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New Advanced NDT and SI CEU course for therapists

We are thrilled to introduce our new CEU course for OT’s and PT’s:

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Advanced Course:Combining NDT and SI for Optimal Function in Children with Neuro Motor Challenges
with renowned speaker: LEZLIE ADLER

This course is designed for experienced clinicians who want to maximize their assessment, treatment planning, and intervention skills to achieve more efficient and effective outcomes when working with children with neurological challenges confounded by sensory processing, orthopedic and often behavior issues. This lab intensive course will focus on integrating handling skills along with using the most up to date evidence to guide clinical decisions and treatment.

We are offering this course in many locations this year:

July 20-21, 2013 – Denver, CO
August 9-10, 2013 – Johnston, IA
August 22-23, 2013 – Dallas, TX
December 6-7, 2013 – Ft Lauderdale Area, FL

Click here to register for this course today!

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Discount for CEU courses

SPRING PROMOTION
from
EDUCATION RESOURCES

receive a $50 discount toward any conference fee

Apply code: Spring2013

Not to be used in combination with other discounts or course credits.
Non-Transferable. Only one discount may be used per conference.
Must be applied at time of registration, not for conferences previously registered for.

If you have any questions or would like to register,

please call, email or visit our website.

Thank you

Mandy

Please click here for our full listing of courses

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Treatment Suggestions for a Morton’s Neuroma Anyone?

Jane posts:

DEAR ERI COMMUNITY: I just evaluated a patient with a Morton’s neuroma between the third and fourth metatarsal. He is an active runner and tennis player who has been limited in participating in the sports he loves. He has had two cortisone injections to no avail and has undergone weekly acupuncture for the past 8 weeks. He is showing improvement with the acupuncture but it is not significant or fast enough for him. At last, he is trying PT. Has anyone had success with a particular technique, a particular orthotic or modality?

Thank you for any help, Jane

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Discounted Early Bird Rate for Therapies in the School

Fourteenth Annual

THERAPIES IN THE SCHOOL
November 21-22, 2013 – Framingham, MA

We are pleased to share with you the outline for our Popular annual conference:
And we would like to offer you our Early Bird Registration Rate of $395

Mention “Therapies Early Bird” when you register
Reduced rate is for a two day registration. Must register before July 1, 2013 .Cannot be used with Purchase Orders. Must be used at time of registration. Cannot be combined with any other offers. Limited Time offer.

Join us at this year’s highly acclaimed conference which will enable you to provide effective evidence-based strategies that foster increased academic performance, social participation and inclusion for all children with special needs including those with severe involvement.

Learn to judiciously select assistive technology, appropriate assessment tools,

sensory-based strategies, movement-based strategies and environmental/technology adaptations to facilitate student access and participation in school programming.

Learn best practices for successful collaboration, creative solutions to workload management and new opportunities for the emerging role of therapists in addressing wellness in school settings.

Please Click here for an outline of the conference Please click here to Register

We look forward to seeing you at this year’s conference!

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Is Stretching Counter-Productive to Strengthening or Strength Production?

Therapists, we are seeking your input. Do you stretch your patients prior to strengthening? Do you find it hampers strength output?

A recent article which was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports adds credence to growing scientific consensus that pre-exercise stretching is generally unnecessary and possibly counterproductive.

What are your thoughts about this? Will it change how you treat your patients? Are there certain types of patients that still need stretching prior to strengthening? Do you work more with dynamic stretching? How does this fit in with patients exhibiting muscular imbalance (which was not addressed in these articles)?

A separate meta-study, which retrospectively looked at 104 past studies, claims that static stretching of 90 seconds or more prior to weight lifting reduces strength in those stretched muscles by somewhere between 2-5.5%.

Just why stretching hampers performance is not fully understood, although the authors of both of these studies write that they suspect the problem is in part that stretching does “loosens muscles and their accompanying tendons,” so they are less able to store energy and spring into action.

While this definitely affects athletes who really want to produce explosive muscular performance, for example, trying to sprint out of a starting block, or slam down on a tennis serve, it is unclear whether or not the same is true for our patients who are working on strengthening after an injury or surgery. It is noteworthy that they did not measure the strength of the muscle in the mid-range of the movement, when the muscle would be in a more shortened position.

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New Advanced NDT and SI CEU course for therapists

Discount for CEU courses

Treatment Suggestions for a Morton’s Neuroma Anyone?

Discounted Early Bird Rate for Therapies in the School

Is Stretching Counter-Productive to Strengthening or Strength Production?

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