PT PAC Event- Cancelled: Manual Lymphatic Skills for Orthopedic Edema 

Posted: August 25, 2017

When: The event is being rescheduled for the Spring.

Where: Regis University, Peter Claver Hall- Room 409

Target audience: PTs, PTAs, OTs, COTAs, MTs.

8 hours of Category I Professional Development Activity

Description: Inflammatory edema is a key issue for orthopedic and sports therapists to manage efficiently and comfortably in order to facilitate recovery and healing. This one day course will teach therapists without a lymphedema background to safely assess and treat patients with inflammatory edema using manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) techniques. Treatment of upper and lower extremity edema issues associated with common orthopedic and sports injuries of the major joints and hand will be covered. The differing types of edema, anatomy and physiology of the lymphatic system, history and evidence of MLD, differential diagnoses, and MLD techniques/patterns will be taught and practiced and case studies presented and reviewed.