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Recovering Function for Adults with Hemiplegia Using the Principles of NDT
Recovering Function Tiered NDT Curriculum
Intro, Advanced, Certification
Providing Adult Hemiplegia Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT) Courses for Occupational and Physical Therapists and Assistants Since 1991
  • Achieving Functional Outcomes
  • Controlling the trunk posture
  • Functional outcomes for Stella
  • Facilitating the involved LE
  • Controlling the pre-lift off posture
  • Facilitating the pre-lift off posture
  • Controlling the 1/2 standing posture
  • Facilitating muscle activity
  • After one hour
  • Use of your hands
  • Facilitating a safe transfer
  • Moving to the touch down posture
  • Edna two person max assist
  • NDT is cost effective
  • ROM for lateral lumbar flexion
  • Facilitating the lateral lumbar flexors
  • Facilitate ROM for lumbar extension
  • Assessing Edna's lumbar extension
  • Facilitate ROM for scapular adduction
  • Increase adduction of Joe's scapula
  • ROM for scapular depression
  • Lengthen Edna's scapular elevators
  • Active weight bearing of the UE
  • Facilitate muscle activity
  • Edna actively weight bearing
  • Stepping up and lateral
  • Taking the first step in gait
  • Biomechanics of the trunk
  • Moving from supine to sitting
  • Stella moving from supine to sitting
  • Using the foot as part of the BOS
  • Increasing ROM of the ribcage
  • Increasing ROM for Edna's ribcage
  • Inhibit excessive muscle activity
  • Using body with arm
  • The Extended Trunk Posture
  • Practicing with your instructor
  • Applying what you have learned
  • Movement within functional activities
  • Increasing ROM for lumbar flexion
  • Facilitating shoulder joint flexion
  • Weight bearing with shoulder flexion
  • Handouts to reinforce your learning
  • Simultaneous labs
"Why didn't I learn this information sooner!!! I feel that with this information and clinical instruction, I already can be a more effective therapist."
"I feel rejuvenated as a therapist. I am so excited to go back and put my knowledge to use. I wish I would have attended this course earlier in my career and would have been able to provide my patients more quality treatment."
"All four days I kept thinking - why didn't I take this course before? I could have helped so many of my clients who were not happy to be discharged from my care, but I had to because I had seen them long enough and I couldn't do any more for them."
"I would highly recommend this course to any OT, PT, or SLP. Thank you for your time and sparking my interest to incorporate the technique. I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to take this course."
"This was a great course and I am glad I did it at the beginning of my career."
"The course was very informative. I enjoyed the hands-on labs since I am a visual/tactile learner."
"Loved the course. Can't wait for Parts III and IV."
"Thank you for providing a course that is appropriate for a variety of skill levels and one that can be immediately utilized at the completion of the course. And the complete handouts are excellent! Best ever!"
"Loved that the traditional 'segmentation (UEvsLE)' of the person for OTvs.PT was 'dispelled'. Wish all of my colleagues took this course."
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Description
Certification Course
  • Certification
Applying the RPSFTM (Certification): Implementing Client Interventions Using the Principles of NDT
NDT Instructor: Cathy Runyan
Prereq: Part V
Contact hours: 38
Audience: OTR's, PT's, COTA's, PTA's
Each day: 8:00am - 5:30pm
Last day: 8:00am - 4:30pm
Registration: 7:30am
Description

This five day, client intervention, certification course provides you with the opportunity to learn how to apply the RPSFTM during instructor-led interventions with the featured client with hemiplegia using the principles of NDT. You will learn how to examine, assess, and treat the featured client, progressing from the initial interview to the client's achievement of individualized functional outcomes. You will develop pretests and posttests that allow you to verify and document the new individualized functional outcomes achieved by the client as the result of skilled intervention. You will learn how to use features of a functionally rich environment to examine the client's functional activity abilities and functional activity limitations according to the rehab categories from an NDT perspective. You will learn how to use manual cues to assess the client's underlying impairments while accessing missing components of movement to facilitate the use of more effective movement strategies. You will develop discipline specific, skilled intervention goals and functional activities for the client, and use features of the environment to develop progressive ranges of challenge leading to those goals. You will use the RPSFTM to develop and document achievable, reimbursable, discipline specific, individualized functional outcomes for the client, as well as to individualize home exercise programs that will promote retention and carryover.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate the ability to design pretests and posttests that validate the client's achievement of individualized functional outcomes as the result of skilled intervention
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the use of features of the environment to examine a client's functional activity abilities and functional activity limitations according the the rehab categories from and NDT perspective
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the use of manual cues to assess a client's underlying impairments while accessing missing components of movement to facilitate the use of more effective movement strategies
  • Demonstrate the ability to develop discipline specific, skilled intervention goals and movement strategies leading to those goals
  • Demonstrate the ability to use features of the environment to develop progressive ranges of challenge leading to skilled intervention goals
  • Demonstrate the ability to develop achievable, reimbursable, discipline specific, individualized functional outcomes
  • Demonstrate the ability to individualize expectations when developing home exercise programs
  • Demonstrate the ability to document daily progress toward achievable, reimbursable, discipline specific, individualized functional outcomes and correlate them to the rehab categories from and NDT perspective

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