Upcoming Medical Conferences in Pasadena

Motor Control - Enhancing Functional Movement Through Central Nervous System Neuroplastic Change is organized by Health Click and will be held from Mar 23 - 24, 2019 at Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is for PT, PTA, OT, OTA, AT. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 15 hours of CME credit. CME : This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18.0 contact hours/1.80 CEU’s for therapists licensed in District of Columbia, New York, or Illinois. Conference Description : This two-day advanced course will systematically encourage critical thinking of how a therapist might carefully consider each patient’s unique parameters that will allow him or her to learn (or re-learn) motor control through central nervous system neuroplastic change. The course will explore the connection between neuroscience and clinical outcomes in a tangible manner such that meaningful progress can be achieved. Goal setting, measuring progress and addressing funding concerns will also be discussed in detail. Unique pediatric, adult and geriatric challenges will be discussed with respect to creating the best possible outcomes. Discussion of outcome measure selection with consideration to the patient’s diagnosis and age will help the clinician follow, progress and formulate evidence-based strategies; as well as justify the need for therapeutic intervention within today’s health care funding parameters. A focus on implementing family-centered care will also be an important topic in this course. Conference Objectives are : • Demonstrate understanding of neuroplasticity applied to patients with neurological impairment at any age. • Demonstrate understanding of various motor control theories and select valid concepts toward developing an effective plan of care for the patient with neurological impairment. • Identify sensorimotor impairments and effective therapeutic interventions based on video case studies. • Develop programs that enhance movement therapy strategies including task-specific training, activity based strengthening, and the benefits of neuromuscular reeducation across the life span with consideration of unique diagnostic and patient characteristics. • Identify unique characteristics within specific diagnostic groups that require special attention for developing motor learning. • Identify the secondary effects of abnormalities of tone and posture. • Perform outcome tests and measures that are reliable in assessing the level of recovery for the patient with neurological impairment at any age. • Identify important documentation elements toward insuring funding for necessary therapy intervention. • Discuss current healthcare legislation and the impact on family centered care. • Identify key evaluation and treatment techniques to enhance lasting function in a value-based accountability system. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Principle-Based Comprehensive Dentistry Restored Esthetically is organized by Ultradent Products, Inc. and will be held on Apr 05, 2019 at Pasadena, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Dentist and Team Members. This CE Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6 CE Credits. Course Objectives: • The principles of treating the patient right and being remarkable • How to implement case planning and patient education so patients value what you do • Why every patient should hear about whitening • The techniques you need to know about successful bonding-it’s the small stuff that counts Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Southern California Orofacial Academy (SCOA) 17th Annual Spring Scientific Meeting Pearls And Misadventures Symposium II is organized by Southern California Orofacial Academy (SCOA) and will be held on Apr 10, 2019 at Hilton Pasadena, Pasadena, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Stroke Rehab - An Integrated Functional Movement Approach is organized by Healthclick and will be held from Apr 12 - 14, 2019 at Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is for PT, PTA, OT, OTA, AT. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 22 hours of CME credits. CME : This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18.0 contact hours/1.8 ceus for NY, IL, or DC licensed therapists. Conference Description : This course provides a systematic movement re-education treatment approach. Concepts presented will teach you how to utilize the fundamental movement patterns of the neurodevelopmental sequence to view mobility and static/dynamic stability problems in a more isolated setting. You will learn how to identify a patient’s most dysfunctional movement pattern following stroke, or any other movement disorder, and reduce that pattern into its many underlying mobilizing and stabilizing actions and reactions that constitute function. As demonstrated in the labs, movement patterns can be assisted and facilitated, corrected (with manual therapy and prescribed proprioceptively enriched therapeutic exercise), and progressed. After completion of this course, the participant will have the information needed to evaluate and treat movement dysfunction. Participants will leave this course with a safe, progressive and evidence-based approach to allow for strong therapy outcomes regardless of therapy background or treatment setting. Physical and Occupational Therapists and Assistants treat patients and their impairments, not the diagnosis. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of a stroke diagnosis will enhance the therapists ability to determine specific rehab needs of the patient. This course, with applications for patients in all therapy settings, will focus on the movement re-education needs required for basic daily function of the patient from an integrated approach based on neurologic science and orthopedics. This intermediate level course combines lecture and extensive lab time designed for participants to practice motor skills covered in lecture that will immediately enhance a clinician’s ability to treat this population. Historic and modern approaches to stroke rehab such as: motor control theory, PNF, NDT, strength training, forced use paradigm, mobility and gait unloading and training will all be integrated into this movement training approach. Orthopedic concerns of the neurological patient and the hemiplegic shoulder will also be addressed. Conference Objectives are : • Identify how to analyze, correct and progress movement patterns. • Develop and perform a complete evaluation approach linking movement assessment findings to functional patterns. • Discuss evidence-based practice for strength training, forced use, body weight supported therapies and virtual reality and how they relate to the stroke patient population. • Describe the scientific and clinical rationale behind the development of an exercise program for the treatment of functional mobility in the stroke population. • Demonstrate the proper utilization of the fundamental movement patterns of the neurodevelopmental sequence to view mobility and static/dynamic stability problems in a more isolated setting. • Identify a patient’s most dysfunctional movement pattern following stroke, reduce that pattern into its many underlying mobilizing and stabilizing actions and reactions that constitute function. • Describe how neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction can lead to impaired motor control and movement patterns. • Recognize how to utilize neuromuscular inhibition and facilitation techniques and how to sequence them in therapy prescriptions for maximum functional outcomes. • Develop home exercise programs of prescribed fundamental movement patterns to maintain functional results. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

The Core - Stability, Breathing, and Training is organized by HealthClick and will be held on Apr 12, 2019 at Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 7.5 hours of CME credit. Course Description: Clinicians will be presented with the information to assess and correct a variety of breathing patterns and core stabilization strategies to optimize the most efficient pattern for all patients and conditions. A few of concepts that will be taught and practiced during this lab based course include appropriate postural positioning, reflexive stabilization, isometric rotational stability, proprioceptive facilitation, irradiation, approximation, and core integration with prime movers. Applications of techniques will cover beginning core activation for the post-op or ICU patient in supine position all the way to the high level performance client utilizing asymmetric positions. Course Objectives are: • Discuss the concepts of the working model of the core. • Identify how to reflexively activate the core using facilitation and approximation. • Assess respiraton and stabilization patterns and develop corrections to optimize performance. • Develop rehab programs that train and progress core stability with functional movements. • Identify the most appropriate low level core activation activities that can be utilized to improve the functional movement for patients in ICU, acute and SNF settings. • Demonstrate low and mid level core activation activities for home health and outpatient clients. • Demonstrate high level therapeutic activities for outpatient, wellness and sports performance patients/clients. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Stroke Rehab - An Integrated Functional Movement Approach is organized by Healthclick and will be held from Apr 13 - 14, 2019 at Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is for PT, PTA, OT, OTA, AT. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 15 hours of CME credits. CME : This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18.0 contact hours/1.8 ceus for NY, IL, or DC licensed therapists. Conference Description : This course provides a systematic movement re-education treatment approach. Concepts presented will teach you how to utilize the fundamental movement patterns of the neurodevelopmental sequence to view mobility and static/dynamic stability problems in a more isolated setting. You will learn how to identify a patient’s most dysfunctional movement pattern following stroke, or any other movement disorder, and reduce that pattern into its many underlying mobilizing and stabilizing actions and reactions that constitute function. As demonstrated in the labs, movement patterns can be assisted and facilitated, corrected (with manual therapy and prescribed proprioceptively enriched therapeutic exercise), and progressed. After completion of this course, the participant will have the information needed to evaluate and treat movement dysfunction. Participants will leave this course with a safe, progressive and evidence-based approach to allow for strong therapy outcomes regardless of therapy background or treatment setting. Physical and Occupational Therapists and Assistants treat patients and their impairments, not the diagnosis. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of a stroke diagnosis will enhance the therapists ability to determine specific rehab needs of the patient. This course, with applications for patients in all therapy settings, will focus on the movement re-education needs required for basic daily function of the patient from an integrated approach based on neurologic science and orthopedics. This intermediate level course combines lecture and extensive lab time designed for participants to practice motor skills covered in lecture that will immediately enhance a clinician’s ability to treat this population. Historic and modern approaches to stroke rehab such as: motor control theory, PNF, NDT, strength training, forced use paradigm, mobility and gait unloading and training will all be integrated into this movement training approach. Orthopedic concerns of the neurological patient and the hemiplegic shoulder will also be addressed. Conference Objectives are : • Identify how to analyze, correct and progress movement patterns. • Develop and perform a complete evaluation approach linking movement assessment findings to functional patterns. • Discuss evidence-based practice for strength training, forced use, body weight supported therapies and virtual reality and how they relate to the stroke patient population. • Describe the scientific and clinical rationale behind the development of an exercise program for the treatment of functional mobility in the stroke population. • Demonstrate the proper utilization of the fundamental movement patterns of the neurodevelopmental sequence to view mobility and static/dynamic stability problems in a more isolated setting. • Identify a patient’s most dysfunctional movement pattern following stroke, reduce that pattern into its many underlying mobilizing and stabilizing actions and reactions that constitute function. • Describe how neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction can lead to impaired motor control and movement patterns. • Recognize how to utilize neuromuscular inhibition and facilitation techniques and how to sequence them in therapy prescriptions for maximum functional outcomes. • Develop home exercise programs of prescribed fundamental movement patterns to maintain functional results. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Western Psychological Association (WPA) 99th Annual Convention is organized by Western Psychological Association (WPA) and would be held during Apr 25 - 28, 2019 at Pasadena, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical meeting basically for Psychologists. Additional Details will be posted as soon as they are available

A Master Clinicians Approach to Advanced Concepts in Examination and Treatment of the Shoulder Complex is organized by Healthclick and will be held from Apr 27 - 28, 2019 at Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is for PT’s, PTA’s, OT’s and AT’s. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 15 hours of CME credit. CME : This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18.0 contact hours/1.8 ceus for New York, Illinois or District of Columbia licensed therapists. Conference Description : This two-day advanced course provides an in-depth analysis of the scientific and clinical rationale for examination and treatment of selected shoulder complex conditions. Over one-third of this course involves hands-on lab sessions utilizing case studies, clinical reasoning and problem solving skills. A special focus will be on the algorithm-based examination format for the special tests of the shoulder. Updated evidence-based information on sensitivity/specificity and likelihood ratios of the tests will be thoroughly addressed. In addition, selected mobilization techniques, rhythmic stabilization, perturbation techniques, and open and closed chain exercises will be practiced in the laboratory sessions. Discussion of evidence-based rehabilitation will include the optimum exercises for rehabilitation of the shoulder complex, shoulder taping, proprioceptive/kinesthetic training techniques and the scientific basis for plyometrics. Emphasis will be placed on evidence-based practice incorporating the examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment intervention strategies and clinical outcome studies for patients with selected shoulder conditions. Conference Objectives are : • Identify an understanding of the basic concepts and principles of evidence-based practice into ones own clinical practice patterns. • Describe and utilize the resources available to research the current best practices. • Demonstrate an understanding of algorithm-based examination and evaluation of the shoulder complex. • Explain the key factors affecting clinical efficiency and accuracy when using an algorithm-based examination process. • Discriminate and evaluate the examination findings using clinical reasoning skills to develop successful therapeutic intervention programs. • Describe the difference between adhesive capsulitis and shoulder selective hypomobility. • Develop an integrated evidence-based (when available) and empirically-based rehabilitation program for specific dysfunctions of the shoulder. • Describe the selected disorders of the shoulder discussed in the course. • Differentiate an understanding of the most recent advances in the examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment interventions and outcomes of selected shoulder disorders using evidence-based concepts. • Design effective outcome evaluation measures based upon current evidence-based clinical and scientific information to develop effective outcome evaluation measures. • Interpret outcomes to impact future treatment models. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

The Complex Geriatric Patient is organized by Healthclick and will be held from May 04 - 05, 2019 at Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is for PT, PTA, OT, OTA, AT. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 16 hours of CME credit. CME : This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 19 contact hours/1.9 ceu’s for therapists licensed in Illinois, New York, or the District of Columbia. Conference Description : Identifying the optimal treatment progression for a complex patient is essential in today’s health care environment. Therapists must combine all of their skills, whether neurological or orthopedic, in order to develop progressive programs that are efficient and safe for geriatric clients. This intermediate-level course begins with more than two hours of evidence-based information, a preliminary lead-in as to how to treat your complex geriatric patient. In addition, essential information will be provided on how to identify red flags, perform thorough evaluations and set realistic functional goals for the complex geriatric patient. Case studies of patients with multiple diagnoses will be presented in a systematic sequence so that the appropriate understanding of how to prioritize your approach can be established. Working with developmental sequences will enhance the patient’s coordination, balance, strength and range of motion and will produce a positive result in the patient’s ability to perform activities for daily living, maximize fall prevention, and reduce re-hospitalization. By utilizing developmental sequences in conjunction with traditional rehab practices, therapists should possess the knowledge base to treat complex geriatric patients with multiple diagnoses, including MS, Parkinson’s, post CVA, head injuries, obesity, total hip and/or knee repairs, osteoarthritis, as well as other orthopedic issues. Conference Objectives are : • Assess vital signs, cognitive function, cardio, respiratory function and skin integrity, balance and functional limitations of the complex patient. Applying these skills when working with the acute rehab, outpatient or the home bound patient. • Demonstrate how to utilize the proper cognitive and functional evidence-based assessment tools to establish baselines and progression of care to reach targeted outcomes. • Describe the benefits to utilizing progressive developmental sequencing to optimize coordinated functional movement. • Utilize evidence-based tools to evaluate deficits in mobility and/or stability in the complex geriatric patient . • Develop strategies to reducing re-hospitalization rates. • Analyze abnormalities in the components involved with functional movements and prioritize a treatment approach to improve an individuals functional patterns of movement. • Prioritize impairments when developing comprehensive treatment programs for the geriatric patients with neurological and/or orthopedic problems. • Perform hands on techniques to facilitate the functional activities of daily living; including soft tissue mobilization, manual therapy (PNF), joint mobilization, muscle strengthening, and range of motion activities. • Describe the initiation of movement (stability to mobility and coordination) when utilizing developments sequencing to enhance functional motion. • Identify key strategies for interventions for fall prevention. • Integrate basic EBP principles of treatment into the developmental sequence for more comprehensive functional outcomes. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Examination and Treatment of Shoulder Injury in the Overhead Athlete is organized by Healthclick and will be held from May 18 - 19, 2019 at Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is designed PT’s, PTA’s AT’s and OT’s to optimize their knowledge and skills when treating shoulder injuries. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 15 hours of CME credits. CME : This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18 contact hours/1.8 ceu’s for DC, NY or IL therapists. Conference Description : This two-day advanced course will provide the clinician with the most recent evidence-based practice guidelines when treating overhead athletes from youth to adult. With an increase in early sport specialization, this course will highlight the risks and benefits of early sport specialization in pediatrics and how care differs from the skeletally mature adult. Participants will receive the latest research on Tommy John repairs for UCL tears, shoulder labral pathologies and pediatric diagnoses that are seen in the overhead athletes. This course will focus on the science and art behind performing a comprehensive evaluation and creating a well-rounded, complete plan of care for overhead athlete. Over 40% of the class is spent hands-on with lab session where clinicians are practicing evaluation skills, manual skills and advanced therapeutic exercises that can be utilized the next day in clinics with your athletes. A special focus will be on getting overhead athletes back into the game safely with utilizing video throwing analysis and evidence based return to play protocols. With the growing changes in the health care coverage, the overall course objective is equip the participants with the most up to date evidence to improve overhead athletes’ outcomes quicker. A comprehensive course packet will include pictures, references and clinical pearls for quick reference in the clinic. Conference Objectives are : • Identify the changes in injury incidence and the associated risks in sports for the overhead athlete. • Identify common overhead athlete diagnoses and their signs and symptoms. • Review and perform an evidence based upper extremity evaluation. • Discuss the literature behind manual therapy techniques as a treatment for the overhead athlete. • Perform soft tissue mobility and joint mobilization techniques for the upper extremity with emphasis on the overhead athlete. • Explain the role of the lower extremities in the overhead athlete. • Discuss and apply the literature behind therapeutic exercises and their progression for the overhead athlete. • Identify and perform the current evidence for return to play criterion for the overhead athlete. • Discuss optimal throwing mechanics and apply this understanding to treating overhead athletes. • Discuss current literature on performance enhancement protocol for the overhead athlete. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.