Conservative Management of Pediatric Equinus Deformity – Part 2: Labs with Serial Casting
This practice-changing lab course is scheduled for January 3-5, 2025, in Denver, Colorado.
Lab Course Prerequisite: Successful completion of the online course, Development and Conservative Management of Pediatric Equinus Deformity - Part 1.
Lab Enrollment—Days 1 and 2: Limited to six didactic course alumni who passed all the exams and who are prepared to use the new assessment and orthotic modification skills in practice. With that consideration, labs will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis and feature supervised trials of ankle and foot assessment procedures with findings applied to modifications of an insole or orthosis undertaken to optimize foot alignment.
Lab Enrollment—Day 3: Limited to six lab course participants who are prepared to use the new cast fabrication and posting skills in practice. With that consideration, this lab will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Orthotic optimization principles and methods will be implemented in the fabrication and biomechanical optimization of a below-knee cast that is made to be removed without a motorized cutter.
Level: Intermediate. Pre-course review materials are assigned to enhance learning. Lab sessions will proceed upon the assumption that pre-course review materials are completed.
In addition to all necessary assessment tools and casting and posting materials, pre-lab assessment videos will be provided.
Billi Cusick, PT, MS, NDT, COF/BOC, is an internationally known pediatric physical therapist whose specialty is the orthopedic development and orthotic management of children with cerebral palsy and other neuromotor deficits.
She has been teaching these and related topics since 1978, including presentations by invitation for the APTA, AACPDM, AOPA, and AAOP and more than 460 full programs and workshops worldwide.
Billi received her BS in PT from Bouve College at Northeastern University in Boston, MA in 1972, and her MS in Clinical and College Teaching for Allied Health Professionals from the University of Kentucky in Lexington in 1988. She is an Associate Professor for the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions – Pediatrics Program – Provo, Utah (2006-present) and is NDT basic- and baby-trained.
PHYSICAL THERAPISTS: This lab is approved for 22 contact hours — which are accepted for PT continuing education credits in over 40 states via Redefine Health Education. For a list of states that accept these CEUs and information about obtaining them in those that do not, please visit Redefine Health Education's website.
*If you are an assistant and interested in taking this lab, please contact us.
ORTHOTISTS and PROSTHETISTS: This course has been approved for 22.25 scientific credits by ABC.
1230 S Parker Road
Suite 101
Denver, CO 80231
January 3-5, 2025
Start and End Times TBD
Lab Agenda Coming Soon
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