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IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PENNSYLVANIA LICENSED PHYSICAL THERAPISTS

Pennsylvania State Board of Physical Therapy Direct Access Certificates will expire on the same date as the PT license (e.g. 12/31/2008 or 12/31/2010). The certificate and PT license will be renewed separately, however the certificate will not be renewed unless the PT license of the certificate holder is concurrently renewed. As a condition of certificate renewal, a physical therapist shall have completed during the preceding biennium, a minimum of 20 contact (instructional) hours of physical therapy CONTINUING EDUCATION (CE) related to keeping the certificate holder apprised of advancements and new developments in the practice of the physical therapy profession. At least 10 of the 20 hours shall be in evaluative procedures to treat a person without a referral.

 

Completed both seminars? Take the online credentialing exam here.

Physical therapists who successfuly complete both seminars and pass our online credentialing exam will receive a SMA Division of Continuing Education diploma verifying "Advanced Direct Access Credentialed" (DAC)

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

This seminar has been approved by the NATA BOC and the MD, DL, WV, OH, NJ, and PA STATE BOARDS OF PHYSICAL THERAPY for 12 hours credit. This seminar meets the PA requirements for 2009-2010 "Direct Access Certificate of Authorization" certification/re-certification.

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Direct Access In Action

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

Are we practicing as physical therapist diagnosticians?

This seminar has been approved by the NATA BOC and the MD, DL, WV, OH, NJ, and PA STATE BOARDS OF PHYSICAL THERAPY for 12 hours credit. This seminar meets the PA requirements for 2009-2010 "Direct Access Certificate of Authorization" certification/re-certification.

nata boc approved provider

 
     
  Clinical Biomechanics and Manual Therapy for All Practice Environments      
  Seminar Description:

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

     
 

This seminar has been approved by the NATA BOC and the MD, DL, WV, OH, NJ, and PA STATE BOARDS OF PHYSICAL THERAPY for 12 hours credit. This seminar meets the PA requirements for 2009-2010 "Direct Access Certificate of Authorization" certification/re-certification.

nata boc approved provider

     
 
     
  Professionalism - The Doctoring Profession      
 
Seminar Description: Applicable to all practice settings, this seminar's attendees will discuss physical therapist professionalism, their roles and responsibilities in the latest delivery models of practice. This seminar will provide the underlying rationale for recent and pending evolutionary changes effecting physical therapy practice. This seminar will also expound upon the most essential responsibilities of physical therapists - Differential Diagnosis and the recognition of co-morbid medical conditions. The APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice will be applied to real world clinical practice and direct access case scenarios as related to current aspects of evidence-based and "best practice" algorithms. The necessary philosophy for physical therapists' expanded role as diagnosticians and the marketing strategies required to promote and advocate for the autonomous model of care will be presented.

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

Regisration Fee: Negotiable

 

     

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