2800 – ATRI Rheumatology Certification
Intermediate / Pool
Workshop
Offered from 7:30
am-4:30 pm at each site / 8 credit hours equal to 8 CECs/.8 CEUs
2008 Dates
Classroom: 7:30-11:30
am
Lunch (on own): 11:30
am-12:30 pm
Pool: 12:30-2:30 pm
Classroom: 2:30-4:30
pm
Pool: 7:30-9:30 am
Classroom: 9:30
am-12:00 pm
Lunch: 12:00-1:00 pm
Pool: 1:00-2:30 pm
Classroom: 2:30-4:30
pm
Faculty: Sheralee
Beebe, BA, MES
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This
ATRI Rheumatology Certification acknowledges your skills and education. It goes
beyond basic knowledge of the most common rheumatic conditions, including a
variety of other accompanying conditions, and is geared toward client
application, offering full plans on how these conditions can be treated with
therapeutic aquatic techniques. You will discuss new ideas in movement, safety
and leadership. This program provides advanced learning for rheumatological,
autoimmune and arthritis conditions. Some practitioners start with the
Arthritis Foundation course, gain some experience practicing, and then continue
to develop their education by taking the ATRI Rheumatology Certification. For
those of you who have more background, and work with different pool
temperatures, different levels of functionality, combined disease dysfunctions
or disabilities, you’ll be able to create your own program geared specifically
to that client.
This course provides
research and applied aquatic rehabilitation principles to the effects of rheumatic
diseases. Know why you are doing the exercises and plan for functional
carry-overs to land activities. Know why an exercise should or should not be
performed. Know how to gain safe progress with clients without causing
flare-ups. Learn how to have better success with rheumatological situations in
challenging conditions like FMS, TKR, THR, etc. Learn what concepts are behind
actual contraindications for arthritis, not just general "do not do"
exercises.
The inflammatory
process and the process of degenerative joint changes in the knee, spine and
shoulder are included along with how the chronic disease cycle affects people
with rheumatic conditions. Be aware of the varied symptoms of the most common
types of Arthritis - Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Fibromyalgia,
Ankylosing Spondylitis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Lupus, and Scleroderma.
COURSE
OBJECTIVES: At the
conclusion of the course, participants should be able to:
¨ Apply hydrodynamics and the
physiological effects of immersion to gain specific therapeutic goals in the
treatment of arthritis.
¨ Educate clients to become more active through knowledge, and
empower them to be active participants in their own progress and health
maintenance.
¨ Identify special
precautions and aquatic training principles used to increase strength, range of
motion, endurance, and functional capacity of a rheumatic client.
¨ Apply training
principles to common medical conditions that rheumatic participants may also
have (i.e., hypertension, diabetes, asthma, etc.).
¨ Demonstrate the
integration of functional exercises to enhance the quality of life and active
daily living abilities.
¨ Identify ROM
exercises addressing all major joints of the body, especially those commonly
affected by rheumatic conditions.
¨ Identify stretching
techniques and precautions for each major muscle group, including lumbar and
cervical spine, hamstrings, quadriceps, shoulder, pectorals, obliques, hips,
biceps, triceps and gastrocs.
¨ Demonstrate common
relaxation strategies to facilitate stress and pain management.
FACULTY: Sheralee Beebe, BA, MES, is a Post-Rehab Aquatic Specialist, who has been practicing since 1991. She has developed three full-service aquatic rehab programs in Canada and California. Sheralee is the co-author of the ATRI Rheumatology Certification, and is a member of the ATRI Standards and Certification Committees.