Continuing Education Opportunities  - Provision of this information is a service to CT OT practitioners does not imply endorsement of content or approval of CE credits by ConnOTA.

August 2010

How Low Vision impacts Learning Daily Living Skills and Cortical Blindness in Pediatrics
ConnOTA SIS Opportunity - Hosted by Connecticut Children's Medical Center
FREE for ConnOTA members and $10.00 for non-members
Date: Tuesday, August 24th
Time: 7:00 -9:00 pm
Location: Connecticut Children's Medical Center Glastonbury Site 310 Western Blve, Glastonbury, CT
If interested in attending, Please contact Paula Dorschied, OTR/L
Via email at Pdorsch@ccmckids.org or 860-545-8040
Please go to ccmckids.org for directions to the Glastonbury office

September 2010

Management of Neuromotor and Musculoskeletal Impairments of the Upper Extremity After a Stroke
Salvador Bondoc, OTD, OTR/L, BCPR, CHT
September 28th, 2010
21 Waterville Road, Avon, CT 06001
860.331.1792
The course is designed to qualify for 7.25 clock hours and 435 instructional minutes.
Info/registration: http://www.allstartherapy.net/494

Course Overview: Among stroke survivors, 55-75% will continue to have impairments in the upper extremity despite intensive rehabilitation (Wolfe, Winstein, Miller, Taub, Uswatte, Morris, et al, 2006). Recent developments in neurorehabilitation has lead to renewed optimism for stroke survivors with chronic upper extremity impairments. What has become known as constraint-induced therapy (CIT) or constraint induced movement therapy (CIMT) has altered the landscape of neurorehabilitation.
This program will provide an overview of the nature and process of implementing a CIMT protocol, examples of how it can be modified to suit standard clinical practices. In addition, this program will present intervention strategies that could address musculoskeletal impairments so that forced use intervention becomes more feasible for clients who would otherwise not qualify in a standard CIMT protocol.

October 2010

Geriatric Pharmacology: The Impact of Drugs on Rehbilitation and Function in the Elderly
Jennifer M. Bottomley, PT, PhD, MS
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
Sacred Heart University
Physical Therapy Department
7 Cambridge Drive, Trumbull, CT 06611
Phone: 203.365.7656
This course qualifies for 7.5 clock hours and 450 instructional minutes.
Info/registration: http://www.allstartherapy.net/494

Course Overview: This one day seminar focuses on physiologic and neuroendocrine changes specific to the elderly that influence their response to drugs - impacting function and leading to the possibility of drug-induced frailty in the elderly. Older adults are prescribed more drugs than any other age group in the population. Many medications have significant side effects that adversely impact functional and rehabilitation goals. Other drugs may actually enhance function and have beneficial effects acting to facilitate ease of movement, promote endurance or improve cognition and/or alertness. These pharmacological interventions will be reviewed from a systems-based perspective.
This course addresses the alterations in drug pharmacodynamics and the clinical relevance in the elderly. The effect of drug actions on the major body systems, including mechanisms of therapeutic and adverse effects, problems of drug interaction, and variables that modify their effects will be discussed. The focus will be on the drugs and drug regimes that are commonly used to treat cardiovascular, neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, cognitive, and other pathological conditions that affect the elderly. The effects that specific drugs have on function and on rehabilitation interventions will be discussed. The problems associated with nutrition and drug use will also be covered including dehydration. Drug misuse and abuse in the elderly will also be presented. Patient case studies will be introduced to provide examples of drug response and drug interactions with other drugs, nutrients, and metabolism that determine how pharmaceutical therapies can impact an older patient's responses to physical and functional interventions in rehabilitation.

November 2010

Introduction to the Examination and Treatment of the Lumbar Spine
Professor Russell Woodman, MS, DPT, FSOM, OCS, MCTA
November 13th, 2010
Apple Rehab Laurel Woods
451 North High St.
East Haven, CT 06512
Phone:
203.466.6850
The course is designed to qualify for 6 clock hours and 360 instructional minutes.
Info/registration: http://www.allstartherapy.net/494

Course Overview: This course will integrate the teachings at the lumbar spine of James Cyriax, Robin McKenzie and Brian Mulligan. Upon completion of the course the participant shall be able to perform the lumbar spine examination, teach a patient corrective exercise for mechanical derangement and know those clusters of signs and symptoms consistent with various lumbar musculoskeletal conditions.

2011

Postponed to 2011- date will be posted here. The Memorial Christine E. Busher Occupational Therapy Award Fundraiser Workshop
Applying Sensory Integration Principles Across the Lifespan
presented by Susanne Smith Roley M.S., OTR/L, FAOTA