Guiding Paths: Finding the Best Routes to Manage Excessive Pronation
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Location
Courtyard by Marriott Jonesboro
Course Description:
CEUs: 2.5
This live course provides extensive review on the importance of early movement patterns and how it affects postural control, gait, and other upright motor skills. Patients with low muscle tone, high muscle tone, and sensory dysfunction often develop compensations in early movement patterns. These compensations negatively affect alignment, muscle activation patterns, and motor skills moving forward. This course highlights what these compensations are and how we can address them within the population subsets of hypotonia, hypertonia, and sensory dysfunction with dynamic orthotic solutions. The objectives of the orthotic interventions presented are to drive better postural control, improve alignment and muscle activation, to help create new movement strategies and improve gross motor acquisition especially when patients have excessive pronation that is symptomatic. Throughout the program, learners will participate in large group discussions of in-depth case studies. These case studies will prepare the learner to evaluate and assess for orthotic solutions.
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Course Outline: (3 Hours (180 mins) / 2.5 Contact Hours
Part 1: Move It! (70 mins)
Introduction (5 mins)
- Lecture on early movement patterns, postural control, and gait (30 mins)
- Case study review and discussion (30 mins)
- Break (10 mins)
Part 2: Activate It! (90 min)
- Lecture on typical gait development, excessive low tone pronation and its consequences (30 mins)
- Lecture on dynamic orthotic solutions and case studies (20 mins)
- Lecture on open heel modification and case study (5 mins)
- Lecture on excessive high tone pronation (10 mins)
- Case review and study discussion (25 mins)
- Q&A (15 mins)
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