically ill, physically-frail, or pre-frail, cognitively-intact patient. The presentation will include adapted exercise and movement suggestions for patients who are being seen by rehabilitation personnel in ICU, Acute Care, Home Care, Nursing Homes, Skilled Nursing, and Long-Term Care Facilities such as burn and organ transplant units as well as Out-Patient. These patients frequently exhibit several co-morbidities (e.g., COPD, osteoporosis, burns, organ transplants, cardio-pulmonary and neurological conditions) that may influence movement and exercise prescription. Some of these conditions may have conflicting treatment options (e.g., spinal stenosis vs osteoporosis) and some diagnoses may take precedence over others
Emphasis is placed on innovative techniques for strengthening the core muscles: Diaphragm and other Breathing Muscles, Lower Abdominals, Pelvic Floor and Back Extensors, and other “Fountain-of-Youth Muscles” such as the Gluteus Maximus and Medius.
Course Objectives:
• Identify the conditions of physical frailty and osteoporosis as they pertain to patient populations that are being seen by rehab personnel
• Identify the guidelines for the management of the patient with an acute spinal compression fracture
• Identify the principles of modification of an exercise program including breath and The Re-Alignment Routine to meet the needs of the individual patient
• Demonstrate movement from and for the bones
• Demonstrate Perch Posture, Safe Sit-To-Stand-To-Sit, 2 Visual Images for Postural correction, Beginning Weight-Shifting Exercises for Balance, and 2 Different Visual
• Images for Improvement in Gait
• Identify a beginning therapeutic exercise program for the physically frail or pre-frail patient and revise it as necessary using the principles of The Meeks’ Method
• Demonstrate elements of Postural Correction, Balance, Gait, and ADL’s
• Identify indications for bracing with the Spinomed III Spinal Orthosis, use of the Sit-To-Stand Independence Chair, and the LivMD Low-Intensity Vibration unit
• Identify the principles of movement and discuss the progression of the program to the next levels of care
Course Outline:
• Introduction to the meeks method
• Patterns of postural change©
• Anatomy from and for the bones
• Principles of movement
• Adaptation of movement and exercises
• Populations
• Compression fracture information and management
• Out of bed and into life
• Q&A