3310 – LE Joint Replacements

Advanced / Symposium 2-hour Pool Workshop

Sanibel, FL / Thursday, July 1, 2010 – 7:00-9:20 am – 2.0 credit hours equal to 2.0 CECs/.2 CEUs

(Classroom: 7:00-8:00 am / Pool: 8:20-9:20 am)

Faculty: Marilyn McQuade, BS, PT

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will teach a variety of manual techniques and therapeutic exercise for total joint replacement for hips and knees. We will include both land and pool treatments for the most common surgical techniques and prosthetics. The newest surgical techniques will be discussed with therapeutic options to correlate with them. We will review manual mobilizations and indications of what to use and when to use it. Indications and contraindications with acute and sub-acute protocols are discussed and experienced. A very brief review of the anatomy and how it relates to the prosthesis will be included.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1) Participate in joint mobilizations, passive range-of-motion, and contract/relax techniques.

2) Experience quad pumping, soft tissue massage, myofascial release and adaptations for each patient.

3) Examine scar mobilizations, patella mobilizations and hip release techniques.

4) Explore LE stretching, Dynasplints and JAS splints for tight joints.

5) Review kinesiotaping that tolerates water therapy.

FACULTY: Marilyn McQuade, BS, PT, is a manually based orthopedic physical therapist, specializing in aquatic therapy. She has 20 years of experience and now focuses on outpatient orthopedics, both in the water and on land. Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in dance education/therapy, teaching and performing dance, and working as a kinesiotherapist. She is interested in all forms of bodywork and has been working for the past 10 years in an outpatient orthopedic clinic in Fairfield, CT.