Seminar Description: Applicable to all practice settings and specialty areas, this seminar teaches physical therapists advanced clinical methods for assessing pain as an effective method for determining movement impairment diagnoses and recognizing co-morbid medical conditions. The content knowledge and process skills necessary to enhance physical therapists’ labeling of differential classifications of movement impairments and functional limitations as essential to documentation that secures the best reimbursement will also be emphasized. Within the context of a collaborative practice paradigm, advanced patient pain examination, medical screening and evaluation competence will facilitate PTs clinical judgments regarding when to treat, and when to refer. Attendees will learn in depth methods of how to differentiate painful symptoms that result from pathology versus painful symptoms that result from underlying movement impairments that are the cause of the functional limitations physical therapists clinically encounter.

Instructor: Robert DuVall, PT, DHSc, MMSc, ATC, OCS, SCS, FAAOMPT, MTC, PCC, CSCS

Regisration Fee: $445.00

Seminar Description: This seminar integrates innovative business, managerial, administrative and clinical competencies necessary to put direct access into action for your practice. Providing proven strategies to diversify your practice’s reimbursement methods, this seminar will introduce physical therapists to the latest delivery models of practice and provide the underlying rational for recent and pending evolutionary changes effecting physical therapists and reimbursement. Combined with physical therapists’ existing clinical knowledge and skills, advanced differential diagnostic and medical screening competencies will provide an evidenced-based risk management scheme that will ensure safe patient management as well as mechanisms to integrate contemporary evidence into clinical practice so to secure better reimbursement in evolving pay for performance and cash-based paradigms. Advanced evidenced based medical screening for co-morbid medical conditions will be presented as related to current aspects of “best practice”. Acquiring the philosophy of the expanded role as a differential diagnostician and the marketing strategies required to promote and defend the autonomous model of care will be analyzed.

Instructor: Robert DuVall, PT, DHSc, MMSc, ATC, OCS, SCS, FAAOMPT, MTC, PCC, CSCS

Regisration Fee: $445.00

Clinical biomechanics is the science of human movement. Clinical biomechanics explains the relationships and interactions that the various body parts, segments and systems have with each other that contribute to the ability or inability to function. Understanding those relationships and interactions provides a practical framework in order to comprehend the complexity of human function. Function is a combination of complex anatomical and physiological systems that are linked and interwoven with each other. Biomechanically, it is the interaction of the various neuro-musculoskeletal systems within the kinetic chain of the body and the interaction with the environment that dictates human movement. Clinical biomechanics can therefore be fully appreciated as a chain reaction.

This seminar focuses on the basic and clinical sciences within the nervous, musculo-skeletal, cardiovascular and integumentary systems that interact and react together within the body. Clinically examined, the neuromusculoskeletal (NMS) system uniquely reveals dependency upon the other systems to react together and form the functional chain of human biomechanics. Biomechanically understanding the interrelationships of the NMS system requires clinically practical knowledge of the interaction of the NMS system within its environments. Movement-based healthcare practitioners need to understand the science of the inter-system chain reactions that occur within the NMS system in order to optimize all forms of health and functional movement.

Instructor: Robert DuVall, PT, DHSc, MMSc, ATC, OCS, SCS, FAAOMPT, MTC, PCC, CSCS

Duration: 12 contact hours

Regisration Fee: $445.00