2024 APTA Alaska Fall Conference
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2024 APTA ALASKA FALL CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 12-13, 2024
Alyeska Resort, Girdwood, AK
Topic: A LIFE COURSE APPROACH TO LOWER EXTREMITY OA MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION
Registration information coming soon.
SPEAKER:
Daniel Pinto,PT, DPT, PhD, OCS, FAAOMPT
A TOTAL OF 14 CONTACT HOURS
HOTEL INFORMATION
The Hotel Alyeska – Girdwood, AK
1000 Arlberg Avenue
Girdwood, AK 99587
METHOD OF RESERVATIONS: Reservations for the Event will be made by individual attendees directly with our in-house reservations team at 907-754-2111 or 1-800-880-3880.
Mention: Alaska Physical Therapy Association
GROUP RATE: $189 Per Night Plus Tax & $25 Per Night Resort Fee
RESERVATION DEADLINE: SEPT. 11
A LIFE COURSE APPROACH TO LOWER EXTREMITY OA MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION
Course Description
The global burden of disease has shifted from communicable to non-communicable diseases due to advances in medicine, and lower extremity osteoarthritis has emerged as a main contributor to disease burden worldwide. Physical Therapists can play a pivotal role in promoting injury prevention strategies that will decrease sport injuries, managing people with osteoarthritis, and promoting evidence-based self-management strategies for preventing and managing injuries. This course will take a whole disease and life-course approach to managing lower extremity OA. The course will be a combination of lecture, lab, and case presentation.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will:
- Explain OA pathophysiology as a ‘whole joint’ phenomenon, risk factors for lower extremity OA with a focus on knee OA, and the burden of lower extremity OA on individuals and society.
- Identify evidence-based, non-pharmacological approaches to managing knee OA and will be able to identify OA management guidelines from the American College of Rheumatology and American College of Orthopaedic Surgeons (endorsed by APTA).
- Explain and practice the assessment of important elements of the clinical examination including common gait abnormalities, the importance of regional interdependence, rapid manual therapy approaches to rule in/out structures for intervention, and assessment of findings through the lens of clinical phenotyping.
- Explain optimal intervention exercise prescription, adjunctive therapies, and manual techniques used in clinical trials for management of hip and knee OA. Learners will practice examination and manual therapy techniques.
- Learners will be able to explain the various points of intervention across the lifespan, technologies currently available to support engagement of populations across the lifespan, and practice behavioral strategies for supporting self-management of chronic conditions such as knee OA.
About the Speaker
Dr. Pinto received a dual degree B.S. in Health Sciences and M.S. in Physical Therapy from Touro College (2002), completed orthopedic physical therapy residency training at the University of Wisconsin (2004), a transitional DPT (2007) and Fellowship training in Manual Physical Therapy at Regis University (2008). He completed a PhD in 2012 at the University of Otago, New Zealand with a focus in trial-based economic analysis. From 2014-2016, Dr. Pinto received K12 faculty development training using conjoint analysis (PI: Dave Cella, PhD, AHRQ).
In 2015, he received the European Society for the Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO) Fellowship Award. In 2016 Dr. Pinto was awarded a CoHSTAR faculty fellowship and trained in the conduct of Behavioral Clinical Trials at the NHLBI. In 2020 he received ESCEO-IOF (International Osteoporosis Foundation) Pierre Meunier Young Investigator Award.
Dr. Pinto is on the steering committee for the osteoarthritis action alliance (OAAA), he serves as co-Chair for the IOF Rehabilitation Working group, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for ESCEO and the Committee of Scientific Advisors for the IOF. Dr. Pinto’s research interest is in applying to rehabilitation the diverse methodological approaches that make up the Science of Judgement and Decision Making. He directs the BEhTA lab at Marquette University.
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