3202 - Advanced Gait and Balance
Advanced / Pre-Symposium Pool Workshop
Fort Myers, FL /
Tuesday, July 1 – 7:00-11:20 am – 4.0 credit hours equal to 4.0 CECs/.4 CEUs
(Pool: 7:00-9:00 am / Classroom:
9:20-11:20 am)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This class
will focus on gait and those deficits relative to balance discrepancies. While
balance is a multi-factorial process, training to improve it can be broken down
into providing an environment that challenges but is not a high-fall risk. This
class will seek to demonstrate the value of water therapy on balance
enhancement based on the motor learning model.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1) Provide an explanation for the
relationship between balance deficits and gait deviations.
2) Utilize motor learning theory as it relates to
balance training, specifically with respect to aquatic interventions.
3) Evaluate balance deficits in patients and
provide an aquatic treatment progression.
4) Examine those balance deficits with respect
to normal gait sequencing and provide an aquatic progression to address these
issues.
5) Recognize those patients who might not
benefit from water therapy intervention gait deviations and/or balance-related
deficits.
FACULTY: Marty Biondi, PT, CSCS,
ATRIC, is co-owner of Therapeutic & Wellness Specialists and
has been involved in various aspects of aquatics for 30 years. She was recently
elected Director of Practice for the APTA Aquatic Section and is involved with
aquatic research, specifically low back pain.