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Live Webcast

Effective Mindfulness Interventions for Rehab: Improving Outcomes with Relaxation, Breath, & Movement Awareness


Faculty:
ROSS LaBOSSIERE, BS, LPTA, LMT, CYT
Duration:
7 Hours 30 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
VLW020775
Brochure Code:
18600
Media Type:
Live Webcast
Access:
Access for 90 day(s) after program date.

Dates


Description

Maximize Clinical Outcomes Utilizing the Mind-Body Connection

 

Our job as therapists is not only to treat, but to provide tools to support treatment between visits, and to teach preventative maintenance for the future. This hands-on seminar will equip you with techniques and concepts that significantly improve patient (and therapist) mind-body awareness and its application to movement, therapeutic exercise, passive manual techniques, stress reduction, and pain management. Participate in a variety of mindfulness-based strategies and learn how to integrate them into your already existing treatment plans for neuromuscular re-education, therapeutic exercise, and proprioception techniques, adapting all of these to each individual client. By tapping into your own mind-body awareness, you can help patients break the cycle of stress-related patterns that do not always respond well to standard treatment or exercise, or are interfering with their rehabilitative progress. 


 

Course Content

 

the mind-body connection

  • What is mindfulness?
  • Define the mind-body connection
  • Integration into physical rehabilitation
  • Misconceptions about yoga and meditation
  • Evidence-based research

 

ReLAXATION THROUGH BREATH AWARENESS

  • Relationship between stress, tension, and breath
  • Quieting the mind and body
  • Developing a relaxed, rhythmic and diaphragmatic breath
  • Strategies for clinical integration

 

THE RELAXATION RESPONSE TO REDUCE MUSCLE TENSION AND PAIN 

  • Deeper relaxation via the “body scan” technique
  • Improving proprioceptive sensory awareness
  • Identifying and releasing tension
  • Holding patterns of muscles and breath
  • Clinical strategies for pain management
  • Applications to passive manual techniques

 

MOVEMENT AWARENESS TO IMPROVE THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE

  • Understand the patient’s pain and apprehension
  • Relaxation, posture, and body mechanics
  • Basic concepts of myofascial release and the neuromyofascial web

 

Mindful MOVEMENT TO IMPROVE HEP AND SELF-TREATMENT 

  • Synchronizing mind, body, and breath
  • Difference between stretching and releasing
  • Mindful movement routines for the neck and back
  • Examples for a variety of standard therapeutic exercises
  • Adaptive strategies for difficult patients
  • Proprioceptive acupressure/trigger point self-release

 

IMPROVING COMPLIANCE & OUTCOMES

  • Mindfulness in AROM, strength, flexibility, return to activity, and recreation
  • Strategies for self-treatment between visits
  • Taking the “chore” out of Home Exercise Programs
  • Create a supportive space for mind/body integration 

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Faculty

ROSS LaBOSSIERE, BS, LPTA, LMT, CYT Related seminars and products


Ross LaBossiere, BS, LPTA, LMT, CYT, is a licensed physical therapist assistant, licensed massage therapist, and certified yoga instructor/therapist with over 35 years of experience in both clinical and non-clinical settings. Along with his work in clinical outpatient physical therapy, he is the owner/operator of Lifewaves Integrated Therapy (est.1982), a private practice in Rhode Island offering Mind-Body Health Maintenance and Rehabilitation. Ross graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Science in Health/Adapted Physical Education and completed all course work in the graduate program for Exercise Science, with a concentration in Musculo-Skeletal Physiology/Rehabilitation. In conjunction with his 35 years of conducting various workshops and classes in the clinical setting, he also spent over a decade as an independent contractor with BCBSRI/Health and Wellness Institute, providing his mindfulness-based relaxation, stress management, and integrated yoga programs to corporate/worksite settings. He has produced an instructional audio program, Lifewaves Breath Awareness. He is a former member of the American College of Sports Medicine and is a current member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

 

Disclosure:

Financial – Receives a speaking honorarium from Vyne Education.

Nonfinancial – No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.


Target Audience

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapists Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Massage Therapists , Registered Yoga and Movement Instructors, Recreational Therapists, Activity Directors , Nurses, Respiratory Therapists

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Total Reviews: 41

Comments

Tracy K - Galion, Ohio

"Very positive overall - format, cost, and hours earned!"

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