The Minnesota Physical Therapy Association is pleased to offer these upcoming Continuing Education Courses:

Ethics in Physical Therapy

This affordable, online, on-demand class fulfills the 2 CEU Ethics requirement and is LIVE! Please visit the State Board of Physical Therapy to check your Continuing Education Reporting Date, and to confirm requirements specific to your license. 

Clinical Management of the Fitness Athlete	Presented in partnership with
Saturday, January 12 8am-5:30pm Sunday, Janurary 3 8am-4:30pm Instructor: Dr. Mitch Babcock CEUs: 16 contact hours

Course Description

This two day course is designed to educate participants on proper technique of the fundamental movements in Fitness Athlete programming. Learn coaching, analysis, and breakdowns of the squat, deadlift, push, pull, and basic olympic lifts. Through the use of multiple models the instructors will cover each movement beginning with proper performance and then highlighting commonly seen mistakes.

 

Students will learn how to correct these common mistakes through coaching, and as needed through breaking down the movement to identify relevant physical impairments and addressing these through targeted mobility and stability exercises.
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Pain, PT and the Opioid Epidemic

This course is available online and on-demand.
CEUs: 6 contact hours

Course Description

International Spine and Pain Institute (ISPI) in partnership with Evidence In Motion (EIM), has designed a unique learning opportunity for PT’s and PTA’s to advance top of mind awareness to Choose PT first.

Pain is complex. New paradigms of pain such as neuromatrix, nerve sensitivity, endocrine and immune responses to pain and neuroplasticity have opened various exciting non-pharmacological options in the treatment of pain. One such approach is altering what patients think and believe about their pain. It is well established that patients often have faulty beliefs regarding pain, which consequently may increase fear, catastrophization, pain and disability. The paradox is that patients are interested in pain as well as how pain works. Growing evidence supports that teaching patients more about the neurophysiology and biology of pain allows for decreased pain, increased movement and function, various decreased psychometric measurements and higher compliance with therapy. This online  self-paced, self-study series of lectures, based on the latest neuroscience view of pain, aims to help health care providers update their knowledge of pain and apply is clinically today.
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