January
Comprehensive Management of Peripheral Edema: A Certification Course
Description: Recent events, such as the COVID-19 epidemic, have expanded our understanding of the physiological relationship between inflammation and infectious diseases, chronic comorbidities, and trauma. The deleterious impact of these conditions and diseases often results in local or systemic edema. These sequelae are a common immune system response, which occurs to facilitate healing. However, when inflammation and edema become chronic, its presence can lead to functional limitations, impairments, and pain. Understanding the lymphatic and circulatory systems is critical to facilitate healing and restore homeostasis. This evidence-informed course emphasizes comprehension of the pathophysiology of various edemas, differential diagnosis, and the clinical reasoning skills required to develop a successful treatment plan. The long-term management of systemic and local edemas, such as lymphedema, post-surgical edema, cardiac edemas, and chronic venous insufficiency, requires an individually tailored, contemporary, and comprehensive plan to address lifespan needs and improve health outcomes.
Cost: $2,199
CEU’s: 7.4 CEUs or 74 Contact Hours (54 onsite contact hours and 20 hours of pre-course work)
Date: January 11-16, 2024
Location: Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy – 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016
The Autism Project: A Common Goal Fostering Empathetic Relationships Within a Child’s Care Team
Description: To deliver impactful care, a person’s team must work as a cohesive, trusting, and therapeutic network. Distrust, bias, frustration, miscommunication, cultural norms, opposing expectations, and trauma can all influence one’s approach to members of the team. These influences often lead to breakdowns in communication and can negatively impact the individual with ASD as a result. This presentation addresses, from both the family and professional perspective, causes of these communication breakdowns, and strategies for repairing and preventing them. Through an empathetic understanding of each person’s experience, a therapeutic and effective team will emerge.
Cost: $30
CEU’s: 2 Contact Hours or .2 CEUs
Date: January 12, 2024
Location: Live-Virtual
February
ICDL FloorTime: DIR 101
Description: Coming Soon!
Cost: $199
CEUs: Pending
Date: February 9-10, 2024
Location: Live-Virtual
FTF Consulting: Today’s ABA
Description: Coming Soon!
Cost: $50
CEUs: Pending
Date: February 10, 2024
Location: Live-Virtual
The Autism Project: Toilet Training
Description: Toilet training is challenging for most parents and caregivers. This 2-hour training discusses why toilet training a child with ASD can be especially challenging and provides strategies and tools to begin and complete the process. This training compares neurodiverse toilet training to neurotypical toilet training and is designed for healthcare professionals, parents and caregivers. The course will discuss specific strategies and interventions for daily use.
Cost: $30
CEUs: 2 Contact Hours/.2 CEUs
Date: February 23, 2024, 9:00-11:00am EST
Location: Live-Virtual
March
Know to Change: Don’t Wait for Gait!
Description: Often, parents and therapists are told that children with delayed gross motor development will “outgrow” it, or “walk when they are ready.” This course addresses the flaws of such a “wait and see” approach, while supporting proactive & preventive intervention. Delayed achievement of independent ambulation, in both the typical and special needs populations, often results in difficulties with peer interaction and social development. In addition, the risk is greater for academic difficulties and limits opportunities for cognitive development. The increased prevalence of developmental delay is considered, with proposed etiologies, assessment of pre-gait skill performance, related orthopedic consequences and the future affects of this diagnosis on postural control and ambulation. Course content highlights gait and the relationship with the sensory systems, movement and activity. Neuroplasticity, and the opportunities for therapists, is presented regarding qualities of ideal mobility. Orthopedic development is presented as it concerns appropriate development of an adequate base of support and assessment of the pediatric lower quarter.
Cost: $369
CEUs: 12.5 Contact Hours
Date: March 1-2, 2024, 10:00am-4:30pm EST
Location: Live-Virtual
Ivy Education: Treating the Dizzy Patient: BPPV and Beyond
Description:
This hybrid course will include a full day of hands-on lab work and an on-demand review of vestibular Anatomy and Physiology. This course will give clinicians the tools they need to manage the “dizzy” patient. Participants will learn a comprehensive and integrated approach to screening all systems when they see a patient with overall dizziness and imbalance in the clinic or in the community. By the end of this course, participants will feel confident and competent in current best practices to evaluate and progress the dizzy patient.
Specifically, this course will focus on the peripheral and central Vestibular system with emphasis on the assessment and treatment of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV). This course will delve into each of the three semicircular canals and identify nystagmus patterns to accurately assess and treat BPPV. Based on findings, clinicians will select and perform specific maneuver protocols and habituation exercises to optimize outcomes in patients suffering from peripheral vertigo. Clinicians will also be competent in picking up red flags consistent with central vertigo, understand when to refer and be competent in screening for balance impairment and fall risk associated with dizziness and vestibular dysfunction.
Lastly, all clinicians will be supplied with marketing strategies and materials to utilize and promote this specialty area of practice within their clinical setting and communities!
Cost: $250
CEUs: Pending
Date: March 9, 2024, 8:00am-5:00pm EST
Location: Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy, 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016
BSPTS North America: Level 1
Description: The L1 Course builds upon the Base Course information about anatomy, etiology, clinical and radiological examination, curve classification, and treatment guidelines. The course then focuses on in-depth understanding and application of the 3-D Principles of Correction using the Rigo Method, based upon the original principles of Schroth. The goals of treatment are to facilitate corrections of the altered posture and teach the patient to maintain corrections in daily living in order to minimize progression of spinal deformity and optimize quality of life. Level 1 course teaches “unloaded” exercises for achievable and safe entry-level physical therapist clinical application. The course balances lecture and lab for each exercise position and includes patient demonstration. Additional topics include bracing, home program prescription, and ADL education. Students will complete a written examination at the end of the course.
Cost: $2,800
CEUs: 40 Contact Hours
Date: March 17-22, 2024, 9:00am-5:00pm EST
Location: Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy, 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016
The Autism Project: Autism Thinking
Description:“Autism Thinking” is designed to inform participants of the neurodevelopmental characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Topics include: Executive Functioning, Context Blindness, Theory of Mind, Central Coherence, Joint Attention, and One-Channel Processing. An understanding of these characteristics and challenges arms participants with the knowledge required to support individuals with ASD in their daily lives (in the classroom, in the home, or in the community).This presentation ends with a discussion of the methods used to support individuals with ASD. These practical tools and strategies will help participants be proactive and confident in their efforts to support individuals with autism in a variety of settings.
Cost: $30
CEUs: 2 Contact Hours
Date: March 22, 2024, 9:00am-11:00am EST
Location: Live-Virtual
April
World of Hurt: A Guide to Classifying and Treating Pain
Description:This two-day live interactive webinar introduces information critical to the assessment and treatment of patients with acute, sub-acute and chronic pain. Utilizing pain science research regarding pain mechanisms this webinar teaches pain clinicians how to classify and treat pain as it relates to the peripheral and central nervous system. A Pain Mechanism Classification System (PMCS) will be introduced and then guide selection of patient education and active care interventions for each pain mechanism. The PMCS demonstrated through video and paper case studies will aid application to pain clinicians’ practice. This webinar highlights a subgrouping framework, PMCS, which addresses pain throughout the continuum from acute, subacute and chronic stages covering chemical, structural, mechanical, cognitive, emotional, social, psychological and cortical mechanisms. This webinar integrates pain science research into a biopsychosocial approach with practical application for patient education and active care interventions. Promoting a common language between pain clinicians of all disciplines and patients. Included in this webinar, the brief application of peripheral nervous system neurodynamic evaluation, treatment, and central nervous system sensory and motor evaluation, patient rated outcome measures and psychometric tools outlined by dominant pain mechanism. The PMCS patient education and active care interventions support all patient ages and musculoskeletal to neurological diagnoses suffering from pain.
Cost: $399
CEUs: 14.5 Contact Hours
Date: April 13-14, 2024, 8:00am-5:00pm EST
Location: Live-Virtual
May
Ivy Education: Torticollis and Plagiocephaly: Intervention and Treatment
Description: This evidence-based course focuses on comprehensive screening, evaluation, assessment, treatment of Torticollis and Plagiocephaly. The course will include strategies for prevention, education, and differential diagnoses of infants, toddlers, and children. Lab will include live demonstrations and hands-on practice with a variety of ages.
Cost: $350
CEUs: Pending
Date: May 4-5, 2024, 8:00am-5:00pm EST
Location: Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy, 475 Allendale Road, Suite 205, King of Prussia, PA
World of Hurt: “Food”- A Non-Pharmacy Intervention for Pain
Description:This one-day course will fine tune clinical reasoning for the selection of foods as a non-pharmacy intervention for pain, chronic illness and disease. If you have ever suspected that not everyone should eat the same thing or do the same exercise, you are right! In fact, what food we absorb well and how our bodies handle stress differs in phases of healing and wellness. Your stage of inflammation, recovery and wellness reflect your internal chemistry. It is the key that unlocks the mysteries of disease, pain, longevity, fitness, emotional strength, and how we heal. The food you eat determines your susceptibility to illness and prevents the most troubling health diseases. Foods are the most frequently introduced chemicals to the body and considered an intervention for pain and disease. The chemical reactions brought into the body through foods can be positive or negative. In conjunction with the healthy state of the liver and gut, they can alter the response to treatment for pain and chronic illness. Recent ongoing literature suggests a non-pharmacy intervention for pain and disease, in the area of healthy eating including a whole food plant-based diet. The function of the liver, the microbiome of the gut, and the integrity of the gut lining play an integral role in inflammation. Whole food plant-based eating offers an individualized lifestyle health plan that is right for your patients. Gentle detox and balancing protocols for the liver, adrenal glands, gut, and thyroid can reactivate an immune system causing remission to many autoimmune and neurological diseases. The inflammatory mechanism may have a chemical component systemically in the tissues, such as, cytokines, lipopolysaccharides, chronic infection or histamine, etc. The patient’s inflammatory symptoms can reflect the immune system’s stress and inability to heal the body. A person with an autoimmune condition will have more pre-existing inflammatory molecules present in the body compared to a person without. Therefore, an intervention focused on foods can alter the rate of healing and the overall outcome. The “Root Cause” to the inflammatory cascade and immune system stress response identified within the foods people select can be the missing link to sustained benefits from pain and remission for chronic illness. The World of Hurt “Foods” course will introduce an eclectic scientific based framework involving the four blood types O, A, B, and AB, ketogenic diets, and whole food plant-based eating to individualize food selection for healthy immune systems. In addition, fundamental protocols for the liver, adrenal glands, thyroid and gut to promote a healthy immune system will be discussed. Each person can greatly benefit from its own exercise regimen, meal plans, and vitamin supplements, that can be identified within this simplistic framework.
Cost: $250
CEUs: 7 Contact Hours
Date: May 18, 2024, 9:00am-5:00pm EST
Location: Live-Virtual
June
Know to Change: Idiopathic Toe Walking
Description: Coming Soon
Cost: $369
CEUs: 12 Contact Hours
Date: June 6-7, 2024, 10:00am-4:30pm EST
Location: Live-Virtual
Know to Change: In Depth Clinical Applications Using an Etiological Approach
Description: Coming Soon
Cost: $50
CEUs: Pending
Date: June 8, 2024, 10:00am-4:30pm EST
Location: Live-Virtual
Ivy Education: Comprehensive Evaluation and Treatment of Toe Walking – With Lower Extremity Serial Casting
Description: This course is for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who treat children with idiopathic toe walking, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, or other medical or non-medical reasons for toe walking. This course begins with typical gait development from infancy to adolescence, enabling you to recognize gait deviations from an early age. Using an evidence-based approach, differential diagnosis and treatment plans will be discussed based on evaluation and examination findings. Conservative, evidence-based treatment strategies will be presented to effectively and efficiently remediate deficits in range of motion, strength, gait, and balance.
Cost: $475
CEUs: Pending
Date: June 22-23, 2024, 10:00am-4:30pm EST
Location: ABC Pediatrics/Ivy Rehab for Kids- 7591 Tylers Place Blvd, West Chester Township, OH 45069
July
The Autism Project: Visual Supports in Practice
Description: This training provides an understanding on how to create and use visuals to better support individuals with autism and related developmental disabilities (DD) by increasing independence, promoting communication, and reducing challenging behaviors in the classroom and at home. Participants will learn how to teach, “wait”, “help” and how to ask for a “break” using visual supports. They will also learn about Social Narratives and other strategies used to explain a given situation and provide strategies to navigate it. Lastly, we will learn about how to use a countdown timer for successful transitions. .
Cost: $30
CEU’s: 2 Contact Hours
Date: July 12, 2024, 9:00am-11:00am EST
Location: Live-Virtual
August
The Autism Project: Supporting Self-Regulation
Description: Challenging behaviors impact classroom learning, time in the community, and the family dynamic. The goal of this training is to provide basic information about a variety of positive behavior supports that can be used to teach key skills to students with autism. This training provides participants with information and tools to help parents and professionals view challenging behavior through a different lens. Discussion related to skill deficits, coexisting conditions, and possible motivation of behaviors will help professionals and parents create positive behavior supports to help build healthier interactions and a successful environment.
Cost: $30
CEU’s: 2 Contact Hours or .2 CEUs
Date: August 23, 2024
Location: Live-Virtual
Ivy Education: Rehabilitation for the Breast Cancer Patient: Focus on Manual and Therapeutic Exercise Skills
Description:This 2-part course instructs participants in the clinical skills sets and techniques needed to effectively deliver comprehensive care to breast cancer patients in any phase of their cancer treatment and beyond.Prior to the live workshop, participants will learn essential elements of diagnosis, course of oncology care, and sequelae of treatment in part I of the course. Manual skills, patient education and case studies will be the focus of part II (live session), integrating strategies of myofascial trigger point release, joint mobilization, neural gliding fundamentals of lymphatic manual drainage, therapeutic pain science and functional restoration.
Cost: $250
CEU’s: 10 Contact Hours
Date: August 24-25, 2024
Location: Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy- 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016
September
Ivy Education: ACL Injuries, Rehab, and Return to Sports Considerations
Description: Despite significant surgical advancements in and effort paid to ACL-injured patients, rates of secondary ACL injury remain very high in athletic patient populations. This course is a comprehensive summary of the current state of ACL injures and post-ACLR care. Primary focus of the course is to consider how ACL anatomy, healing after ACLR, assessment of physical strength and function, and known injury mechanisms and correlates can be utilized in order to make the best determination of readiness to return to sport after ACLR. This course is appropriate for PTs, PTAs, PAs, and ATCs, who manage care and advise on activity clearance for these patients after surgery. Through the material covered in the course, attendees will have a thorough understanding on managing the post-ACLR athlete through a structured protocol of exercise and training towards criteria-based functional tests in order to minimize risk for secondary ACL injury to either knee.
Cost: $450
CEU’s: 7 Contact Hours
Date: September 21, 2024
Location: Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy- 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016
Ivy Education: Running Analysis and Treatment
Description: This interactive, evidence-based course, will teach attendees how to analyze and coach proper running mechanics. Techniques will be based on Pose Methods© running principles for treatment, and the most recent research on running mechanics’ role in injury prevention. This course will be a combination of lecture, lab, demonstration, and practice of performing video analysis. Attendees will come expecting to engage in light jogging and drill activities and should wear athletic shoes and apparel to that regard. This course is appropriate for clinicians that are interested in assessing and analyzing root cause for running injuries and learning how to coach and teach a patient how to run with less joint force and muscle strain, as a means of effectively treating runner injuries while reducing recurrence of injury.
Cost: $450
CEU’s: 7 Contact Hours
Date: September 22, 2024
Location: Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy- 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016
BSPTS North America: Level 1
Description: The L1 Course builds upon the Base Course information about anatomy, etiology, clinical and radiological examination, curve classification, and treatment guidelines. The course then focuses on in-depth understanding and application of the 3-D Principles of Correction using the Rigo Method, based upon the original principles of Schroth. The goals of treatment are to facilitate corrections of the altered posture and teach the patient to maintain corrections in daily living in order to minimize progression of spinal deformity and optimize quality of life. Level 1 course teaches “unloaded” exercises for achievable and safe entry-level physical therapist clinical application. The course balances lecture and lab for each exercise position and includes patient demonstration. Additional topics include bracing, home program prescription, and ADL education. Students will complete a written examination at the end of the course.
Cost: $2,800
CEUs: 40 Contact Hours
Date: September 29-October 4, 2024, 9:00am-5:00pm EST
Location: Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy, 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016
October
Ivy Education: Wound Care Fundamentals: Essential Skills for Therapists
Description: “Wound Care Fundamentals for Therapists” is a 6-hour live, interactive course focused on the essential elements of wound care for the rehabilitation therapist. Topics include:the normal healing process; how to optimize a health wound bed; barriers to healing chronic wounds; and care algorithms for common scenarios. Management of exudate, choosing varying types of debridement procedures, and critical thinking for dressing types are covered, along with decision process for use of compression to aid in healing. Patient education topics include nutrition, hydration, prevention of infection, facilitation of healing, and home dressing changes. Therapists will also receive guidance in the creation of an “Essential Wound Care” kit for the clinic, focusing on the use of 10 basic types of dressings.
Cost:
CEU’s: 6 Contact Hours
Date: October 7, 2024
Location: Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy- 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016
World of Hurt: Central Nervous System Pain Mechanisms
Description:This two-day course focuses information critical to the assessment and treatment of patients dominated by Central Nervous System (CNS) Pain Mechanisms. The course will aid the sub grouping of CNS mechanisms into Central Sensitivity, Affective and Motor / Autonomic mechanisms. Incorporating the scientific literature and strategies for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) approaches promoting when best utilized for each pain sub group. This course will present specific patient motivational pain science education approaches, specific functional exercise prescriptions and CNS sensorimotor retraining. Outlining Chapter Six, Seven & Eight of “A World of Hurt: A Guide to Classifying Pain”, pain clinicians will learn how to assess and classify CNS pain mechanisms including, Central Sensitivity, Affective and Motor / Autonomic utilizing psychometric measures, outcome measures, CNS sensory and motor evaluations. This course will focus on specific interventions of pain science patient education topics; patient readiness questionnaire, motivational interviewing strategies, graded exposure functional return and sensorimotor retraining for each CNS dominated pain mechanism. Video, paper cases and live patient demonstrations (when available) will aid application to each clinician’s practice by understanding the importance of the “words” and “moves” necessary to reverse CNS pain mechanisms.
Cost: $399
CEU’s: 14.5 Contact Hours
Date: October 12-13, 2024
Location: Live-Virtual