Modern Nutritional Rehabilitation - Online Certificate Seminar Series

Course overview

The purpose of the three module Nutrition Certification Bundle is to provide rehabilitation professionals knowledge and skills about nutrition concepts, identify dietary-related diseases, counsel patients on dietary concepts, and refer to dietary experts when appropriate. The first module of the course covers topics such as macronutrients, calories, food groups, and daily requirements as it relates to a normal, healthy population. The second module of the course presents an intermediate level of knowledge of nutrition, nutrition assessment, and dietary prescription. Topics will include scope of practice assessment, dietary clinical assessments and problem list creation, and dietary prescription concepts specific for rehabilitation outcomes. The third Module, Special Topics, is to provide rehab professionals with advanced nutrition knowledge and a PT speciality area exposure as it relates to nutrition. Topics for enrollees will include special dietary considerations for pain, arthritis, inflammation, allergies, toxins, clinical nutrition for the lifespan (youth and older adults), the microbiome, athletics, and emerging research on the gut biome. This course is not designed to train the rehab professional to become a dietitian, nor does it replace prudent referral to licensed dietary services. Instructor: Dr. Sean M. Wells, DPT, PT, OCS, ATC/L, CSCS, CNPT, Cert-DN