Maximizing Mobility, Balance, Gait, and Fall Reduction Strategies to Improve Functional Outcomes in Older Adults

Despite advances in medicine, increased access to healthcare, and improved surgical strategies, quality of life for adult and geriatric populations has been reduced as quantity and productivity have taken priority over quality and individuality. Regardless of clinical setting, clinicians are asked to magically improve quality of life with reduced funding, reduced time, and increased documentation standards.

How can I improve quality of life and participation in meaningful activity while meeting the demands of physicians, employers, and patients? How can I effectively evaluate and provide treatment strategies addressing stability, mobility, falls, confidence, gait, and mobility with my clients in their specific environment?

If these questions are difficult for you to answer, then this innovative, evidence-based course is for you. You’ll learn new perspectives, at least a dozen assessment tools that provide objective data, and over 50 treatment strategies. And…you’ll be engaged and energized.

Trent’s course manual is referred to as a picture book because it includes pictures of deficits, pictures of research results that address the problem (actual pictures, not just words), and then pictures of a therapist using assessments and interventions while working with a patient. Participants LOVE the picture book, and many have told Trent that they attend his course because they’ve seen their colleagues’ picture book.

This course is based on an evolutionary pattern approach in which clinicians are trained to adjust or evolve treatment plans depending on how each individual is responding that day and that minute. You can’t treat all patients, or even all patients dealing with the same deficits, the same way. You must be engaged, contain the skillset, and willing to change your approach depending on what you see in your patient moment to moment.

This course addresses three major areas:

• Re-defining the core using principles of stability and mobility
  Through evidence-based approaches and labs, participants will master movements for stability in all functional planes while re-defining the core in a way that emphasizes individual patient performance. These strategies can be modified for all functional levels. The course will also address dysfunctional posture and contracture development commonly seen with older adults, and participants will learn specific strategies to reduce, remove, or delay these patterns.

• Fall reduction strategies
  Attention will be given to stability and mobility principles as well as external factors, medication management, depression, Hypovitaminosis, vision, and psychological factors often neglected in everyday practice.  In addition, we will review what works and what doesn’t work in fall reduction based on the latest evidence.

• The “Determinants of Gait” and how they impact function, mobility, and quality of life.
  This course will dive into the history of mobility and what is often neglected when we focus solely on physical “phases of gait”. The instructor will provide in-depth analysis on the 6 determinants of gait and reducing energy expenditure using the latest evidence and how to address the 6 determinants increasing function and mobility beyond “gait”.

Trent Brown’s background is unique, which is why he looks at the human body and activities in a different way than most therapists. He was a gymnast, a diver, and an acrobat. These experiences have helped him learn to take a complicated task and break it down for a 9-year-old or a 90-year-old. If you’re looking for fresh ideas and innovative thinking, this course is for you.

And while we’re at it, why not learn how to bill and document the specific strategies learned in the course in a way that meets the requirement of all payor types.  Trent will walk you through specific examples of how to document the interventions in a way that turns documentation into a benefit, not a hindrance.