#7408 DISABILITY AND POSTURE AROUND THE CLOCK: Therapeutic Positioning For All Ages

Course Summary:

24-hour posture care management considers an individual’s posture, comfort and function over all hours in the day and night. This approach promotes health and optimal function in people with motor disabilities by building a foundation of body symmetry and stable posture. Developed and established over the last 40 years outside North America, this intervention is becoming recognized in the United States for its potential to protect and improve body alignment, support restful sleep, safeguard respiratory and digestive functions and reduce pain. Individuals with chronic or progressive motor disabilities often experience compromise of these functions over time as body shape and postural instability worsens, secondary to complications like joint contractures and dislocations, scoliosis and kyphosis. The premise of this webinar is that supporting healthy lying posture can be crucial for people who cannot change their position in bed easily, often and with variety. Unhealthy lying postures with poor body alignment may be noted but are often not routinely addressed in treatment planning. The webinar provides an overview of theory and practice with visual examples and longitudinal case studies to illustrate concepts underpinning posture care management, focusing on sleep and resting postures.

Objectives

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

1. Describe biomechanical forces that cause distortion of body shape over time.

2. Describe two key components of the most protective supported sleep posture for persons with motor impairments.

3. List two potential safety risks when considering implementation of night-time postural care management.

Audience

Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapist, and Assistants, Nurses

Motivations, Inc. courses are approved for PT by the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy. Motivations Inc is an approved provider of Physical Therapy continuing education by these professional bodies: Texas Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association, ILDPR- Illinois Department of Professional Regulation Approved PT CE Sponsor, NY- New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions. Physical Therapy Board of California. Many state boards recognize these for pre-approval purposes. OT CEU’s: AOTA: Motivations, Inc. is an approved provider of continuing education by the American Occupational Therapy Association #4002, for 3 contact hours - Intermediate Level Occupational Therapy Process: evaluation, intervention. Distance Learning: Interactive. The assignment of AOTA CEU's does not imply endorsement of content, products or clinical procedures by AOTA

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#7408 DISABILITY AND POSTURE AROUND THE CLOCK: Therapeutic Positioning For All Ages

Objectives

Audience

Customer Service