Therapist's Guide to Joint Rehab for the Knee, Hip, and Shoulder Course is organized by HomeCEU.
Course Description:
In this course, renowned board-certified orthopedic specialist, Dr. John O’Halloran, guides healthcare professionals on a history of joint replacement for the shoulder, hip and knee. Beginning with an overview of the facts and figures of the Baby Boomer generation, ideal candidates for the various types of joint replacements, the course explores advantages of therapeutic rehabilitation and facts and figures about arthritis and its treatment.
The course explains the significant recent surgical changes in joint replacement today versus yesteryear and how they impact today's rehab professional. By the end of this course, healthcare professionals will learn 20 new exercises and gain a comprehensive understanding of many facets of total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA), Total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) including statistical data, surgical techniques, both traditional and investigational, rehabilitation and outcomes as well as future implications.
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional through a self-paced study of joint replacement rehabilitation for the shoulder, hip and knee. The course is also intended to teach 20 new exercises for the joint replacement patient in all settings.
Professional Objectives:
• Identify the age facts and figures of the Baby Boomer generation.
• List three advantages of physical activity.
• Identify the facts and figures of arthritis including rankings for causing disability in Americans and percentage of Americans affected by the disease.
• Recognize three factors that affect arthritis.
• Identify three generally accepted orthopedic treatment of arthritis.
• Recognize 3 advantages of early core and proximal work.
• Recognize the history and statistical data of total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA).
• Identify the traditional surgical techniques for TSA.
• Identify investigational surgical techniques of TSA such as resurfacing.
• Recognize three key rehabilitation objective following TSA
• Identify outcome data for TSA.
• List surgical precautions, rehabilitation precautions and treatment goals following TSA.
• Recognize the indication for a reverse TSA.
• Identify the phases of rehabilitation following reverse TSA.
• Identify the history and statistical data of hip arthroplasty.
• Identify the surgical procedures of a traditional hip arthroplasty (THA)
• Identify three hip precautions and three reasons why hips dislocate.
• Describe the history and statistical data of knee arthroplasty.
• Recognize the different surgical approaches in TKA.
• Identify outcome data for TKA.
• Recognize the outcomes of Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) utilization.
• Identify the phases of rehabilitation following TKA