Online Continuing Education Courses

Interventions for Clients with Movement Limitations

• Appreciate the complexity of motor responses, and discuss methods used to influence body systems and their effects on functional behaviors.
• Outline the differences in recovery related to healing, compensation, substitution, habituation, and adaptation.
• Analyze the similarities and differences among impairment training of specific body systems, functional training, augmented feedback training, and learning-based sensorimotor retraining.
• Select appropriate intervention strategies to optimize desired outcomes.
•  Analyze variables that may both positively and negatively affect complex motor responses and a patient’s ability to participate in functional activities.
•  Identify procedures and sequences required to attain the most successful therapeutic outcome that best meets the needs and goals of the client and the family.
• Consider the contribution of the client, the client’s support systems, research evidence,neurophysiology, and the best practice standards available to optimize outcomes.