Tennessee – Post-Arthroplasty Rehab of the Knee
$70.99
Approved in the state of Tennessee for all PT’s and PTA’s!
Focuses on current evidence-based interventions for promoting high level functional return to a patient’s requested level of daily activities. This presentation will be based on the speaker’s 46 years of practical experience in treating total joint replacement of the knee. Today’s surgical procedures including less invasive options such as unicompartmental knee will be presented.
Course Overview
Course Objectives:
• Participants will be able to select the three most important post-operative interventions for early total knee replacement to stabilize gait
• Given a case study of a total knee replacement, participants will independently develop a treatment plan broken into 3 phases of healing
• Participants will be able to create functional training activities that are evidence-based to improve knee mobility.
• Participants will be able to create a progressive, functional exercise treatment for a successful patient recovery following total knee arthroplasty.
Approval Info
This online continuing education course has been approved by APTA TN for 2 CE hours.
Approval Number 2023-060.
Course Developer
Terry Trundle, PTA, AT (Retired), is a course developer for AHP. He is also a course developer and Instructor for the Institute of Advanced Musculoskeletal Treatments. He teaches seminars on Functional Rehabilitation of the Shoulder, Knee and Development of the Orthopedic Proficiency Certificate Track. Currently, Terry is a Sports Injury Consultant for BenchMark Physical Therapy in Acworth, Georgia. He is a Graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. As a Graduate of the Medical College of Georgia he was selected as a Distinguished Alumni Inductee in 2008 from the School of Allied Health. For 18 years He was president of Clinical Specialists, Inc. that provided clinical seminars with cadaver dissection and surgical demonstration of the shoulder and knee.
As a career long member of the American Physical Therapy Association, he received his Advanced Proficiency Recognition in Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy in 2005. In recent years, he was the creator and chair of the Advisory Board for the Annual Conference known as the Rehab Summit. Terry’s research has been featured in numerous journals and publications. Most recently, he authored a chapter on the Orthopedic Management for the Shoulder in Fundamental Orthopedic Management for the Physical Therapist Assistant (Textbook). Terry is now a Retired Certified Athletic Trainer of the National Athletic Trainers Association.
