Description
Course Details
Instructors
Dr. Karen Pryor, Ph.D., PT, DPT, ND, CH, CFPS
International Speaker
Mica Foster, DC
Date
Thursday, May 27, 2021
8:45AM-3:15PM EST
Format
- Webinar
6 contact hours
0.6 AOTA CEUs, 7.5 NBCOT PDUs, 7.2 NY PT CEUs
Cost
Special $179
Target Audience
OTs, OTAs, PTs, PTAs
Are your pediatric patients uncooperative or seem difficult to treat? They may be experiencing underlying pain that impairs their ability to assimilate stimulation and information properly. This course will provide practitioners with a deeper understanding of methods in recognizing, evaluating and treating their pediatric patient population. Attendees will be able to illustrate the somatosensory neurological networks, sensory fiber types and differentiate types of pain. Clinicians will learn about the pediatric pain experience and how pain information is received, processed, recorded and replayed. This course will provide techniques to treat acute injuries, chronic pain, birth trauma, tremors, high/low tone and pre-/postoperative pediatric patients. Clinicians will learn evidence-based manual therapy and neuroplasticity techniques to restore healthy neural network connections and achieve better outcomes for their patients. Case studies will demonstrate how to employ some these methods. The techniques employed in this course instruct therapists to treat the source of the challenges and promote more rapid recovery.
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About the Instructor
Karen Pryor, PhD, PT, DPT, has a doctorate in physical therapy and has practiced for 40 years in the field. Involved with birth to three through early intervention since 1986, she developed techniques to be utilized in homes, childcare centers, and school systems to advance therapy programs in children.Read More
What Our Course Participants Say
"Allowed me to evaluate through a more wholistic approach" – JoAnn
"Reviewing how to identify pain for better outcomes through physical therapy" – Gina
"Speaking from experiences working with different clients" – Kyung
"Very comprehensive theory" – Leah