Course Description
Both educational sessions will utilize a case-based format to educate participants on how to utilize clinical prediction rules for walking recovery to appropriately apply and modify high-intensity gait training for patients following spinal cord injury. The first session will focus on a non-ambulatory individual acutely following spinal cord injury participating in inpatient rehabilitation while the second session will focus on an ambulatory individual in the chronic phase of spinal cord injury with goals of returning to running.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Verbalize at least two relevant physical interventions for a given patient with biomechanical deficits in gait
2. Summarize the evidence regarding the potential benefits of high-intensity gait training over conventional interventions in spinal cord injury
3. Describe the current evidence regarding prediction of walking recovery following spinal cord injury
Course curriculum
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1
Course Overview
- Course Description and Objectives
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2
Online Course
- Part 1 - HIT during IP Rehab Following Central Cord Injury
- Part 1 - Knowledge Checks
- Part 2 - HIT During OP Rehab with Goals of Returning to Running
- Part 2 - Knowledge Checks
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3
Article Review
- Article Review Instructions
- Scivoletto, 2014 - Knowledge Checks
Presenters
Kelsey Christensen, PT, DPT, is a physical therapist specializing in neurologic rehabilitation after spinal cord injury. She received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Indiana University in 2018 and works with individuals with SCI and other neurologic diagnoses at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indianapolis. She also teaches as an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University to teach third year DPT students to evaluate and treat individuals with SCI. She recently won the Ohio State University Emerging Clinical Instructor Award for 2023.
Chris Henderson, PT, DPT, PhD, is an Assistant Research Professor within Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department of Physical Medicine and the Director of Innovation for the Institute for Knowledge Translation. He has his PhD in Biomechanics and Movement Science from the University of Delaware. He has also completed a Neurologic Physical Therapy Residency jointly supported by the Clement J Zablocki Veterans Affairs Hospital and Marquette University. Dr. Henderson’s work is focused on optimizing the rehabilitation of individuals following acute onset neurologic injuries and translating evidence-based interventions into routine neurologic physical therapy.
Pricing and CEUs
Registration is $50 per person.
This course is approved by the Indiana Physical Therapy Association for 3.0 CEUs.
Participants are responsible for transferring CEUs for approval in other states