Education

TREAD SYSTEM™
 CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR PROFESSIONALS
14 CEUs for Physical and Occupational Therapists
 $425.00
 
TREAD™ by Age Spans™ is an efficent way of putting the vast amount of information available on both wellness and illness into an organized, easy-to-use system that can help clinicians improve their patient outcomes, and help individuals and businesses reduce their health care costs.
 
SEPTEMBER 15-16, 2012
 EAST JEFFERSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
 METAIRIE, LOUISIANA
 EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT OF $375 IF REGISTERED BY AUG 15
 GROUP DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR THREE OR MORE FROM THE SAME FACILITY
 CALL 504-676-4338 FOR DETAILS
 

NOVEMBER 3-4, 2012
 TOURO INFIRMARY
 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
 EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT OF $375 IF REGISTERED BY OCT 1
 GROUP DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR THREE OR MORE FROM THE SAME FACILITY
 CALL 504-676-4338 FOR DETAILS
 

REGISTER BY COMPLETING THE FORM BELOW.  YOU WILL BE DIRECTED TO PAYPAL.

Course Title: TREAD™ Level 1: System for Evaluation, Treatment, and Documentation in Skilled Therapy
Instructors:   Melanie Weller PT, MPT, OCS, ATC, CEEAA
                     Carol Coutant PT, CEEAA
Learner Objectives:
1. Comprehend components of an evaluation and intervention system that incorporates evidence based testing, restorative interventions, exercise prescription, exercise progression, and documentation of skilled care.
2. Comprehend a method to categorize patients based on testing results into a mobility category.
3. Comprehend limitations of movement and movement patterns that interfere with safe and pain free function.
4. Knowledge of skilled interventions to resolve limitations and movement patterns interfering with safe and pain free function.
5. Comprehend a system of progressive, functional exercises for patients in each mobility category.
6. Comprehend how to create exercises to advance patients from lower mobility categories to higher ones using evidence based dosage.
7. Comprehend how to integrate and progress functional exercise programs.
8. Comprehend how to use evaluation results in order to design treatment plan, set goals, apply treatment plan to achieve goals, and assess treatment efficacy and outcomes.
9. Accurately identify and perform tests with associated normative data in the following categories: 
a. Metrics of composition, alignment, and mobility
b. Functional Strength
c. Balance
d. Efficiency
10. Able to use exertional, dyspnea, anginal, and claudication scales to determine appropriate intervention, monitor response, and progress patient.
11. Knowledge of ROM minimums for functional activities.
12. Identify how thresholds of tests relate to patient function, health risk, intervention, goals, and documentation.
13. Create functional goals using evaluation and test results.
14. Implement treatment interventions based on test findings and established plan of care.
15. PTs and OTs:  Understand how to write a complete patient evaluation, Reassessment, and Discharge Summary that meets the standards of CMS and RAC Reviewers.
16. PTAs and COTAs  Understand how to write a complete treatment note using test findings and treatment plan set by PT/OT that meets the standards of CMS and RAC Reviewers.
17. Use test findings to coordinate care between disciplines and establish rehab potential.

Course Outline: 
1.  Introduction of evaluation and intervention system that incorporates evidence based testing, restorative interventions, exercise prescription, exercise progression, and documentation of skilled care. (45 min)
2. Presentation of mobility categories (30 min)
3. Techniques to address each component of the evaluation and intervention system:  gait, cognition, sensory, aerobic capacity, motor learning, mechanical, muscle performance, and pain. (45 min)
4. Break (15 min)
5. Standardized testing for metrics of composition, alignment, and mobility, and how they relate to functional limitations and mobility categories. (60 min)
a. Practical Lab (30 min)
6. Break (60 min)
7. Standardized testing for functional strength and how test results relate to functional limitations and mobility categories. (60 min)
a. Practical lab (30 min)
8. Standardized testing for balance and how test results relate to functional limitations and mobility categories (60 min)
a. Practical Lab (30 min)
9. Break (15 min)
10. Standardized testing for efficiency and how test results relate to functional limitations and mobility categories (60 min)
a. Practical Lab (30 min)
11. Metrics:  (60 min)
a. Restorative strategies for metrics
b. Exercise and exercise dosing for improving metrics
c. Advancing exercises for metrics as the patient moves between mobility categories
d. Documenting metrics to support functional markers and outcome measures.
12. Functional Strength (60 min)
a. Restorative strategies for functional strength
b. Exercises and exercise dosing for improving functional strength
c. Advancing exercises for functional strength the patient moves between mobility categories
d. Documenting functional strength to support functional markers and outcome measures.
13. Break (15 min)
14. Balance (60 min)
a. Restorative strategies for balance
b. Advancing exercises for balance the patient moves between mobility categories
c. Exercises and exercise dosing for improving balance
d. Documenting balance to support functional markers and outcome measures
15. Efficiency (60 min)
a. Restorative strategies for efficiency
b. Exercises and exercise dosing for improving efficiency
c. Advancing exercises for efficiency as the patient moves between mobility categories
d. Documenting efficiency to support functional markers and outcome measures.
16. Break (60)
17. Documenting progression and regression. (15 min)
18. Documenting influencing factors on patients’ ability to progress toward goals. (15 min)
19. Documenting skilled care vs unskilled care. (30 min)
20. Troubleshooting when a patient isn’t progressing: non-compliance or bankrupt expertise? (30 min)
21. Summary, Q&A (30 min)
Instructional Methods:
1.  Lecture
2. Demonstration
3. Lab
4. Case Studies
5. Patient simulations or real patients
6. Handouts
7. Power point and video