This lecture is part of our online Home Study for the Lymphedema Therapy Certification course – if you completed our certification, it will be review for you.
Course Description:
This course provides a detailed overview of the latest research and therapeutic approaches to exercise in the management of patients with lymphedema. This information is essential for any practicing lymphedema therapist because it challenges what many were taught about the presumed need to limit exercise for patients with lymphedema. Jodi Winicour, PT, CLT-LANA, whom many of you know from our Breast Cancer Rehabilitation and Lymphedema Therapy Certification courses, presents the material in an easy-to-follow, engaging manner.
Educational Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Instructional Method: Online/Distance Learning
AOTA Classifications: OT Process: Intervention; Professional Issues – Contemporary Issues & Trends
Klose Training is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. AOTA Provider #6530. This online course is offered at 2.5 CEUs, educational level is introductory/intermediate. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
By engaging with the course, you will:
- Demonstrate knowledge of safe patient specific exercise prescription for those at risk for or those with lymphedema.
- Demonstrate knowledge of specific exercise considerations for patients undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.
- Demonstrate the ability to integrate current research findings into exercise prescription for those with or at risk for lymphedema.
- Demonstrate an awareness of post-operative breast cancer exercise restrictions.
Course access is NOT immediate due to the need to ensure that the prerequisites are met and to allow for hand processing of the order. Upon registration and payment of the course fee, you will be emailed a Student Agreement within 3 business days. Once the Agreement is electronically signed by you and emailed back to Klose Training, a username and password for accessing the online course will be emailed to you within 3 business days. You will have 3 MONTHS of access to the online course from the time the access information is emailed to you.
Jodi Winicour, PT, CMT, CLT-LANA, graduated from Indiana University’s Physical Therapy program in 1993 and received her massage therapy certification in 1997 from Michigan’s Health Enrichment Center. Initially practicing general orthopedic physical therapy at Community Hospital East’s Outpatient Physical Therapy Department in Indianapolis, Indiana, she began specializing in the treatment of cancer patients in 1998 and lectured for the Physical Therapy Department of Indiana University.
Jodi was certified as an MLD/CDT Therapist by Klose Norton Training & Consulting in 1998. She received her CLT-LANA Certification in October, 2001.
In 2000, Jodi joined Cedars Sinai Medical Center where she worked to develop and expand the oncology and lymphedema program in Los Angeles for seven years. Since 2007, she has treated patients with lymphedema, cancer-related dysfunction, and orthopedic issues at Longmont United Hospital in Longmont, Colorado.
In addition to her work as a full-time clinician, Jodi has served as a class instructor for Klose Training & Consulting’s Lymphedema Therapy Certification course since 2000. She is also the author and instructor for one of Klose Training’s most successful continuing education courses, “Breast Cancer Rehabilitation.”
Jodi has taught and presented at courses and conferences across the United States and in Europe on the topics of lymphedema and breast cancer rehabilitation.
This course is an advanced level class. Students should be Certified Lymphedema Therapists or have other specialized training in lymphedema. Students can be physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapist assistants, medical doctors, physician assistants, speech therapists, nurses, nurse practitioners, licensed practical nurses, or massage therapists with sufficient prior training.
NOTE: It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the skills acquired in this class are within their scope of practice.
The total tuition for the course is $70. Please print the
registration form or
register online
The following agreement must be signed and submitted before you begin your course.
Klose Training Student Agreement - Online Courses
This course totals 2.5 contact hours and has been approved for CEUs for Physical and Occupational Therapists by the organizations and states listed
here. Online course hours are also approved for Lymphology Association of North America (LANA) re-certification.
To receive a Certificate of Completion, the student must be a licensed health care professional and watch all video portions of the course, pass an online quiz with a score of 80% or better, and return the required documents specified in the course. The Certificate will then be emailed to the student.
