ETIOLOGY OF ARTHRITIS, HISTORY OF JOINT ARTHROPLASTY, & COST OF CARE ACROSS THE HEALTHCARE SPECTRUM
- Anatomy review: capsular changes, cartilage wear, and joint breakdown
- Origins of joint arthroplasty and components used
- Surgical approaches and rehabilitation implications of yesterday
- Payment changes for facilities, surgeons, and rehabilitation
- Impact of “prehabilitation” and how you can be involved
- Methods to reduce overall cost to your system with the rise in volume of surgeries
TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY
- Component options, surgical approach, and rehab implications
- Revision surgeries
- Same-day surgery options, simultaneous bilateral surgery, and implications
- Impact of decline in sub-acute rehabilitation stays for patients
- Staging of rehabilitation: what to work on, when, and why
- NMES, CPM, manual therapy, and the latest research
- Hands-on lab/video using manual therapy and the right exercises at the right time
TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY
- Component options, surgical approach and rehabilitation implications, and the latest research
- “Total Hip Precautions” for today
- Staging of rehabilitation: what to work on, when, and why
- Why these patients may need less rehabilitation
- Hands-on lab/video using manual therapy and the right exercises at the right time
- Gait stability and training
- Simultaneous bilateral and revision surgeries
TOTAL SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY
- Standard or reverse: what, why, and what does it mean to you
- Surgical approach, tissue affected, rehabilitation implications, and the latest research
- Staging of rehabilitation: what to work on, when, and why
- Patient function expectations: what the prosthesis can and cannot do
- Hands-on lab/video using manual therapy and the right exercises at the right time
TOTAL ANKLE ARTHROPLASTY & FIRST MTP ARTHROPLASTY
- Overview of surgery today and tomorrow
- Rehabilitation implications
- Challenges and advances in prosthesis design
- Optimizing gait
- Patient function expectations: what the prosthesis can and cannot do
CASE STUDY, EXERCISES, VIDEO, DISCUSSION
- Walk through real patient cases across each stage of rehab
- Video, demonstration, and practice of exercises based on stage of rehab and EMG muscle study
- Q&A about the patients you see