OVERVIEW

Rotation Before Elevation in Stiff and Painful Shoulders Course is organized by PT Seminars.

Course Description:
One of the most important functional movements of the shoulder is active elevation. Restoring elevation in a time-efficient manner remains a challenging problem. The rehabilitation specialist needs to be a detective and figure out why a joint is not moving and/or what is causing the pain. Shoulder elevation is one of the most complicated movements in the body. The treatment of a stiff and painful one should not reproduce the pain that the patient has come to physical therapy to get rid of.
If we analyze the shoulder motions, it is made up of moving parts all responsible for the functional movement patterns that the joint allows. There are three major moving parts of the shoulder, the scapula, humerus, and clavicle, making up three moving joints. The glenohumeral (G-H) and the acromio-clavicular (AC) are synovial joints, whereas the scapula-thoracic (ST) is a sesamoid bone floating around the ribs. We believe that restoring rotation of the glenohumeral joint, acromio-clavicular and scapulo-thoracic articulation before elevation is the safest and most efficient method of treating patients with stiff and painful shoulders.

This online certificate course for Physical Therapists & Occupational Therapists is a learning module taught via on-demand streaming video. At the end of the course, there will be a quiz. Upon successful completion of the quiz, a certificate confirming completion of the Rotation Before Elevation in Stiff and Painful Shoulders will be issued.

Course Objectives:
• Describe the mechanics of the shoulder that promotes rotation as the major function of the shoulder.
• Understand that evaluation of the shoulder using rotational movements in different planes will assist the therapist in developing a differential soft tissue diagnosis.
• Describe the interrelationship of soft tissue structures in the shoulder that create functional movements that involve rotation.
• Design and develop a rehabilitation program for the stiff and painful shoulder that promotes restoring rotation.
• Understand the therapeutic effect of low-load prolonged stretch, stress relaxation, and mobilization to the periarticular structures of the shoulder
• Explain why rotational strengthening exercises are the most important functional exercises for the shoulder

Course Outline:
• Force couples make up the normal mechanics of the shoulder
• Defining the central position of the glenohumeral joint
• Evaluation of Rotation of the glenohumeral joint and the scapula thoracic joint
• Treatment of the shoulder through the restoration of Rotation at the glenohumeral joint, acromio- clavicular and scapulo-thoracic.