Treating the Reluctant Ambulator: Facilitating the Components of Gait, Part 2

Barbara Hypes, PT 

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DVD Description:

Length of DVD: 63 minutes

This DVD emphasizes working toward independent gait in patients that have severe developmental delays secondary to syndromes and severe mental impairment.  This DVD emphasizes the need to integrate the sensory motor aspects of walking along with the gross motor control.  The therapist encourages these patients to function outside of their fixed patterns of control and move higher against gravity.  The DVD includes therapy sessions on two different patients.  One of the demonstrations is a co-therapy session with OT and PT.  The newest footage covers what each of these children looked like in various therapy sessions at other ages.  It is hoped that this additional footage will further inform the viewer about how to treat children who have these types of motor control.  These DVDs can be valuable tools for all therapists working to facilitate the building blocks of control needed to achieve independent gait in their patients.

Learning Objectives:

The observer will:

1. Learn how to set up the environment to increase demands on the reluctant participant without overwhelming them.
2. Learn how to use adaptive equipment to promote development and therapy goals.
3. Learn how to work with another professional attending to goals for each discipline while challenging the child to integrate their sensory-motor system.
4. Understand the effects of persistent abnormal patterns on a child’s motor system after years of repetition.

Educational Credits:

1 contact hour.  Certificates will be awarded.

Recognized by the NY State Education Department's State Board for Physical Therapy as an approved provider of physical therapy and physical therapy assistant continuing education.   Approved for .1 CEU. 

TSI is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures. Approved by AOTA for .1 CEU.

• $80.00; includes DVD, post-test, and certificate of completion  
• $65.00 when ordering 4 or more DVDs (does not include 2-volume DVD sets)
• Each additional viewer wanting CEUs: $25.00; includes post-test and certificate of completion.

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PLEASE NOTE: Certificates of completion will only be issued upon completion and return of post-test to TSI.

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