Lymphedema Certification and Online Education

Breast Cancer Rehabilitation II

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.

AOTA 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.

Course Objectives:

Course Access:

Instructor:

Prerequisites:

Registration/Tuition:

Student Agreement:

Certificate of Completion/Continuing Education Units (CEUs):

REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE