Friday General Session Details
Each day began with a General Session before our concurrent Breakout Sessions begin. The topics shown below will all be addressed during Friday's General Session.
Friday, April 5, 2019:
7:45 AM - 10:30 AM
General Session Titles:
- Role of the Physical Therapist in Targeting Risk of ACL Injury
- Speaker: Kevin R. Ford, PhD, FACSM
- Key topics addressed:
- Primary ACL Injury Risk in young athletes
- Stages of growth, development and maturation and influence on ACL injury
- Movement Assessment and Screening Risk
- Application of assessment in varied settings: clinic, field, sport specific venues
- Hands on Screening and movement assessment training • Guidance on the interpretation of data collected for implementation in a training program • Rehabilitation progressions for movement pattern retraining
- Population Specific ACL Injury Prevention and Dosing
- Speaker: Jeffrey Taylor PT, PhD, DPT, OCS, SCS, CSCS
- Key topics addressed:
- Primary Prevention Research
- Components of successful primary prevention program
- Effectiveness of prevention and influencing factors
- Facilitating field based primary prevention
- How to incorporate sports specific principles to primary prevention
- Age appropriate primary prevention
- Wearable technology and dosing in prevention and rehabilitation
- From the Clinic to the Field: Maximizing Functional Recovery after ACL Reconstruction
- Speaker: Laura C Schmitt PT, MPT, PhD
- Key topics addressed:
- Return to play and physical activity outcomes after ACL reconstruction
- The impact of early and persistent deficits on functional recovery
- The role of psychosocial factors on functional recovery and outcome
- Objective-based decision-making for plan of care progression including strength, patient-reported, performance-based, and quality of movement testing
- Primary domains of return to play/discharge decision-making
- Rehabilitation considerations throughout the plan of care to maximize functional recovery
- ACL injury begins with “A” and ends with “OA:” potential to change the outcome begins with you
- Speaker: Laura C Schmitt PT, MPT, PhD
- Key topics addressed:
- Long-term outcomes after ACL reconstruction
- Role of imaging in understanding cartilage changes
- Systemic and local factors involved in the development of post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis
- Early, modifiable factors involved in cartilage degeneration after ACL reconstruction, including associations with strength and altered movement
- Prevention of 2nd ACL injury in your current rehabilitation episode of care: Are we doing enough?
- Speaker: Mark V. Paterno PT, PhD, MBA, SCS, ATC
- Key topics addressed:
- The mechanism and predictors of 2nd ACL injury
- The role of a national registry to identify risk
- Options for prevention of 2nd ACL injury
- Early and End Stage rehabilitation specific considerations for treatment design and implementation
- The role of foundational deficits such as quadriceps recovery and functional training with matched treatment recommendations in early phase rehabilitation to avoid these pitfalls
- Advanced technique training progressions and care plan recommendations for end stage rehabilitation after ACL injury
- Enhancing functional performance with movement symmetry evaluation and matched treatment progressions