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Digital Seminar

Yoga for Therapeutic Rehabilitation: Learning new tools & expanding your practice


Faculty:
Betsy Shandalov, OTR/L, RYT, CYKT,
Duration:
6 Hours 06 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Mar 19, 2018
Product Code:
WDS020013
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.

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Description

Yoga Applications across the Lifespan

Yoga has become increasingly popular in the western mainstream world these days, but its therapeutic applications are relatively unknown to most rehabilitation clinicians. This recording is specifically designed for therapists! You will expand your therapeutic repertoire and improve client functions through incorporating yoga in nearly any setting. This material is highly useful for both adult and pediatric clients, and it can be used to assist with pain management too. In fact, yoga therapy can be used with the clients therapists struggle most to help!

Yoga for Therapeutic Rehabilitation will tap into your knowledge of anatomy and physiology (not to mention a little psychology) in order to enhance treatment plans for clients with issues ranging from multiple sclerosis and cancer to cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, and many orthopedic and neurological disorders. You will discover innovative ways to use props and equipment to assist their clients' therapeutic outcomes. You will have the opportunity to problem-solve and apply what you learn in group breakout sessions in which you will discover ways to maximize function using yoga postures for clients in a wide array of settings. By incorporating yoga into your therapeutic practice, you will begin to see health care in a whole new, expanded way. Do not miss this exciting opportunity to bring yoga as a treatment modality to your clients.

This recording is designed for people of all skill levels. Participants do not need to be experienced with yoga to be able to watch this recording or integrate its benefits with clients!

Credits


Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants - Florida

is an approved provider #50-466 with the Florida Department of Health Board of Occupational Therapy Practice. This course is approved for 6 contact hour(s) for Occupational Therapist and Occupational Therapy Assistants.


Other Professions

This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hour(s) as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements. 


Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - Illinois

is a Registered Physical Therapy Continuing Education Sponsor through the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #:216.000309. This course qualifies for 6 CE Credit Hour(s).


Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants

This educational offering consists of 6 clock hour(s) of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this offering and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - New York

is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Physical Therapy as an approved provider for physical therapy and physical therapist assistant continuing education. This seminar is awarded 7.2 contact hour(s).


Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - North Carolina

NCBPTE approval by virtue of approval by The New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions, State Board for Physical Therapy licensure board or state APTA chapter Approval good through 8/31/2021. This course qualifies for 6 continuing education hours. 



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Faculty

Betsy Shandalov, OTR/L, RYT, CYKT, Related seminars and products


BETSY SHANDALOV, OTR/L, RYT, CYKT, has been an Occupational Therapist since 1992. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from Boston University. She has worked in adult acute care at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. She also has worked in rehabilitation and community re-entry at Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia, as a clinician, educator and supervisor. Ms. Shandalov has presented on multiple topics at the collegiate level to both undergraduate and graduate students in occupational therapy around the country. She moved to California and got her 200-hour adult yoga teacher training with a focus on Iyengar yoga. She also received her certification as a yoga kids teacher and trainer with Yoga Kids International. She now teaches Therapeutic Yoga to adults and kids in a variety of health care settings and treats people privately using yoga as her main therapeutic modality. She lectures at wellness events and promotes yoga as an untapped therapeutic modality in healing an existing injury and for injury prevention.

In her practice, Ms. Shandalov draws from yoga's ancient philosophy of incorporating body, mind, and spirit. She sees adults and kids with all ranges of diagnoses. Some are acutely ill and others have long standing disabilities or injuries. Ms. Shandalov uses her knowledge of western medicine to incorporate an integrative medicine approach. Her extensive knowledge of disease and disability in a variety of settings combines with her complementary yoga treatment to provide a new level of understanding of how the brain and the immune system can work together for natural and therapeutic healing.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive) Access never expires for this product.

Target Audience

Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists, Athletic Trainers, Social Workers, Activity Directors, Recreational Therapists

Objectives

  1. Discover how yoga can enhance the muscular, nervous, and cognitive systems for both pediatric and adult clients.
  2. Practice restorative and active poses, outlining what props to use for various poses and why.
  3. Describe how yogic breathing can influence pulmonary and immune systems.
  4. Convey how yoga therapy is able to alleviate pain.
  5. Cite ways that yoga can provide therapeutic benefits to improve muscular and joint stability.
  6. Explain the difference between active and restorative poses and list the therapeutic benefits of each.
  7. Correctly determine how to position a client with a disability using restorative poses.
  8. Identify how positioning and pranayama can improve your clients' overall wellness.
  9. Demonstrate how to use basic yoga poses, sequences, and deep relaxation using props for modification depending on client's diagnosis.
  10. Create customized client treatment plans that incorporate yoga.

Outline

Why Yoga as a Therapeutic Modality?
  • What is yoga?
  • Understand Integrative Medicine
  • Review body systems and how they work together
  • Understand types of yoga and how yoga therapy aids body systems
  • Neuroplasticity of the brain and eye, and brain exercises for adults and kids
  • The Nervous System and pain control
  • How yoga comforts pain clients
Anatomy of Therapeutic Yoga: Cardiopulmonary System
  • Review pulmonary anatomy (case study)
  • Proper breathing and its benefits
  • Types of pranayama
  • Breathing exercises
  • Therapeutic breathing and your adults and kids
  • When to use pranayama for adults and kids
  • Define breathing and positioning
    • upright
    • side-lying in bed
    • wheelchair
    • standing
  • Case study with group practice of pranayama, seated and standing pose demo
Anatomy of Therapeutic Yoga: Musculoskeletal System
  • Posture and nerve and muscle communication
  • Anatomy of the shoulder and hip joints
  • Opening the joint door: muscle and body balance
  • Practical applications for diagnoses
  • Secondary disabilities and their consequences, dissecting the mechanics of movement
    • spasticity
    • hypotonicity
    • muscle imbalance
  • Yoga as medicine for adults and kids from dependent clients to active clients
Asana Application and Treatment
  • Asana poses
  • The science of restorative vs. active poses and the body's response
  • Decide between restorative vs. active poses for treatment
  • Case studies in a variety of settings from hospitals to schools
  • Perform active poses
Poses: Props and Our Patients
  • Perform restorative poses
  • How do resting poses help clients with disabilities? (client with cancer case study)
  • The importance of elongation and extension of the body and how props assist your clients
  • Pictures of supported and active yoga poses for clients with a variety of disabilities
  • Props for therapeutic use with spasticity, abnormal tone, weakness, or imbalance
  • How do you decide if your client needs resting or active poses and how much?
  • Is the client prone, supine, or in a wheelchair?
Pose Lab and Case Study Presentations
  • Practice poses and experience the therapeutic benefits of a restorative pose vs. an active pose
  • Using props through visuals and poses
  • Examine 5 different case studies and determine what poses are best for your clients
  • Therapeutic benefits of each pose for each diagnosis and their contraindications
  • What props to use for each pose and why
Yoga and Expanding Client Treatment
  • In your setting: acute care, inpatient, outpatient, home health, and hospice
  • Throughout the lifespan
  • Giving the client a gift in the community
  • Recent studies in medicine and yoga
  • Yoga and its future in health care
  • Yoga and the Integrative Medicine team
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Total Reviews: 202

Comments

SEWDAYE M - WINDSOR, California

"Wonderful course, I appreciated the time to be able to participate and experience all the techniques myself. "

Geri H - Ontonagon, Michigan

"she was VERY good"

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