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Water-Based Interventions for the Musculoskeletal Client: An Aquatic Therapy Polyclinic

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Your facility
Dates:
Your choice
Instructor:
PT
Credits:
16.0 hrs
Course:
MS701 (Beginner)
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$4,800.00
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ABOUT THIS 2-DAY POLYCLINIC

This 2-day in-service is designed to rapidly introduce your staff to basic treatment ideas for the musculoskeletal patient. It will provide an overview of treatments pertinent to pediatric, adult and geriatric practices. Includes a “sampler lab” of the most clinically useful elements of popular aquatic specialty techniques and research findings which support aquatic therapy. Provides an introduction to the following techniques: Watsu®, the Bad Ragaz Ring Method, Ai Chi, Task Type Training Approach, the Aquatic Berg (for balance), Aquatic Sensory Integration (ASI) and drills loosely based on the Halliwick Method.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Describe why aquatic therapy may be the treatment of choice if (a) the patient is difficult to support or handle, (b) the patient is in pain, or (c) if the therapist cannot adequately access the patient’s body on land, (d) the patient has LE swelling (lecture).
  2. Recite 3-4 aquatic precautions and contraindications specific to the musculoskeletal patient (lecture).
  3. Locate what payers (including Medicare) have to say about aquatic therapy for the musculoskeletal patient (lecture).
  4. Make a 3 minute verbal “case” for providing aquatic therapy services for a patient with a specific musculoskeletal condition. Be able to identify and locate supportive research to bolster case (lecture).
  5. Progress a specific aquatic task from a lower level of function towards increased independence (lab)
  6. Perform 3-4 aquatic therapeutic movements, tasks, or exercises designed to:
    • increase strength
    • improve ROM
    • decrease pain and muscle spasm
    • improve trunk stability
    • improve posture, weight-bearing, balance, gait and proprioception
    • improve functional skills (lab)
    7. Demonstrate 1-2 aquatic tasks or activities from each of the following specialty techniques (as each relates to the musculoskeletal client):
    • Aquatic adaptations of the Berg
    • Aquatic Blanket Drills (ABDs)
    • Aquatic manual therapy and stretching
    • Aquatic yoga
    • Bad Ragaz Ring Method
    • Functional skills training
    • Progressive resistive exercise
    • Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF)
    • Trunk stabilization
    • Watsu (lab)

    8. Working with a partner, design and implement a 15-minute aquatic treatment plan (including equipment selection) for 1-2 of the following:

      • s/p fracture, internal trauma, sprain, strain or dislocation
      • s/p joint replacement (e.g. TKR)
      • s/p tendon or ligament repair (e.g. ACL)
      • arthritis
      • chronic pain syndromes (e.g. fibromyalgia)
      • back and neck dysfunction (lab)

Typical Schedule
Though our classes are designed to fit your schedule, lectures will preceed pool labs. If you opt for the DVD lecture, the remaining seven hours of pool lab would be held on a single day at your facility. These labs could be contiguous or broken up into morning, noon and evening sessions to minimize your pool down-time.

Day 1
8:30-12:00 Lecture
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:40 Pool lab
3:40-4:00 Energy break
4:00-5:45 Pool lab

Day 2
8:30-12:00 Lecture
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:40 Pool lab
3:40-4:00 Energy break
4:00-5:45 Pool lab
5:45-6:00 Wrap-up and questions

Overall:
Name:
Sara Firman, LMT
Date:
12/20/2010
Review:
I've chosen a 'alternative' path in my own aquatic training, so I admit that the idea of joining a class of PTs and PTAs for 18 intense hours of an 'Aquatic Therapy Boot Camp' followed by 'Water-based Intervention for the Musculoskeletal Client' had a rather dry ring to it. Not so!

Picture a group of swimsuit-clad students swirling large white bath blankets through blissfully warm water in dance-like formation. A palm tree, decorated for Christmas, stands on the indoor poolside; while, outside, snow is flying horizontally and settling in deep drifts.

The instructor claps her hands seal fashion across the water's surface and moves us on to the next engaging exercise. This is a training with Aquatic Therapy University (ATU) at their home campus in Minneapolis - a beautifully appointed Senior Center where the pool is obviously a valued asset.

The most inspiring teachers embody passion for their work along with a desire to share that: Andrea Salzman, founder of ATU, is one such. She's as sparkling and energizing as the pools she works in. She impresses on us that movement and creativity are what aquatic therapy is all about.

Back in the classroom, Andrea is going to back that up with solid - not stolid - scientific studies. She'll add a good dose of proactive pragmatism when it comes to working within a healthcare system that has begun to notice aquatic therapy but is equally ready to overlook it.

It's invaluable to review the fundamental principles that apply to all of us who work (or want to work) therapeutically with the hydrodynamic and thermal properties of water. It's also empowering to get updated on current research into the benefits and applications of water immersion.

You'll be exposed to everything you see carefully outlined in the course description and learning objectives, and come away with ring-bound manuals of over 100 pages for each course. Most of all I hope you'll tap into the enthusiasm Andrea and her colleagues impart; and enjoy the water play.

The interventions we learned were all fun, encouraging the full participation of both client and therapist. If you feel frozen in your clinical practice, try Andrea's 'breaking the water' exercise and wake yourself up to what is possible in aquatics. (You have to go on the course to learn that.)
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MARS Rebate

Short for Marketing, Advertising and Registration Service, this add-on is designed to help you preserve valuable resources and defray training costs when you open up your polyclinics to outside therapists. Going "open" allows you to transfer your registration worries to us as we employ our extensive online web presence to find you new attendees. Why? Because each new registrant we bring in earns you a $480 rebate. In other words, if we find 10 outside attendees, you get your class for free!

ATU Inside℠ Staff Certification

Sign up for this value-packed add-on and we will provide you with two ATU Inside℠ window decals and a year's supply of customized marketing brochures for display in your lobby for. We also will mail up to 25 brochures to any referring physicians or clinics in your area to that you specify. Let the world know that your therapists have been trained by the best!

CEU Pre-Approval Service

Don't have the time or staff to fill out the myriad forms required by your state licensing board? Let our continuing-education experts handle all the paperwork headaches. We will apply for CEU pre-approvals and pay any fees required by your state PT and OT and SLP agencies for you so your therapists can concentrate on their clients.

Aquatic Therapy Boot Camp DVD Pre-Study Module

We will send you one DVD of our time-tested Aqautic Therapy Boot Camp, good for 4.0 credit hours. Facilities choose this add-on to allow their staff to prepare in advance without the need for pool downtime. Take this module at your leisure during lunches or take-home sessions. Comes with enough manuals for your entire staff.

While ATU strives to present as small a footprint as possible to our valued customers, there is still a number of responsibilities we ask our facilities to fulfill . Here are some of those tasks:

Minimum Equipment List

A minimum equipment list is to be provided by the host facility. This is the pool equipment needed by the instructor to teach the polyclinic. This is to be either in possession or purchased by the start of class. ATU will provide the facility with the required MEL within 4 weeks of class as well as make a good faith effort to keep this list to the minimum needed for your staff to practice and treat patients with after we leave.

Catering

As host, you are free to administer your polyclinic as you see fit. While some facilities provide lunches and energy breaks to their staff during in-services, others release their staff to get lunch on their own. Either way you decide, please remember to treat all your attendees as you would your own staff. 

Pool Temperature

Water temperature should be kept as close to 91-93 degrees as possible to maximize attention span and minimize hypothermia during our 3-4 hour-long lab sessions. The air temp should also be kept within 10 degrees of the water temp. While we will hold the polyclinic no matter the temperature, you may want to consider holding the class at another pool in your area if your site cannot accommodate this range.

Facilitator

A point-of-contact is needed who is familiar with your facility and able to help coordinate and pre-plan the polyclinic with  ATU staff and instructor. This person will need to provide equipment lists, campus maps, directions, pool layouts and floor diagrams, as needed. Also, the facilitator should be available all days of the polyclinic to help set up the classroom, ready equipment for the labs, meet and orient the instructror, open up the facility and arrange for catering.

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