Course Description:

This educational offering will provide therapists with the ability to progress our geriatric patient’s exercise prescription from muscular endurance in single plane motions to integrated strength and power training in multi-planar activities. The ICF Model will be the framework to guide the clinician through the process of determining the specific impairments limiting function through exercise selection and progression. A variety of exercises related to commonly seen impairments (difficulty sustaining closed-chain knee extension, poor glute activation, backward disequilibrium, postural control) will be presented and supporting literature offered. A combination of lecture, discussion, pictures, and video examples will be used.