Strategies to Perfect Upper Body Rehab Outcomes with Aquatic Therapy
Streaming live from the HydroWorx pool!
October 29, 2014 from 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Presented By: Barry Lippman, MS, ATC, NASM-PES, Associate Athletic Trainer/Rehab Coordinator for Coastal Carolina University
This webcast will provide specific strategies in developing advanced shoulder rehab programs emphasizing the use of aquatic therapy as a medium to implement them. The strategies are developed to safely, efficiently and effectively bridge the challenging gap between rehabilitation and performance.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
- A systematic approach to upper body training in the pool
- A progression and regression for late term upper body rehabilitation using water as a medium
- How to use water to work around specific contraindications
- Effective scapular stabilization techniques to prepare athletes for overhead throwing
- How to gain and maintain upper body strength while minimizing residual soreness
This 1 hour webcast will be broadcast live from the HydroWorx pool at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. Want to attend the webcast in person? Live attendees will have the opportunity to try the HydroWorx pool at Coastal Carolina. Make sure you bring your bathing suit and towel!
*Continuing Education (you must attend the live webcast in its entirety):
Athletic Trainers: One CEU available for Athletic Trainers through BOC
All Others: Certificates will be available if you wish to petition your certification agency for CEUs.
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In this webinar participants will receive an introduction to the principles of aquatic therapy, with specific applications for pediatric client populations. There will be additional focus on physical therapy care planning for children including land to water transitions, treatment considerations, and documentation.
Participants will be able take the following away from this presentation:
- The properties of water that are beneficial for pediatric therapy
- What pediatric populations can benefit from aquatic therapy
- What treatment considerations and precautions/contraindications exist for this population
- How and when to transition between water and land therapy
- How to effectively document aquatic therapy
- What equipment can be used to enhance therapy sessions
- How to make sessions fun for kids
All of this information will be supported by case studies from Cindy’s aquatic therapy program at Children’s Hospital of St. Paul.
