Satuday General Session Details
Each day will begin with a General Session before our concurrent Breakout Sessions begin. The topics shown below will all be addressed during Saturday's General Session.
Saturday, April 6, 2019:
7:45 AM - 10:30 AM
General Session Titles:
- Performance Enhancement Using Blood Flow Restriction Training: From Athletes to Older Adults with Sarcopenia
- Speaker: Johnny Owens, MPT
- Key topics addressed:
- History of Blood Flow Restriction
- Review of BFR Mechanisms
- Results of BFR in ACL, Sarcopenia, Total Knee and Total Hip Where is it going?
- Review of Clinical Safety Considerations and Contraindications
- Tourniquet Fitting and Application on the Limb
- Determining LOP and Personalized Tourniquet Pressures (PTP)
- Exercise Prescription, Load and Volume Considerations
- Hypoxia without Exercise: Ischemic Pre-conditioning (IPC) and Cell Swelling
- Case Studies and Clinical Progression
- Challenges, Clinical Reasoning, and Innovations in Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Speaker: Michael Bade, PT, DPT, PhD, OCS, FAAOMPT
- Key topics addressed:
- Current challenges in total knee arthroplasty rehabilitation with a focus on lack of evidence to support and large practice variability
- Key impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions following TKA
- Key evidence-based strategies for addressing each with a focus on using prognostic tools to aid in clinical decision making
- Identifying and managing the stiff patient
- Dosage and timing considerations with NMES and PRE
- Importance of movement pattern retraining for long term function and secondary prevention of contralateral TKA
- Impact of swelling on recovery and management strategies
- The Older Adult How to Guide for Mobility Assessment and Advanced Clinical Decision Making
- Speaker: Jennifer S. Brach, PT, PhD
- Key topics addressed:
- Epidemiology of mobility problems in aging
- The importance of measuring mobility (why you should measure it)
- Key issues to consider when selecting a measure such as, appropriateness to target population, practicality of administration, and psychometric properties
- Differentiating between self-report and performance-based measures
- Review of key measures and how to choose which one to use for your intended purpose
- Integrating measures of mobility into clinical practice and their use in clinical decision making
- Caveats of wearable technology to assess physical activity (what not to wear!)
- Task-oriented motor learning approach to walking: from athletes to older adults the aim is expert movers
- Speaker: Jessie VanSwearingen, PhD, PT, FAPTA
- Key topics addressed:
- • Walking problems of older adults - a loss of expertise in the motor skill of walking
- Walking is a well-learned behavior highlighted by efficiency and automaticity
- The neural control of walking is fundamental to the integration of stepping with postures and phases of gait for smooth translation overground
- Age-related timing issues disrupt the coordination of walking with the intended behavior – a loss of the motor skill of walking