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- Rehabilitation of Central Nervous System Disorders
- Musculoskeletal Medicine
- Medical Rehabilitation
- Pain-Neuromuscular Medicine Rehabilitation
- Pediatric Rehabilitation
- Essentials of Rehabilitation Practice and Science
Rehabilitation of Central Nervous System Disorders
Disorders of the Brain
- Disorders of the Brain
- Traumatic brain injury
- Pathophysiology, epidemiology early assessment/intervention, prognosis
- Traumatic brain injury
- Cerebrovascular disorders
- Hypoxic
- Metabolic brain injury
- Cerebral neoplasm
Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders
- Traumatic spinal cord disorders
- Spondylotic myelopathy
- Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
- Inflammatory
- Neurodegenerative
- Congenital/myelodysplasia
- Spinal tumors
Immune Mediated and Neurodegenerative Disorders
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Extrapyramidal/movement disorders
- Other extrapyramidal movement disorders
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Complications and Consequences of Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders
- Syndromes of impaired consciousness
- Autonomic and cardiovascular complications
- Pulmonary complications
- Respiratory failure/ventilator management
- Venous thromboembolism
- Genitourinary complications
- Sexuality and reproduction
- Gastrointestinal
- Musculoskeletal complications
- Neurological complications
- Pressure ulcers/integumentary complications
- Sleep disorders
- Hematological, metabolic and endocrine complications
- Hematological, metabolic and endocrine complications
- Electrolyte disorder
- Anemia
- Nutritional disorders
- Hormonal disorders
- Cognitive issues in brain injury and other CNS disorders
- Cognitive issues in brain injury and other CNS disorders
- Memory disorders
- Executive/integrative functions
- Attention disorders
- Perceptual neglect
- Psychological/behavioral issues in CNS disorders
- Substance abuse, mood disorders and behavioral issues in disorders of the CNS
- Agitation/aggression/apathy after brain injury and other CNS disorders
- Pain
- Spinal cord injury – related pain
- Post concussion headache
- Central Poststroke Pain
- Aging with a neurological disability
Musculoskeletal Medicine
Disorders of the Spine
- Cervical
- Thoracic
- Lumbar
- Lumbar disc disorders
- Annular tear
- Discitis
- Lumbar Radiculopathy
- Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbosacral Orthoses
- Lumbar stenosis
- Lumbar spondylosis without myelopathy
- Lumbar zygapophyseal joint arthropathy
- Lumbar spondylolisthesis
- Traumatic
- Congenital
- Pathologic
- Degenerative
- Isthmic
- Lumbar Strain
- Lumbar compression fracture
- Cauda equina syndrome/Conus medullaris syndrome
- Post-laminectomy pain
- Lumbar disc disorders
- Sacral disorders
- Sacroiliac joint disorders
- Sacral insufficiency fractures
- Coccygeal disorders
- Fractures/dislocations
- Coccygodynia
- Vestigial disc pain
- Other spine disorders
- Spine infections
- Vertebral osteomyelitis
- Epidural abscess
- Potts disease
- Adult Degenerative Scoliosis
- Scheuermann’s syndrome
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Seronegative spondyloarthropathy
- Spine infections
- PM&R spine treatments
Disorders of the Upper Limb
- Shoulder
- Rotator Cuff Shoulder Tendon and Muscle Injuries
- Rotator cuff tears
- Muscle tears of the upper limb
- Pectoralis
- Deltoid
- Biceps
- Shoulder fractures, separation/dislocation, and other soft tissue injuries
- Greater tuberosity fractures
- Acromioclavicular joint
- Sprain
- Separation
- Distal osteolysis of the clavicle
- Labral tears
- Shoulder instability, dysfunction and scapular dyskinesis
- Overuse and degenerative disorders
- Rotator cuff tendinopathy and arthropathy
- Calcific tendinopathy
- Biceps tendinopathy
- Osteoarthritis
- Shoulder bursopathies
- Subdeltoid/subacromial
- Subcoracoid/subscapular
- Glenohumeral, acromioclavicular and sternoclavicular arthropathy
- Shoulder neuropathies
- Brachial plexopathy
- Suprascapular nerve entrapment
- Acromioclavicular Joint Disorders
- Rotator Cuff Shoulder Tendon and Muscle Injuries
- Elbow
- Acute elbow injuries and overuse disorders
- Elbow and wrist fracture/dislocation
- Galeazzi
- Monteggia
- Radial head
- Humeroulnar
- Ulnar collateral ligament
- Radial colleteral and annular ligament
- Apophysitis (Little league elbow)
- Humeroulnar osteoarthritis
- Tedinopathies of the elbow
- Distal biceps
- Triceps
- Epicondylosis (medial)
- Epicondylosis (lateral) with and without nerve entrapment
- Olecranon bursitis
- Elbow and wrist fracture/dislocation
- Other elbow disorders
- Osteochronditis syndrome
- Panner’s disease
- Septic arthritis of the elbow
- Elbow flexion contracture
- Osteoid osteoma
- Osteaosarcoma
- Elbow neuropathies
- Pronator and anterior interosseus syndrome
- Ulnar nerve mononeuropathy at the elbow
- Acute elbow injuries and overuse disorders
- Wrist and Hand
- Wrist and hand overuse disorders and arthropathies
- Wrist and hand overuse disorders and arthropathies
- Intersection syndrome
- Carpal metacarpal joint osteoarthritis
- Radioulnar osteoarthriti
- Rheumatoid arthritis affecting the hand
- Psoriatic
- Sjogren’s
- Dupuytren contracture
- Ganglion cyst
- Trigger finger
- Kienbock’s disease
- de Quervain Tenosynovitis
- Tendinopathy
- Therapeutic Injection of Dextrose: Prolotherapy, Perineural Injection Therapy and Hydrodissection
- Neuropathies of the wrist and hand
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Superficial radial neuropathy
- Posterior interosseus neuropathy
- Radial nerve mononeuropathy
- Ulnar nerve mononeuropathy at the wrist
- Sports and occupational injuries to the wrist and hand
- Triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) injury
- Ulnar collateral ligament injury
- Stener lesion
- Scapholunate dissociation
- Fracture
- Scaphoid
- Bennett
- Rolando
- Boxer’s
- Metacarpal bossing
- Volar plate injury
- Extensor mechanism tear (mallet finger)
- Finger flexor tendon tear (jersey finger)
- Skin laceration
- Subungal hematoma
- Wrist and hand overuse disorders and arthropathies
Disorders of the Lower Limb
- Pelvis, hip, and thigh
- Anterior and medial hip sports, occupational, and musculoskeletal disorders
- Sports medicine disorders of the hip: Anterior-Medial
- Adductor strain
- Hip flexor strain
- Iliopsoas tendinopathy and bursopathy
- Sports hernia
- Posterior and lateral hip sports, occupational, and musculoskeletal disorders
- Sports Medicine Disorders of the Hip: Posterolateral
- Gluteal tendinopathy
- Iliotibial band syndrome
- Snapping hip
- Trochanteric bursitis
- Piriformis syndrome
- Proximal and mid-hamstring strain/tendon tear
- Hip and pelvic arthropathies and labral tears
- Hip and pelvic arthropathies and labral tears
- Hip osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Femoral Acetabular Impingement Syndrome
- Osteitis pubis
- Avascular necrosis
- Hip labral tears
- Hip and pelvis neuropathies and plexopathies
- Proximal lower extremity mononeuropathies
- Lumbosacral plexopathy
- Femoral
- Obturator
- Lateral femoral cutaneous
- Sciatic
- Pudendal neuropathy
- Other pelvic and hip disorders
- Stress Fracture of the Hip
- Pelvic floor dysfunction
- Urge incontinence
- Pelvic instability
- Obturator internus
- Levator ani
- Legg Calve Perthe disease
- Congenital hip dysplasia
- Anterior and medial hip sports, occupational, and musculoskeletal disorders
- Knee
- Meniscus injuries of the knee
- Cruciate ligament injuries
- Medial and lateral collateral ligament injuries
- Knee osteoarthritis
- Patellofemoral syndrome
- Knee overuse disorders
- Quadriceps/patellar tendinopathy
- Popliteus tendinopathy
- Tendinopathy
- Prepatellar bursitis
- Pes anserine bursitis and tendinopathy
- Other knee soft tissue disorders
- Quadriceps contusion
- Posterolateral corner knee injuries
- Baker’s cyst
- Medial plica syndrome
- Other knee bone disorders
- Osgood-Schlatter disease and Sinding-Larsen Johansson
- Osteochondritis dessicans
- Tibial stress fracture
- Myositis ossificans of the knee
- Traumatic knee fracture
- Patellar fracture
- Segond fracture
- Maisoneuve fracture
- Patellar subluxation/dislocation
- Septic arthritis of the knee
- Knee neuropathies
- Distal lower extremity mononeuropathies
- Fibular
- Peroneal
- Saphenous
- Tibial
- Tumors that may affect the knee
- Osteoid osteoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Osteochondroma
- Sarcoma
- Ankle and foot
- Ankle and foot overuse disorders
- Tibialis posterior tendon dysfunction
- Retrocalcaneal and malleolar bursitis
- Sever’s disease
- Sinus-tarsi syndrome
- Tendinopathy
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Chronic ankle instability
- Ankle and foot arthropathies
- Ankle joint arthritis
- Club Foot
- Subtalar joint arthritis
- Metatarsalgia and metatarsal phalangeal arthritis
- Leg length discrepancy
- Ankle and foot neuropathies
- Ankle and foot neuropathies & Entrapments
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome and intrinsic neurologic foot disorders
- Calcaneal and plantar neuropathy
- Superficial peroneal neuropathy
- Morton’s neuroma
- Ankle and foot soft tissue injuries and fractures
- Adult Ankle Fractures (ankle and foot soft tissue injuries and fractures)
- Achilles tear
- High ankle sprain, syndesmotic injury
- Stress fractures of the foot
- Lisfranc joint injury
- Spur fracture
- Freiberg’s infraction
- Eversion ankle injury/ankle sprain
- Pes Planus
- Pes Cavus
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Gout and pseudogout
- Ankle and foot overuse disorders
Gender-specific Disorders and Sports Medicine
- Endocrine abnormalities affecting the musculoskeletal system
- Osteopenia and osteoporosis
- Female athlete triad
- Late onset secondary hypogonadism
- Musculoskeletal disorders in pregnancy
- Sarcopenia
- Diabetic athlete
- Other sports medicine medical issues – other (e.g., dermatologic, gastrointestinal, renal, etc.)
- Single organ athlete
- Sports injuries
- Stingers and Burners
- Lower limb exertional compartment syndrome
- The downed runner/collapsed athlete
- Other sports medicine injuries
- Eye injuries
- Orbital fracture/blow out
- Corneal abrasions
- Retinal detachment
- Eyelid laceration
- Dental injuries
- Broken tooth
- Tooth avulsion
- Oral laceration
- Eye injuries
- Skin – facial and hand lacerations
- Thermal regulation (hypo- and hyperthermia)
- Hydration Issues in the Athlete and Exercise Associated Hyponatremia
- Exercise induced anaphylaxis and angiodema
- Concussion
- Cardiopulmonary issues in sports medicine
- Cardiac issues in sports medicine
- Cardiomyopathy
- Arrhythmias
- Mitral valve assessment
- Pulmonary Issues in the Athlete/Exercise Induced Bronchoconstriction
- Special groups
- Sports Medicine for Special Groups
- Down syndrome athlete
- Pregnant athlete
- Part 1 – Issues and management during pregnancy
- Part 2 – Post pregnancy issues including weight loss and post partum
- Shoulder problems/pain in the wheelchair athlete
- Altitude illness and prevention
- Injuries with higher incidence in female athletes
- Sources of plantar pain in sports
Occupational and Industrial Rehabilitation Medicine
- Risk factors and disability
- Persistent disability: risk factors for non-improvement
- Risk factors for occupation and industrial injuries
- Functional rehabilitation
- Functional capacity examinations and impairment ratings
- Life care plans – composition and uses
- Occupational rehabilitation programs
Medical Rehabilitation
Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases
- Cardiac diseases
- Pulmonary disease
- Pulmonary rehabilitation in neuromuscular and other extrinsic restrictive lung diseases
- Prevention and rehabilitation of pulmonary aspiration
- Vascular disease
- Venous disease
- Lymphedema
Amputation and Wounds
- Amputation
- Wounds
Cancer, Organ Transplant and Immune-compromised Patients
- Cancers
- Side effects of treatment (cancer surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy)
- Neuromuscular complications of cancer
- Rehabilitation of specific organ system cancers
- Breast cancer
- Brain tumor
- Bone tumor
- Lung cancer
- Rehabilitation Management of Prostate Cancer
- Gastrointestinal malignancies
- Organ transplantation
Polytrauma, Debility and Burns
Geriatric and Gender-specific Disorders
- Geriatric rehabilitation
- Neurological consequences of aging
- Sarcopenia and geriatric frailty and failure to thrive
- Polypharmacy in the elderly
- Incontinence in the elderly
- Fall Prevention in the Elderly
- Hip fracture
- Vertigo
- Geriatric gait and balance disorders
- Mood disorders in the elderly
- Ethical issues: competency, end of life planning and resource allocation
- Gender-specific disorders
- Pregnancy related complications
Special Topics including Obesity, Infectious Diseases, Vestibular Disorders and Endocrinopathies
- COVID19 Rehabilitation
- Obesity
- Gout and pseudogout
- Endocrine abnormalities affecting the musculoskeletal system
- Human Immune Virus
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Spine infections
- Hearing Impairment
Pain / Neuromuscular Medicine Rehabilitation
Pain Medicine / Chronic Pain
- Central and central nervous system pain states
- Post-stroke pain
- Phantom Pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Pain and Traumatic brain injury
- Peripheral Pain Disorders
- Headache
- Facial-oral pain
- Spinal/paraspinal or cervical/thoracic/lumbosacral pain
- Radiculopathy
- Myofascial pain
- Facet mediated pain
- Sacro-iliac joint pain
- Discogenic pain
- Chest wall pain syndrome
- Post-Mastectomy Pain Syndrome (PMPS)
- Cervical Dystonia
- Abdominal and pelvic pain
- Somatic Abdominal and Pelvic Pain
- Visceral pain: pelvic disorders
- Pelvic/perineal pain
- Limb pain: non-neuropathic
- Vascular
- Ischemic
- Post-phlebitic
- Vascular thoracic outlet
- Compartment syndrome
- Inflammatory Arthritides
- Hemophilia and hemorrhagic arthropathy
- Connective tissue
- Collagen vascular disease
- Congenital hip dysplasia
- Vascular
- Peripheral neuropathic pain
- Acute herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia
- Neuropathy
- Diabetic
- Metabolic
- Approach to peripheral polyneuropathy: evaluation and differential diagnosis
- Approach to peripheral polyneuropathy: treatment
- Toxic
- Alcoholic
- Human immune virus
- Small fiber
- Peripheral nerve tumors
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Autonomically mediated pain/autonomic pain syndromes
- Painful medical diseases
- Neurological diseases
- Human immune virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- Psychological pain components
- Somatiform disorders
- Conversion disorder
- Psychological factors affecting physical disorders
- Part 1: Evaluation and differential diagnosis
- Psychological diagnostic testing in pain disorders
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Hypochondrias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Munchaussen syndrome
- Malingering
- Part 2: A general approach to treatment
- Psychological diagnostic testing in pain disorders
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Hypochondrias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Munchaussen syndrome
- Malingering
- Part 1: Evaluation and differential diagnosis
Neuromuscular Medicine
- Clinical neuromuscular conditions
- Nerve root/radiculopathy
- Anterior horn cell
- Neuromuscular junction
- Electrodiagnostic Studies in Neuromuscular Junction Disorders
- Myasthenia gravis
- Congenital / Acquired
- Neuromuscular Junction Physiology
- Other neuromuscular disorders
- Lambert-Eaton myathenic syndrome
- Toxins
- Infection (botulism)
- Peripheral nerve
- Plexus
- Brachial
- Brachial Plexopathy: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
- Traumatic
- Stingers and Burners
- Neoplastic/paraneoplastic
- Radiation
- Idiopathic
- Compressive/entrapment
- Compressive/entrapment
- Intrinsic compression
- Extrinsic compression
- Perioperative
- Immune mediated
- Parsonage-Turner
- Neuralgic amyotrophy
- Immune Mediated Brachial Plexopathy
- Pediatric Immune Mediated Brachial Plexopathy
- Lumbosacral plexopathy
- Lumbosacral plexopathy and sciatic neuropathy: differential diagnosis and treatment
- Traumatic
- Compressive/entrapment
- Immune mediated
- Neoplastic/paraneoplastic
- Neuromuscular Manifestations of Neoplasms and Paraneoplastic Syndromes
- Diabetic
- Radiation
- Idiopathic
- Brachial
- Upper extremity peripheral nerve injuries
- Upper extremity proximal mononeuropathies
- Accessory
- Long thoracic
- Axillary
- Suprascapular
- Musculocutaneous
- Median nerve mononeuropathies
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Ulnar nerve mononeuropathy
- Radial nerve mononeuropathy
- Radial nerve mononeuropathy
- Humeral level
- Posterior interosseous syndrome
- Radial tunnel syndrome
- Trunk
- Lower extremity peripheral nerve injuries
- Proximal lower extremity mononeuropathies
- Proximal lower extremity mononeuropathies
- Ilioinguinal
- Genitofemoral
- Iliohypograstric
- Lateral femoral cutaneous
- Femoral/saphenous
- Obturator
- Distal lower extremity mononeuropathies
- Distal lower extremity mononeuropathies
- Tibial
- Main trunk
- Fibular (peroneal)
- Sural
- Superficial peroneal differential and diagnosis
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome and intrinsic neurologic foot disorders
- Intrinsic nerve injuries in foot
- Tarsal tunnel
- Morton’s neuroma
- Medial plantar
- Lateral plantar
- Calcaneal nerve
- Mononeuropathy multiplex
- Generalized peripheral nerve disorders
- Inherited
- Autonomic peripheral nerve disorders
- Immune mediated
- Peripheral neuropathies associated with drugs and toxins
- Plexus
- Muscle
- Dystrophies (adolescent and adult onset)
- Adult and Adolescent Onset Muscular Dystrophies Part 1: Evaluation and Diagnosis
- Emery-Dreifuss
- Limb girdle
- Distal
- Facioscapulohumeral
- Scapuloperoneal
- Oculopharyngeal
- Adult and Adolescent Muscular Dystrophies Part 2: Rehabilitation Management and Treatments
- Emery-Dreifuss
- Limb girdle
- Distal
- Facioscapulohumeral
- Scapuloperoneal
- Oculopharyngeal
- Myotonic dystrophy types
- Congenital
- Adult onset
- Adult and Adolescent Onset Muscular Dystrophies Part 1: Evaluation and Diagnosis
- Congenital myopathies
- Metabolic myopathies
- Mitochondrial myopathies
- Inflammatory myopathies
- Dermatomyositis
- Polymyositis
- Inclusion body myositis
- Necrotizing myopathy
- Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
- Myopathy associated with systemic disease
- Endocrine
- Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
- Critical illness
- Critical illness myopathy
- Toxic myopathy
- Dystrophies (adolescent and adult onset)
- Other genetic disorders
- Electrodiagnosis
- Nerve conduction studies
- Needle electromyography
- Electrodiagnostic Studies in Neuromuscular Junction Disorders
- Special techniques in electrodiagnostic medicine
- Special techniques in electrodiagnostic medicine
- Single fiber electromyography
- Autonomic testing
- Quantitative methods in electromyography
- Basic Electrodiagnostics for the Referring Physician
Pediatric Rehabilitation
Neurological Disorders
- Central Neurological – Brain and Spinal Cord
- Congenital
- Cerebral Palsy
- Congenital vascular malformations
- Other congenital metabolic CNS diseases
- Leukodytrophies and hypothyroidism
- Acquired
- Traumatic brain injury
- Vascular malformations of the brain and spine in children
- Pediatric stroke
- Pediatric immune mediated diseases
- Pediatric CNS tumors
- Pediatric neurodegenerative disorders
- Neuro-Behavioral with somatic presentations
- Central Neurological – Spinal Cord
- Congenital
- Spinal dysraphisms
- Myelomeningocele
- Other spinal dysaraphisms
- Lipomeningocele
- Diastermatomyelia
- Caudal regression
- Spinal bifida occulta
- Pediatric syringomyelia
- Genetic conditions
- Tethered cord syndrome
- Acquired
- Traumatic spinal cord injury
- Spinal cord injury without radiological abnormality
- Immune mediated
- Vascular insult
- Diseases of the anterior horn cell in childhood
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Polio
- Poliomyelitis/post-polio syndrome
- Acute Flaccid Myelitis
- Congenital
- Congenital
- Neuromuscular Disorders
- Peripheral nerve
- Plexus
- Brachial plexopathy
- Pediatric Immune Mediated Brachial Plexopathy
- Neonatal Brachial Plexus Injury
- Acquired post-natally
- Traumatic Brachial Plexopathy
- Radiation induced
- Radiation plexopathy
- Tumors
- Lumbosacral brachial plexopathy including:
- Traumatic
- Immunce mediated
- Radiation induced
- Tumors
- Brachial plexopathy
- Nerve
- Other causes of hereditary neuropathy including metabolic/pressure liability
- Approach to peripheral polyneuropathy: evaluation and differential diagnosis
- Approach to peripheral polyneuropathy: treatment
- Hereditary sensory and/or motor neuropathies
- Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies
- Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN)
- Ataxia telangiectasia
- Acquired
- Immune mediated CNS and PNS pediatric diseases neuropathy
- Acute Immune Related Neuropathies
- Acute motor axonal neuropathy
- AIDP/CIDP Part 1: Evaluation and Diagnosis
- HIV in Children and Adolescents
- Pediatric critical illness neuropathy
- Other causes of hereditary neuropathy including metabolic/pressure liability
- Plexus
- Pediatric diseases of the neuromuscular junction
- Toxic
- Tetanus
- Botulism
- Myasthenic Syndromes
- Toxic
- Muscle disorders
- Congenital
- Dystrophies
- Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
- Fascioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
- Congenital muscular dystrophy
- Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy
- Adult and Adolescent Onset Muscular Dystrophies Part 1: Evaluation and Diagnosis
- Adult and Adolescent Muscular Dystrophies Part 2: Rehabilitation Management and Treatments
- Emery Driefuss muscular dystrophy
- Congenital myopathies
- Nemaline rod myopathy
- Central core myopathy
- Myotonic disorders
- Metabolic myopathies
- Pompe’s disease
- McArdle’s disease
- Camitine deficiency
- Tumor-related
- Dystrophies
- Acquired
- Inflammatory
- Pediatric infectious myositis
- Pediatric infectious myositis
- Bacterial myositis
- Parasitic
- Viral and post-viral myositis
- Toxin mediated myositis in children
- Other
- Congenital
- Peripheral nerve
Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Amputation/limb deficiency
- Bone
- Pediatric congenital bone diseases (other)
- Acquired
- Pediatric fractures in developing bone
- Stress
- Greenstick
- Avulsions
- Salter Harris
- Tumors
- Primary bone tumors in children and teens
- Osteogenic sarcoma
- Pediatric fractures in developing bone
- Pediatric Burns
- Thermal
- Electrical
- Lightening strike
- Joint
- Congenital
- Acquired
- Inflammatory
- Atraumatic
- Traumatic joint diseases in children
- Osteochondritis dessicans
- Patellofemoral syndrome in children
- Pediatric hemarthrosis
- Soft Tissue
- Congenital
- Benign joint hypermobile syndrome in children
- Marfan’s syndrome
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Acquired
- Acquired inflammatory diseases of the joint in children
- Bechet’s
- Scleroderma in children
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Children
- Traumatic joint diseases in children
- Pediatric muscle strains
- Pediatric soft tissue sprains
- Pediatric enthesopathies
- Congenital
- Other spinal disorders in children
- Metabolic bone diseases in children
Cancer and Organ Transplantation
Genetic and Developmental Disorders
- Mitochondrial syndromes in children
- Hemophilia in children
- Sickle cell disease
- Down Syndrome
Cardiopulmonary Disorders
- Congenital vascular anomalies
- Acquired cardiopulmonary disorders in children
Pain Disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Complex regional syndromes types 1 and 2
- Adolescent pain disorders
General Essentials of Pediatric Rehabilitation
- Wheelchair and power mobility for Children and Adolescents
- Orthotics
- Prosthetics
- Functional evaluation tools
- Positioning and mobility equipment (non-wheelchair)
Essentials of Rehabilitation Practice and Science
Basic Practice Concepts
- Rehabilitation philosophy
- History of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation teams
- Functional assessment
- Environmental assessment
- Physical environment
- Environmental Assessment
- Interpersonal environment
- Racial Disparities in Access to and Outcomes from Rehabilitation Services
- Conceptual models of disability
- Measurement of Outcomes
Specialized Physiatric Assessment and Management Strategies
- Essentials of Physiatric Assessment and Management Strategies
- Osteopathic Medicine
- Adapting Your Practice During a Pandemic: COVID-19
- Procedures
- Diagnostic
- Physiatric approaches to physical examination
- Neurological examination and classification of SCI
- Cognitive/behavioral/neuropsychological testing
- Specialized musculoskeletal examination
- Spine and neck
- Extremities
- Assessment/determination of spinal stability after spinal compression fractures and spinal cord injury
- Physiological principles underlying electrodiagnosis and neurophysiologic testing
- Imaging
- Physiatric approaches to physical examination
- Principles of pharmalogic treatments
- Injectable agents
- Peripheral agents, soft tissue injections
- Anesthetic agents
- Steroids and Corticosteroids
- Central agents
- Intrathecal Agents
- Other central pumps
- Steroids
- Analgesics
- Non-opioids
- Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Medications
- Anticonvulsants
- Other adjuvant agents
- Opioids
- Non-opioids
- Immune stimulators
- Peripheral agents, soft tissue injections
- Therapeutic Injection of Dextrose: Prolotherapy, Perineural Injection Therapy and Hydrodissection
- Joint injections/aspiration
- Spinal procedures
- Chemodenervation and Neurolysis
- Anticoagulant Pharmacology
- Injectable agents
- Diagnostic
- Physiatric therapeutics
- Exercise
- Exercise prescription and basic principles of therapeutic exercise
- Strengthening
- Flexibility
- Endurance
- Skill aquisition
- Integrative Approaches to Therapeutic Exercise
- Core stabilization
- To support specific athletic skills including injury prevention
- Throwing athletes
- For injured workers including prevention
- To support specific athletic skills including injury prevention
- Alternative and complementary approaches
- Acupuncture
- Biomechanical
- Pilates
- Energy flow
- Tai chi
- Role of exercise in neuromuscular conditions
- Exercise prescription and basic principles of therapeutic exercise
- Therapeutic modalities
- Heat
- Cold
- Electricity
- Manual treatments
- Upper and lower limb orthoses and therapeutic footwear
- Cervico lumbar and spinal orthoses
- Cervical/thoracic
- Lumbosacral/pelvic
- Durable medical equipment that supports activities of daily living, transfers and ambulation
- Environmental evaluation
- Therapeutic massage
- Home/workplace modification
- Universal design
- Ergonomics
- Virtual reality/robotic applications in rehabilitation
- Caregiving training
- Exercise
- Administrative rehabilitation medicine
- Systems based practice
- Rehabilitation team functioning
- Outcome measurement in rehabilitation
- Compliance issues relevant to rehabilitation
- Regulatory and accreditation requirements in rehabilitation
- Resource allocation in rehabilitation
- Pay for performance in rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation levels of care
- Medico-legal considerations / risk management in rehabilitation
- Patient advocacy in rehabilitation
- Communication issues relevant in rehabilitation
- Communication Issues in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Electronic medical record/electronic health record
- Privacy
- Meaningful use
- Medical reconciliation/hand-offs of care
Basic Science Concepts
- Basic skills for assessment of medical literature
- Neurological recovery and regeneration
- Neuromuscular Junction Physiology
- Movement of physiology, biomechanics/kinesiology, and analysis
- Biomechanic of gait and treatment of abnormal gait patterns
- Assessment and treatment of balance impairments
- Energy expenditure during basic mobility and approaches to energy conservation
- Pain and placebo physiology
- Normal aging
- Illness behavior
- Normal development
- Normal childhood and adolescent development
- Psychological and psychosocial development during adulthood
- Developmental transitions
- Child to adult
- Middle age to old age
- Models of learning and behavioral modification in rehabilitation