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  
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