We plan to provide courses on the following sections covered under the curriculum for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Links to individual courses available on specific topics provided below.
General
- Functional prognosis for a patient’s recovery following a stroke (Already covered) See course by LOREN WARD, PT, DPT here
Gait and balance
- Gait and balance evaluation (Diagnostic approach to gait abnormalities, ddx)
- Strategies for promoting mobility in the inpatient setting
- Physical therapy and exercise prescription for gait disorders
- Therapeutic footwear and simple lower extremity orthotics (Heel Lifts, AFO’s, stabilization)
- Vestibular rehabilitation
MSK
- Spasticity: Evaluation and management
- Cervical radiculopathy
- Torticollis
- Brachial plexus injuries
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Rotator cuff injuries
- Shoulder dislocations
- Shoulder: Adhesive capsulitis and impingement syndromes
- Elbow pain, injuries, and entrapment syndromes
- Wrist and hand
- Degenerative disorders (Rheumatoid arthritis, dupuytren, ganglion cyst, trigger finger)
- Injuries and fractures
- Neuropathy in wrist/hand
- Lumbar disc disorders
- Evaluation of low back pain
- Sciatica
- Compression fractures (evaluation, pain management, prognostic indications
- Hip fracture rehabilitation
- Lower extremity neuropathy (evaluation, treatment, considerations in PAD/diabetic patients)
CNS injury and rehabilitation
- Stroke rehabilitation (Already covered) See course by JEFFREY TERAOKA, MD. here
- Stroke 101 (Already covered) See course by LOREN WARD, PT, DPT here
- Syndromes, emotional sequelae and interventional framework of stroke (Already covered) See course by TIFFANIE SIM WONG, PH.D. here
- Stroke And nursing best practices for acute care RNs (Already covered) See course by AMY L PESCH MSN, RN here
- Neuroanatomy and functional sequelae of stroke (Already covered) See course by NEDA RAYMOND PH.D. here
- Post-concussive syndromes and TBI rehabilitation
- Approaches to rehabilitation with metabolic brain injury (hypoxic, hypoperfusion, metabolic encephalopathy)
- Autonomic and cardiovascular sequelae of brain and spinal cord injuries
- Neurogenic bladder and bowel
- Swallowing disorders (Evaluation, treatment options, prognosis)
- Aphasia (Types of aphasia and planning therapeutic approach)
- Post-stroke seizures and epilepsy
- Stroke and cognition (Memory disorders. executive/integrative functions, attention disorders, perceptual neglect, treatment modalities)
- Recognizing and treating post-stroke behavioral and mood disorders
Critical Care and Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation
- General rehabilitation after ICU stays/critical illness
- Post-extubation pulmonary rehabilitation
- Cardiac rehabilitation (post-MI, improving functional capacity, post-surgical)
- Pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD
