Benjamin White – Neuro-Developmental Treatment Master Class: Effective Strategies for Predictable Treatment Outcomes

Outline

HOT TOPICS AND INNOVATIONS IN NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL TREATMENT

• How your patients can benefite from cutting edge research

HANDS-ON LAB: UPGRADE YOUR ASSESSMENT AND CLINICAL REASONING SKILLS

• Get to the root causes of impairments faster with better evaluation techniques for:
  • Upper and lower extremity dysfunction
  • Executive dysfunction
  • Pain
  • Muscular weakness
  • Decreased sensation
  • Limited flexibility
  • Fall risk
  • Fatigue
  • Depression/low motivation

HANDS-ON LAB: REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR REHAB TOOLBOX WITH NDT

• Practice effective techniques you can use immediately to:
  • Rapidly restore function
  • Rebuild strength, mobility and stability
  • Improve multitasking and gait
  • Reduce fall risk
  • Increase alertness and executive function
  • Ignite neuroplasticity for breakthroughs
  • Intensify therapy safety and effectively
  • Motivate difficult or depressed patients
  • Reverse the tide of compensation
  • Reduce pain and improve tolerance
  • Avoid progress plateaus

HANDS-ON LAB: COMBINE MULTIPLE MODALITIES MORE EFFECTIVELY FOR BETTER RESULTS

• Practice integrating:
  • NDT
  • High intensity aerobic activity
    • Treadmill training
    • Upper Extremity Bicycle
  • Kinesiology taping
  • Indoor/outdoor exercise
  • Resistive exercise
  • Flexibility training

HANDS-ON LAB: DESIGN ADVANCED, INNOVATIVE PLANS OF CARE FOR YOUR PATIENTS

• Practice developing effective treatment strategies that reflect desired outcomes with:
  • Stroke
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Concussion
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Guillean Barre
  • Conversion disorder
  • Transverse myelitis
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Shoulder subluxation
  • Amputation
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Myelopathy

CASE STUDIES: PUT KNOWLEDGE TO PRACTICE

• Case study 1: Correctly select the root cause of impairment
• Case study 2: Apply advanced gait training and multitasking techniques
• Case study 3: Improve patient pain tolerance
• Case study 4: Reverse the tide of compensation for impairments
• Case study 5: Adjust your plan of care to prevent progress plateaus

MAXIMIZE YOUR REIMBURSEMENT

• Coding and billing updates
• Justify therapy with the right progress measures
• Avoid denials and audits with these tips