You must complete Breast Cancer Rehabilitation I before taking this course.
Course Description:
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.
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.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Safely treat patients who have undergone partial mastectomy, tissue rearrangement, breast reduction and/or mastopexy without increasing the risk of surgical disruption of the reconstructed breast.
- Use updated knowledge of new radiation therapy treatment plans for breast cancer to design individualized clinical therapy plans and prospective surveillance.
- Identify subjective clues that lead to special testing and successful treatment for thoracic outlet syndrome, the late effects of radiation therapy, breast edema & breast lymphedema, adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder and postural dysfunction following breast cancer medical treatments.
- Explain the neurobiology of pain for nervous system calming, improved function and pain reduction in the pre and post operative breast cancer therapy settings.
- Recognize the causes of and therapies for chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy.
- Perform appropriate and effective soft-tissue and joint mobilization techniques addressing the late effects of radiation therapy.
- Explain the importance of exercise to address the late and long-term effects of radiation therapy.
- Apply the most up-to-date post breast cancer surgery movement restrictions education.
- Understand and efficiently apply the new exercise handouts included in this course.
- Successfully treat your post mastectomy pain patients in the acute and chronic therapy settings.
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 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 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.
The total tuition for the course is
$495.
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This agreement must be signed and submitted before you begin your course.
Klose Training Student Agreement - Online Courses
This course totals 16 contact hours and has been approved for CEUs for most Physical, Occupational, and 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.
