APTEI: Applying Neuroplasticity Concepts to Physiotherapy Practice

Overview

With expanding research on neuroplasticity, it is becoming more evident that everything we do as physical therapists influence the brain and potentially the homunculus.

There is now tremendous evidence that individuals with persistent pain have altered cortical homunculus, body schema, reduced tactile acuity, and reduced proprioception / joint position sense (JPS). Perhaps we can be more effective as clinicians if we place a greater focus on changing the brain rather than habitually focusing on patho-anatomy and always attempting to "fix" tissues.

This online continuing education course taught by Bahram Jam, founder of APTEI, explores these concepts and their application into a physiotherapists' practice.

In This Online Physiotherapy Course, You Will Learn:

• How you can enhance patient outcomes by maximizing patients' awareness of every exercise or movement that we prescribe
• Appreciate and understand how everything we do in physical therapy has an influence on the brain
• Use this knowledge to improve outcomes with patients who have persistent pain conditions, including Whiplash Associated Disorder (WAD), chronic low back pain (LBP), knee osteoarthritis, post-concussion syndrome, and many others.

Who Is This Course For?

This online course is for physiotherapists and all healthcare professionals who are licensed or who are eligible to be licensed to practice.

What’s Included In This Online Physiotherapy Course?

• 1.5 hours of video lessons.
• Patient education material that can be shared with your patients electronically through Embodia. This allows your patients to access what you send them on a mobile or web app, track their progress and receive push notifications.
• Bite-sized information: all of the content is broken down into bite-sized chunks, so that you can easily watch a video on your break, over lunch, or for a few minutes at night.
• Lifetime access. You can return to this course at any time. If any material is updated or added, you will have access to the new content.
• Certificate of completion. Once you've completed the course, you will receive a certificate for your professional portfolio.
• Access to this course is through Embodia, and although some of the content, such as the workbook can be downloaded, the majority cannot. This is to protect the instructor’s material and to prevent the content from being shared freely on the Internet.
• Embodia is mobile-friendly and can be accessed by phone, tablet, and computer.
• There is no start date or completion date. You can complete the course at your own pace.
• Quizzes throughout to help you integrate the knowledge.
• You will be sent a receipt as soon as you purchase this course. This receipt can be used for education grants and for tax purposes.
• A Special Coupon for 15% off any other online course on Embodia Academy when you’ve completed this course!

Looking for CEUs?

This course is approved for 3 General CEUs for South African physiotherapists.