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Relevant Pre-Conference Institutes
We have heard your request for clinically meaningful and specialized Pre-Conference Institutes. Our hand therapy community places high value on education that better serve our diverse client population. In order to maximize your education time, this year’s pre-conference courses target education choices to address a variety of patient diagnosis groups. This is your opportunity to take full advantage of your education time.
- Hand Therapy in Pediatrics: Collaboration for Best Outcomes for Pain-related and Neurological Conditions
- This course promises to deliver with emphasis on helping the pediatric client and family improve their occupational performance and quality of life through up-to-date evidence-based interventions. This dynamic duo of hand surgeon and therapist presenters will boost your knowledge and skills to address post-operative interventions following surgery for the pediatric client.
- Hands On Orthotics – Simplifying Static Progressive Orthoses
- This is a traditionally popular course that will sharpen your orthoses fabrication skills. You will learn the ins and outs of static progressive orthoses fabrication with clinical pearls provided by the dynamic team members of ASHT’s Education Division.
- Head in Hand: Blending Pain Science into Our Daily Practice to Optimize Outcomes
- Get the latest holistic approaches in pain science. This course goes beyond a reductionist pain management approach to introduce interventions that blend the current pain science with traditional hand therapy interventions.
- Manual Therapy for Painful Diagnosis
- This is a course for hand therapists at all experience levels to gain hands-on manual skills. Become part of your medical community’s pain management team by learning to address postural imbalances, arthritic changes, overuse syndromes and apply a variety of manual techniques including myofascial release and trigger point/tender point release.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm