Total Hip, Total Knee, Hip Fracture: Newest Clinical Findings

Course overview

Learn the latest clinical findings on Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty and Hip Fracture. This course combines the medical, surgical, and rehabilitative expertise of a nationally known, highly trained physical therapist who has over 40 years of experience in Vanderbilt's world renowned trauma and orthopedic joint replacement center. The rich combination of vast clinical expertise and evidence based practice provides participants with a unique opportunity to see the entire spectrum of care for the patient from the pre-operative phase through the entire rehabilitative program. This course presents biomechanics of the lower extremities with discussion of surgical techniques for hip and knee arthroplasty as well as hip fracture. Clinical practice guidelines, treatment techniques, and rehabilitation interventions will be presented for these surgeries. Pre-operative, acute care and post-discharge concerns will be addressed and examples of a precise therapeutic exercise programs within all clinical settings will be discussed and demonstrated with an older model patient. The latest suggested treatments strategies, sample home exercise instruction sheets and home exercise programs along with evaluation and treatment guidelines will be given, thus providing therapist with information to improve their clinical practice with patients who have sustained a total hip or knee arthroplasty and or a hip fracture.