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Live Webcast

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


Faculty:
Betsy Shandalov, OTR/L, RYT, CYKT,
Duration:
7 Hours 30 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
VLW020013
Brochure Code:
17663
Media Type:
Live Webcast
Access:
Access for 90 day(s) after program date.

Dates


Description

Yoga is becoming increasingly popular as a mainstream, western discipline, but its clinical therapeutic applications are relatively unknown to most rehabilitation clinicians. This seminar is specifically designed for you, the therapist! You will expand your therapeutic repertoire, as well as improving client functions with the incorporation of yoga into a vast array of clinical settings. This material is highly useful for both adult and pediatric clients, and it can even be used to assist with pain management too. Yoga therapy will even help the clients you struggle most to help!

 

Yoga for Therapeutic Rehabilitation taps into your knowledge of anatomy and physiology (not to mention psychology) in order to enhance treatment plans for clients who suffer from multiple sclerosis, cancer, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, and many other orthopedic and neurological disorders. Participants will learn new and 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 breakout sessions, during which you will practice techniques to maximize function for clients in a wide array of settings. By incorporating yoga into your therapeutic practice, you will begin to see healthcare in a whole new way. Do not miss this exciting opportunity to bring yoga as a treatment modality to your clients.

 

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

 


 

Course Content

 

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
  • Define Ayurveda and it’s compliment to Yoga
  • Neuroplasticity of the brain and eye, and brain exercises for adults and kids
  • Polyvagal Theory and stress responses
  • The Nervous System and pain control
  • How yoga comforts our pain clients

ANATOMY OF THERAPEUTIC YOGA: CARDIOPULMONARY SYSTEM

  • The 3 Diaphragms
  • Review Pulmonary anatomy (case study)
  • Lower cardiovascular risks (cholesterol levels, blood sugars, stress hormones)
  • Poses can be energizing or calming
  • Evaluation of breathing
  • Proper breathing and its benefits
  • Define, Inhalation, Exhalation, Holding and Suspension
  • Connection between breathing and movement
  • Basic Pranayama
  • Therapeutic Breathing exercises for adults and kids
  • Therapeutic Breathing by diagnosis
  • Posture and Breathing
  • Define breathing in a wide variety of positions
    • Upright
    • Side-lying in bed
    • Wheelchair
    • Standing
  • Case studies and group practice of pranayama, seated and standing pose demo

ANATOMY OF THERAPEUTIC YOGA: MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

  • Define Asana
  • Posture and nerve and muscle communication
  • Anatomy of shoulder, hip joints
  • Opening the joint door: muscle and body balance
  • Movement: part of the body moved, direction of the movement and position of the body
  • Asana and Diagnosis
  • Dissecting the mechanics of movement
    • Spasticity
    • Hypotonicity
    • muscle imbalance
  • Yoga as medicine for adults and kids from dependent clients to active clients

ASANA APPLICATION & TREATMENT

  • Asana Poses
  • Active vs. Restorative poses, how to decide for your client
  • Developing strength, flexibility and alignment
  • Importance of twists
  • Props: How to use straps, blocks, balls in treatment in active poses
  • Props: How to use bolsters, blankets, straps and eye pillows for restoration
  • Case studies in a variety of settings from hospitals to schools
  • Precautions
  • Importance of position in poses
  • Case studies of adults and kids using props prone, supine and in wheelchair

POSE LAB & CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS

  • Perform Active Poses
  • Perform 1 Restorative Pose and experience it’s benefits for all body systems
  • Examine 5 different case studies and determine what poses are best for your clients
  • Understand therapeutic benefits and contraindications
  • What props do you use and why

YOGA & EXPANDING CLIENT TREATMENT

  • In your setting: acute care, inpatient, outpatient, home health and hospice
  • Empowering your client to have an active role in treatment
  • Yoga throughout the lifespan
  • Evaluation, Documentation and CPT codes
  • Recent studies in medicine and yoga

MARKETING, YOGA & YOU

  • Yoga and it’s future in healthcare
  • Yoga and the Integrative team
  • How to become a yoga therapist
  • Yoga and community

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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 Period for Live Webcast For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


Target Audience

Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Massage Therapists , Exercise Physiologists, Personal Trainers, Athletic Trainers, Activity Directors, Recreational Therapists

Reviews

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Overall:      4.5

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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