Certificate Course in Clinical Orthopedics – Terry Rzepkowski

Orthopedics is an incredibly fast-moving specialty. Technological advancements are dramatically adding to the vast options available for a wide variety of orthopedic problems — making it challenging to stay current…

Don’t let your treatment interventions become stagnant!

Participate in this intense training program and receive a certificate of professional recognition in Clinical Orthopedics. This self-paced online course will deliver all the latest orthopedic innovations you need to stay on top of your game — to get you where you want (and need) to be!

Join orthopedic expert clinician, Terry Rzepkowski, DPT, as he shares cutting edge concepts that are being integrated into practice today, and learn the latest clinical evidence that should be guiding your treatment decisions. Return to work with new ideas, new tests you can use to identify orthopedic problems correctly, and new concepts to make certain the rehabilitation plan chosen is specific to your individual patients.

Here’s what you will learn in this comprehensive online course:

Intensive Clinical Orthopedic Certificate Course

Modules 1–3:

Assessment of the Orthopedic joint patient

• Application of orthopedic special tests and their findings
• Correlation of special test findings with diagnostic imaging results
• Rehabilitation options with consideration of conservative therapies, function and pain level, surgical options, physical co-morbidities, and relative bone density

Video presentations of surgical procedures

• Shoulder arthroscopic procedures: SAD, RTC repair, SLAP and Bankart repair
• Total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) & reverse TSA
• Radiograph assisted Total Elbow Arthroplasty
• Practice in donning and doffing of UE immobilizers

Modules 4–6:

Actual patient video presentations of surgical procedures

• Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA), conventional posterior and lateral approaches
• Knee Arthroscopic procedures: Partial meniscectomy, meniscal repair, bio ingrowth cartilage
• Total Knee replacement (TKA) conventional and sub vastus, uni & bi compartment
• The future of joint replacement with custom implants, computerized and robotic assisted hip, knee and ankle replacement

Acute post-op recovery

• Discharge planning: Guidelines for Total joints
• Acute Rehab / Skilled Nursing / Home which is the right choice in terms of accessibility, assistance, activity restrictions, and length of time
• Pain management, opioid tolerance and opioid induced constipation (OIC)
• Use of cold recirculator units and cold compression devices
• Active and passive TED strategies
• Wound Care / Infection Prevention
• Demonstration of PICO dressing and point of care PT/INR
• Selection and adjustment of assistive devices with instruction in proper usage for support

Modules 7–9:

Treatment sessions for the acute through the subacute phase of recovery

• Shoulder: Active proximal scapular exercise and cervical stretching techniques with permissible distal UE
• Hip: Immediate post-op exercises and progressions for the conventional and anterior approach, including transfer considerations
• Knee: Immediate post-op exercises and progressions for the conventional and subvastus approach, including forms of stretching

Strategies of optimal function for out-patient and beyond

• Shoulder: Manual techniques to build proximal scapular stabilization and progression to rotator cuff strengthening
• Hip: Progression of core pelvic strengthening, proximal trunk stability, proprioceptive, balance, coordination activities, return of normal gait mechanics
• Knee: Progression of flexibility exercises, patellar mobilization, demonstration of patella femoral taping, the importance of proper footwear, proprioceptive, balance, coordination activities, return of normal gait mechanics