Functional Rehabilitation Seminars

Philosophy:

Experience the Difference

Functional Rehabilitation is a new clinical paradigm where exercise, joint and soft tissue mobilizations, sensory-motor adaptation strategies, and behavioral interventions are integrated into functional movement patterns that can be efficiently transferred by the patient/client to task specific functions at home, work, or during recreational and sports activities. Functional rehabilitation crosses the age span and specialty practice areas of orthopedics, neurologic, cardiopulmonary and geriatric physical and occupational therapy. The principles can be used for the management of acute and chronic pain syndromes as well as neurologic impairments.

Functional Rehabilitation Seminars are well designed series of intensive hands-on clinical education experiences based upon the following:

1.      an understanding of movement science;

2.      the principles of evidence based practice;

3.      efficient utilization of diagnostic criteria and procedures;

4.      the determination of specific pathological diagnoses and/or movement related disorders; and

5.      the development of phased rehabilitation protocols that are functionally based.

Each rehabilitation protocol presented during a seminar will integrate behavioral interventions, muscle tone reduction strategies, soft tissue and advanced mobilization techniques, self-mobilization procedures, and the principles and techniques for movement re-education and functional training. Patient/client progress will be determined by the use of functional outcome measures.