Therapeutic modalities are often part of a comprehensive treatment use by therapists. This three-part series will provide an evidence-based review of common modalities used by healthcare professionals. Part 1 of this series will discuss thermal modalities.

The purpose of this course is to walk participants through an evidence based process for teaching skills to children with autism. The course will start with identifying what skills to teach, move to how to teach those skills, and end with how to monitor/evaluate progress.

This course discusses the use of complementary and alternative practices in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis based on current evidence. It provides the OT practitioner with an integrated approach utilizing these practices alongside traditional therapies.

This course will provide participants with information on how a large home health agency addressed changes in home health payment modeling, just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. This course will provide information on how home health agencies can adapt to quickly changing health care climates and still have a positive effect on patient outcomes.

Apathy and depression are two common complications of stroke which can negatively impact a person’s recovery. This course will review possible contributions of psychosocial and neuroanatomical factors to the development of post-stroke apathy and depression, and use case examples to illustrate how physical therapists can overcome these complications to improve patient outcomes.

The purpose of this course is to educate allied health care professionals on HIV fundamentals. Incidence, transmission, and infection control considerations relevant to patient management will be outlined.

This course will introduce seating/positioning needs common to the client with spinal cord injury, wheelchair selection related to client’s level of spinal cord injury, and training strategies to meet client’s independent mobility goals. Brief discussion of documentation requirements to obtain complex rehab technology for the client with spinal cord injury as well as outcome measures to assess effectiveness of training and intervention selection related to wheelchair training will be performed.

Types of pre-cut, pre-formed and sheet-based splint fabrication techniques are explored as well as instruction on the fabrication of a foot plate for external fixator application, the application of lower extremity splints and orthotics as well as splinting considerations for specific diagnoses including burn injury. A focus on creative splinting techniques is emphasized.

The most common elimination disorders in children are bedwetting and dysfunctional elimination syndromes. This course will focus on the treatment of children with day or nighttime urinary and/or fecal incontinence and constipation This is Part 2 of a 2-part series.

The most common elimination disorders in children are bedwetting and dysfunctional elimination syndromes. This course will focus on the treatment of children with day or nighttime urinary and/or fecal incontinence and constipation.