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