California Children’s Services Certified TheraTogs Fitter Labs
Please note: Certified TheraTogs Fitter - 1 Lab is a prerequisite for Certified TheraTogs Fitter - 2 Lab.
And to enroll in Lab 2, you must have successfully completed both on-demand courses.
Certified TheraTogs Fitter - 1 Lab // For Physical Therapists and Assistants, Occupational Therapists and Assistants, and Orthotists
Measure thoracic and pelvic alignment and don TheraTogs garments and strapping to optimize sagittal-plane posture and bodyweight loading on the feet.
Upon successful completion of the lab, you'll receive a Certified TheraTogs Fitter - 1 credential within two weeks.
Certified TheraTogs Fitter - 2 Lab // For Physical Therapists and Assistants and Orthotists
Measure hip rotation and femoral torsion, and don TheraTogs garments and strapping to address pelvic retraction; enhance stance-phase stability; and reduce in-toe and out-toe gait due to proximal factors.
Upon successful completion of the lab, you'll receive a Certified TheraTogs Fitter - 2 credential within two weeks.
Please note: Certified TheraTogs Fitter - 1 Lab is a prerequisite for Certified TheraTogs Fitter - 2 Lab. And to enroll in Lab 2, you must have successfully completed both on-demand courses.
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Personal access to TheraTogs password-protected Clinician Center website, where you can access discount links for online training, how-to videos, technical and research updates, online conversations with Clinical Support and your fellow clinicians… and much more!
→ Learn What You Don’t Know
For instance, the importance of pediatric postural alignment and the developmental causes of common gait issues.
→ Increase Your Confidence
Our hands-on lab certification program gives you a leg up when using and recommending TheraTogs.
→ Improve Your Families’ Compliance
When you're more confident in your use of TheraTogs, it's easier to teach the caretaker and improve the family’s confidence and compliance in using the system.
→ New Client Referral Engine
Caretakers and clinicians often ask the staff at TheraTogs, Inc. to find clinicians who understand and use TheraTogs in their practice. TheraTogs includes a map of Certified TheraTogs Fitters under their Find a Certified TheraTogs Fitter.
→ Earn CEUs for Your License Renewal
All Certified TheraTogs Fitter courses are approved for CEUs for physical therapists and assistants and orthotists. If you are an occupational therapist or an assistant, you can earn CEUs for the CTF - Level 1 Lab, only.
→ Contribute to New Product Development
TheraTogs may call on you to participate in occasional field trials of new TheraTogs designs and materials.
After you enroll in one or both CTF labs, we'll contact you via email about your TheraTogs garment size options. We'll send your selected garment to the lab location for you to use during the lab.
In addition, we'll provide assessment tools for your lab use.
Pia Stampe, PT, DPT has been a physical therapist for over 40 years. She received her physical therapy degree from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and her Doctoral degree in physical therapy from AT Still University.
Pia was the founder of KeytoCP and Step by Step Developmental Services, a pediatric therapy program, in Rochester, New York. She developed a systematic approach to treatment of children and teens with cerebral palsy and related neurological disorders.
Pia has extensive teaching experience having taught therapist workshops about the KeytoCP approach as well as about sEMG Biofeedback in many countries. She is now retired from her clinic in New York and works as a consultant and teacher for teams working with children with cerebral palsy.
Her special interests include biomechanical alignment as the foundation for movement and the use of technologies such as sEMG Biofeedback, NMES, FES and Transcutaneus Spinal Neuromodulation.
For Certified TheraTogs Fitter - Level 1 Lab CEU details, follow this link.
For Certified TheraTogs Fitter - Level 2 Lab CEU details, follow this link.
Given its focus on lower extremity issues and applications, the TheraTogs Fitter – 2 Lab is not approved for OT CEUs, but interested OT’s are welcome to attend.
August 24, 2024
8 a.m.
Glen Paul Medical Therapy Unit
2501 Cypress Ave.
Eureka, CA 95503
August 25, 2024
8 a.m.
Glen Paul Medical Therapy Unit
2501 Cypress Ave.
Eureka, CA 95503
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