This course builds on the foundations of the original Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Course with a clinical focus on frequent chronic and late effects of BrCa treatments. While the original course primarily presented the acute issues patients deal with during and immediately following their medical treatments, this course targets how to thoroughly evaluate and treat the conditions that breast cancer patients most frequently develop once released from early medical care.
Updates in breast cancer surgeries, plastic surgeries and radiation therapies will be presented to inform the learners how to adjust their therapy plans to ensure safe and personalized patient recovery in the acute and sub-acute timeframes. Therapists will be instructed in neuroscience/neurobiology of pain principles and therapeutic strategies to aide in the prevention and treatment of acute and chronic pain for the breast cancer patient. The late effects of radiation therapy with a focus on tissue adhesions and thoracic outlet syndrome will be taught along with a review of the most recent breast lymphedema data available. Information regarding chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy evidence-based assessment and treatments will also be included along with the importance of exercise and physical activity in patients with breast cancer during their medical treatments and into survivorship.
This intermediate/advanced course will be presented through a combination of lecture, video, patient interview, evaluation, manual therapy, exercise demonstrations and case studies. A detailed step by step evaluation and treatment packet is included with updated home exercise forms to issue to your patients. This course is most appropriate for PTs, OTs, PAs and NPs as a considerable amount of time is spent on evaluation and differential diagnoses of the most common late effects due to BrCa care. COTAs and PTAs may also find it useful.
This course is offered to all physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapist assistants, medical doctors, physician assistants, certified athletic trainers, nurses, nurse practitioners, licensed practical nurses, and massage therapists who have previously successfully completed the original Klose Training Breast Cancer Rehabilitation course.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
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.
This course is offered to all physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapist assistants, medical doctors, physician assistants, certified athletic trainers, nurses, nurse practitioners, licensed practical nurses, and massage therapists who have previously successfully completed the original Klose Training Breast Cancer Rehabilitation course.
NOTE: It is the responsibility of all health professionals to ensure that they work within the limits of their license.
Tuition: $495. Full amount is due upon registration. For our refund and cancellation policy, please refer to the Student Agreement.
This course totals 16 contact hours and has been approved for 16 CE hours for most Physical and Occupational Therapists, and 8 CE hours for Massage 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.
Klose Training is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. PD activity approval ID# 10319. This distance learning- independent activity is offered at 1.6 CEUs, introductory, OT Service Delivery, Foundational Knowledge. AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures.