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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

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Rehabilitation of Central Nervous System Disorders

Disorders of the Brain

• Disorders of the Brain
  • Traumatic brain injury
    • Pathophysiology, epidemiology early assessment/intervention, prognosis
      1. Traumatic Brain Injury
      2. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)
• Cerebrovascular disorders
  • Cerebrovascular disorders
    • Cerebrovascular Disorders Part 1 (Disease/Disorder, Principles of Assessment)
    • Cerebrovascular Disorders Part 2 (Management and Treatment, Cutting Edge concepts, Gaps in evidence)
    • Natural Recovery and Regeneration of the Central Nervous System
    • Pediatric stroke
• Hypoxic
  • Metabolic brain injury
    • Hypoxic brain injury
    • Pediatric anoxic brain injury
    • Metabolic encephalopathies
• Cerebral neoplasm
  • Cerebral neoplasms
  • Pediatric brain tumor
  • Infectious encephalopathies and leukoencephalopathies

Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders

• Traumatic spinal cord disorders
  • SCI Traumatic
    • SCI Traumatic: Part 1 (Disease/Disorder, Essentials of Assessment)
    • SCI Traumatic: Part 2 (Management and Treatment, Cutting edge concepts in practice, Gaps in evidence based knowledge)
  • Non-traumatic myelopathies
• Spondylotic myelopathy
  • Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
  • Inflammatory
    • Transverse Myelitis
    • Multiple sclerosis (including transverse myelitis)
  • Neurodegenerative
    • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
    • Infectious disorders of the spinal cord
  • Congenital/myelodysplasia
    • Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
    • Myelomeningocele (Spina Bifida)
    • Tethered Cord Syndrome
    • Syringomyelia
    • Metabolic/Nutritional/Toxic/Radiation myelopathies
    • Vascular Myelopathy
  • Spinal tumors
    • Spinal tumors
    • Pediatric spinal cord tumors

Immune Mediated and Neurodegenerative Disorders

• Multiple Sclerosis
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Multiple sclerosis (including transverse myelitis)
• Extrapyramidal/movement disorders
  • Idiopathic Parkinson Disease
• Other extrapyramidal movement disorders
  • Other extrapyramidal movement disorders
  • Freidreich’s ataxia
  • Hyperkinetic movement disorders (including dystonias, choreas)
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Complications and Consequences of Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders

• Syndromes of impaired consciousness
  • Disorders of Consciousness
• Autonomic and cardiovascular complications
  • Autonomic Dysreflexia in Spinal Cord Injury
  • Orthostatic Hypotension in SCI
  • Impaired thermoregulation
  • Cerebrally Mediated Autonomic Dysfunction
• Pulmonary complications
  • Respiratory failure/ventilator management
    • Respiratory impairment in SCI
    • Pulmonary rehabilitation after ventilatory failure
• Venous thromboembolism
  • Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)
• Genitourinary complications
  • Neurogenic Bladder
• Sexuality and reproduction
  • Sexual Dysfunction in Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
  • Sexuality and reproduction after SCI
• Gastrointestinal
  • Dysphagia
    • Disorders of Language, Speech and Swallowing
    • Other upper gastro-intestinal problems in disorders of the CNS (excluding dysphagia)
  • Neurogenic Bowel
• Musculoskeletal complications
  • Overuse injuries in disorders of the central nervous system
  • Heterotopic ossifications
  • Contractures
    • Osteoporosis and fractures after CNS injury
• Neurological complications
  • Spasticity
  • Seizures and epilepsy
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Post-traumatic syringomyelia
  • Cranial nerve, visual and hearing dysfunction in disorders of the CNS
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Vestibular dysfunction (after brain injury)
  • Disorders of Language, Speech and Swallowing
• Pressure ulcers/integumentary complications
  • Pressure Ulcer Management
• Sleep disorders
  • Sleep disorders in diseases of the central nervous system
• 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

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Musculoskeletal Medicine

Disorders of the Spine

• Cervical
  • Cervical Radiculopathy
  • Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbosacral Orthoses
  • Cervical stenosis
  • Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
  • Torticollis
  • Cervical Whiplash
  • Inflammatory Arthritides
• Thoracic
  • Thoracic radiculopathy/myelopathy
  • Cervical and Thoracic Zygapophsial joint arthropathy
  • Thoracic outlet syndrome
  • Compression Fractures of the Spine
  • Costochondritis
  • Chest wall pain syndrome
• 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
    • Compression Fractures of the Spine
  • Cauda equina syndrome/Conus medullaris syndrome
  • Post-laminectomy pain
• Sacral disorders
  • Sacroiliac joint disorders
    • Inflammatory Arthritides
  • Sacral insufficiency fractures
• Coccygeal disorders
  • Fractures/dislocations
  • Coccygodynia
  • Vestigial disc pain
• Other spine disorders
  • Spine infections
    • Vertebral osteomyelitis
    • Epidural abscess
    • Potts disease
  • Scoliosis
  • Neurogenic Scoliosis
  • Scheuermann’s syndrome
  • Ankylosing spondylitis
    • Inflammatory Arthritides
  • Seronegative spondyloarthropathy
    • Inflammatory Arthritides
• PM＆R spine treatments
  • Core Strengthening
  • Role of Manual Therapies in Musculoskeletal Disorders

Disorders of the Upper Limb

• Shoulder
  • Shoulder tendon and muscle injuries
    • Rotator cuff tears
    • Muscle tears of the upper limb
      1. Pectoralis
      2. Deltoid
      3. Biceps
  • Shoulder fractures, separation/dislocation, and other soft tissue injuries
    • Greater tuberosity fractures
    • Acromioclavicular joint
      1. Sprain
      2. Separation
      3. 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
    • Shoulder bursopathies
      • Subdeltoid/subacromial
      • Subcoracoid/subscapular
    • Glenohumeral, acromioclavicular and sternoclavicular arthropathy
      • Adhesive capsulitis
      • Impingement Syndromes of the Shoulder
      • Shoulder pain in the throwing athlete
  • Shoulder neuropathies
    • Brachial plexopathy
    • Suprascapular nerve entrapment
• Elbow
  • Acute elbow injuries and overuse disorders
    • Elbow and wrist fracture/dislocation
      1. Galeazzi
      2. Monteggia
      3. Radial head
      4. Humeroulnar
    • Ulnar collateral ligament
    • Radial colleteral and annular ligament
    • Apophysitis (Little league elbow)
      1. Elbow Pain in Little League Pitcher’s Elbow
      2. Tendinopathy
    • Humeroulnar osteoarthritis
    • Tedinopathies of the elbow
      1. Distal biceps
      2. Triceps
      3. Epicondylosis (medial)
      4. Epicondylosis (lateral) with and without nerve entrapment
      5. Olecranon bursitis
         1. Tendinopathy
  • 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
• 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
  • 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

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
    • Femoral acetabular 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
• Knee
  • Meniscus injuries of the knee
  • Cruciate ligament injuries
    • ACL Injury and Rehabilitation
    • Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injuries
  • Medial and lateral collateral ligament injuries
  • Knee osteoarthritis
    • Osteoarthritis
    • 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
      • Ankle Sprain
  • Pes planus/cavus
  • Plantar Fasciitis
  • Gout and pseudogout

Gender-specific Disorders and Sports Medicine

• Endocrine abnormalities affecting the musculoskeletal system
  • Osteopenia and osteoporosis
    • Osteoporosis in Rehabilitation
    • Osteogenesis Imperfecta
  • Female athlete triad
  • Late onset secondary hypogonadism
  • Musculoskeletal disorders in pregnancy
    • Pregnant Athlete
  • 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
    • Downed runner
  • Other sports medicine injuries
    • Eye injuries
      1. Orbital fracture/blow out
      2. Corneal abrasions
      3. Retinal detachment
      4. Eyelid laceration
    • Dental injuries
      1. Broken tooth
      2. Tooth avulsion
      3. Oral laceration
  • 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
    • Sports Concussion
• Cardiopulmonary issues in sports medicine
  • Cardiac issues in sports medicine
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Arrhythmias
  • Mitral valve assessment
  • Pulmonary issues in the athlete/Exercise induced asthma
  • Special groups
• Sports Medicine for Special Groups
  • Down syndrome athlete
  • Pregnant athlete
  • Part 1 – Issues and management during pregnancy
    • Pregnant Athlete
  • Part 2 – Post pregnancy issues including weight loss and post partum
    • Pregnancy related complications
  • Shoulder problems/pain in the wheelchair athlete
  • Altitude illness and prevention
  • Injuries with higher incidence in female athletes
  • Sources of plantar pain in sports
    • Plantar Fasciitis

Occupational and Industrial Rehabilitation Medicine

• Risk factors and disability
  • Return to work after MSK injury in the workplace: factors leading to timely return and risk factors for delayed return
• 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

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Medical Rehabilitation

Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases

• Cardiac diseases
  • Cardiac rehabilitation before and after cardiac transplantation
  • Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • Ehler Danlos syndrome
• Pulmonary disease
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD)
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation in intrinsic restrictive lung diseases
• Pulmonary rehabilitation in neuromuscular and other extrinsic restrictive lung diseases
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation before and after pulmonary transplantation
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation after ventilatory failure
• Prevention and rehabilitation of pulmonary aspiration
  • Pulmonary issues in the athlete/Exercise induced asthma
• Vascular disease
  • Rehabilitation of, and the effects of exercise on peripheral arterial diseases
• Venous disease
  • Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)
  • Venous insufficiency: Rehabilitation management of venous stasis and postphlebitic syndrome
• Lymphedema

Amputation and Wounds

• Amputation
  • Upper limb amputations
  • Lower limb amputations
    • Epidemiology and Assessment
    • Peri-operative management
  • Upper limb prosthetics
  • Lower limb prosthetics
  • Congenital Lower Limb Deficiency
  • Congenital Upper Limb Deficiency
• Wounds
  • Pressure ulcer management in disorders of the CNS

Cancer, Organ Transplant and Immune-compromised Patients

• Cancers
  • Functional outcomes after rehabilitation of cancers
  • Exercise effects and fatigue in cancer patients
• Side effects of treatment (cancer surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy)
  • Radiation plexopathy
  • Brachial Plexopathy: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Side effects of treatment (cancer surgery, chemotheraphy, radiation therapy)
  • Post-Mastectomy Pain Syndrome (PMPS)
• Neuromuscular complications of cancer
  • Palliative care
• Rehablitation of specific organ system cancers
  • Breast cancer
  • Brain tumor
    • Intracranial Neoplasms
  • Bone tumor
    • Rehabilitation interventions for metastatic bone tumors
    • Primary Bone
    • Primary bone tumors in children and teens
    • Rehabilitation management of head and neck cancers
  • Lung cancer
  • Rehabilitation management of prostate cancer
  • Gastrointestinal malignancies
    • Pediatric spinal cord tumors
    • Rehabilitation management of hematologic malignancies and bone marrow transplant (adults and pediatrics)
• Organ transplantation
  • Liver
  • Solid Organ Transplant Rehabilitation
  • Kidney
  • Mixed connective tissue (face and hand)

Polytrauma, Debility and Burns

• Polytrauma
  • Polytrauma
  • Burn Rehabilitation
  • ICU Acquired Weakness and Neurocognitive Decline
• Rehabilitation of patients in critical care settings
• Orthostasis
• Contractures

Geriatric and Gender-specific Disorders

• Geriatric rehabilitation
  • Age-associated changes and biology of aging
• Neurological consequences of aging
• Sarcopenia and geriatric frailty and failure to thrive
  • Geriatric Frailty
  • Exercise in the elderly
• Polypharmacy in the elderly
  • Polypharmacy
  • Delirium and dementia
• Incontinence in the elderly
• Fall Prevention in the Elderly
• Hip fracture
• Dizziness
• Geriatric gait and balance disorders
• Mood disorders in the elderly
  • Caregiver education
• Ethical issues: competency, end of life planning and resource allocation
• Gender-specific disorders
  • Pregnancy related complications
    • Pregnant Athlete
    • Pregnancy related complications
    • Female athlete triad

Special Topics including Obesity, Infectious Diseases, Vestibular Disorders and Endocrinopathies

• Obesity
• Gout and pseudogout
• Endocrine abnormalities affecting the musculoskeletal system
• Human Immune Virus
• Rhabomyolysis
• Spine infections
• Hearing Impairment

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Pain /  Neuromuscular Medicine Rehabilitation

Pain Medicine / Chronic Pain

• Central and central nervous system pain states
  • Post-stroke pain
    • Central Poststroke Pain
  • Phantom Pain
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Pain and Traumatic brain injury
    • Traumatic Brain Injury
• Peripheral Pain Disorders
  • Headache
    • Tension
    • Cervicogenic Headache
    • Postconcussion Headache
    • Migraine Headaches
    • Cluster
  • Facial-oral pain
    • Trigeminal neuralgia
    • Temporal mandibular joint syndrome
  • Spinal/paraspinal or cervical/thoracic/lumbosacral pain
    • Radiculopathy
      1. Cervical stenosis
      2. Lumbar spondylolisthesis
      3. Lumbar stenosis
    • Myofascial pain
    • Facet mediated pain
      1. Facet Mediated Pain
      2. Lumbar spondylosis without myelopathy
      3. Lumbar zygapophyseal joint arthropathy
      4. Pediatric spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
      5. Cervical and Thoracic Zygapophsial joint arthropathy
    • Sacro-iliac joint pain
      1. Inflammatory Arthritides
      2. Post-laminectomy pain
    • Discogenic pain
      1. Lumbar disc disorders
      2. Discogenic Lumbar Pain
      3. Lumbar Strain
      4. Thoracic radiculopathy/myelopathy
      5. Seronegative spondyloarthropathy
    • Chest wall pain syndrome
    • Post-Mastectomy Pain Syndrome (PMPS)
  • Abdominal and pelvic pain
    • Somatic Abdominal and Pelvic Pain
    • Visceral pain: pelvic disorders
      1. Differential diagnosis and treatment of visceral pain in the pelvis and abdomen
  • Pelvic/perineal pain
    • SI Joint Pain
    • Legg Calve Perthe disease
    • Congenital hip dysplasia
    • Iliotibial band syndrome
  • Limb pain: non-neuropathic
    • Vascular
      1. Ischemic
      2. Post-phlebitic
      3. Vascular thoracic outlet
         1. Thoracic outlet syndrome
      4. Compartment syndrome
    • Inflammatory Arthritides
    • Hemophilia and hemorrhagic arthropathy
    • Connective tissue
      1. Collagen vascular disease
         1. Inflammatory Arthritides
    • Congenital hip dysplasia
  • Peripheral neuropathic pain
    • Acute herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia
    • Neuropathy
      1. Diabetic
         1. Diabetic neuropathy
      2. Metabolic
         1. Approach to peripheral polyneuropathy: evaluation and differential diagnosis
         2. Approach to peripheral polyneuropathy: treatment
         3. Toxic
         4. Alcoholic
         5. Human immune virus
         6. Small fiber
    • Peripheral nerve tumors
  • Complex regional pain syndrome
    • Complex regional pain syndrome Part 1: Essentials of Assessment and Diagnosis
    • Complex regional pain syndrome Part 2: Management and Treatment
  • Autonomically mediated pain/autonomic pain syndromes
  • Painful medical diseases
    • Neurological diseases
      1. Multiple Sclerosis
      2. AIDP/CIDP Part 1: Evaluation and Diagnosis
      3. AIDP/CIDP Part 2: Treatment
    • Human immune virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome
      1. Lyme Disease
      2. Porphyria
  • Psychological pain components
  • Somatiform disorders
    • Somatization disorder
    • Somatic Symptom Disorder
  • Conversion disorder
  • Psychological factors affecting physical disorders
    • Part 1: Evaluation and differential diagnosis
      1. Psychological diagnostic testing in pain disorders
      2. Depression
      3. Anxiety
      4. Hypochondrias
      5. Post-traumatic stress
      6. Munchaussen syndrome
      7. Malingering
    • Part 2: A general approach to treatment
      1. Psychological diagnostic testing in pain disorders
      2. Depression
      3. Anxiety
      4. Hypochondrias
      5. Post-traumatic stress
      6. Munchaussen syndrome
      7. Malingering

Neuromuscular Medicine

• Clinical neuromuscular conditions
  • Nerve root/radiculopathy
    • Electrodiagnosis of Radiculopathies (Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar)
  • Anterior horn cell
    • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
    • Poliomyelitis/post-polio syndrome
  • Neuromuscular junction
    • Electrodiagnostic Studies in Neuromuscular Junction Disorders
    • Myasthenia gravis
    • Congenital / Acquired
      1. Myasthenia Gravis
    • Neuromuscular Physiology
  • Other neuromuscular disorders
    • Lambert-Eaton myathenic syndrome
    • Toxins
    • Infection (botulism)
      1. Neuromuscular Physiology
  • Peripheral nerve
    • Plexus
      1. Brachial
         1. Brachial Plexopathy: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
         2. Traumatic
         3. Stingers and Burners
         4. Neoplastic/paraneoplastic
         5. Radiation
         6. Idiopathic
      2. Compressive/entrapment
         1. Compressive/entrapment
         2. Intrinsic compression
         3. Extrinsic compression
         4. Perioperative
      3. Immune mediated
         1. Parsonage-Turner
         2. Neuralgic amyotrophy
         3. Immune Mediated Brachial Plexopathy
         4. Pediatric Immune Mediated Brachial Plexopathy
      4. Lumbosacral plexopathy
         1. Lumbosacral plexopathy and sciatic neuropathy: differential diagnosis and treatment
         2. Traumatic
         3. Compressive/entrapment
         4. Immune mediated
         5. Neoplastic/paraneoplastic
         6. Neuromuscular Manifestations of Neoplasms and Paraneoplastic Syndromes
         7. Diabetic
         8. Radiation
         9. Idiopathic
    • Upper extremity peripheral nerve injuries
    • Upper extremity proximal mononeuropathies
      1. Accessory
      2. Long thoracic
      3. Axillary
      4. Suprascapular
      5. Musculocutaneous
      6. Median nerve mononeuropathies
    • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
    • Ulnar nerve mononeuropathy
      1. Ulnar nerve mononeuropathy at the wrist
      2. Ulnar nerve mononeuropathy at the elbow
    • Radial nerve mononeuropathy
      1. Radial nerve mononeuropathy
      2. Humeral level
      3. Posterior interosseous syndrome
      4. Radial tunnel syndrome
    • Trunk
    • Lower extremity peripheral nerve injuries
    • Proximal lower extremity mononeuropathies
      1. Proximal lower extremity mononeuropathies
      2. Ilioinguinal
      3. Genitofemoral
      4. Iliohypograstric
      5. Lateral femoral cutaneous
      6. Femoral/saphenous
      7. Obturator
    • Distal lower extremity mononeuropathies
      1. Distal lower extremity mononeuropathies
      2. Tibial
      3. Main trunk
      4. Fibular (peroneal)
      5. Sural
      6. Superficial peroneal differential and diagnosis
      7. Tarsal tunnel syndrome and intrinsic neurologic foot disorders
    • Intrinsic nerve injuries in foot
      1. Tarsal tunnel
      2. Morton’s neuroma
      3. Medial plantar
      4. Lateral plantar
      5. Calcaneal nerve
    • Mononeuropathy multiplex
    • Generalized peripheral nerve disorders
      1. Inherited
         1. Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN)
      2. Autonomic peripheral nerve disorders
      3. Immune mediated
         1. HIV in Children and Adolescents
         2. Immune Mediated Neuropathies
         3. Peripheral neuropathies associated with systemic disease
      4. Peripheral neuropathies associated with drugs and toxins
  • Muscle
    • Dystrophies (adolescent and adult onset)
      1. Part 1: Adult and adolescent onset muscular dystrophies: evaluation and diagnosis
         1. Emery-Dreifuss
         2. Limb girdle
            • Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
         3. Distal
         4. Facioscapulohumeral
            • Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
         5. Scapuloperoneal
         6. Oculopharyngeal
      2. Part 2: Adult and adolescent onset muscular dystrophies: treatment
         1. Emery-Dreifuss
         2. Limb girdle
            • Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
         3. Distal
         4. Facioscapulohumeral
            • Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
         5. Scapuloperoneal
         6. Oculopharyngeal
      3. Myotonic dystrophy types
         1. Congenital
            • Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
         2. Adult onset
            • Myotonic Disorders of Muscle
    • Congenital myopathies
      1. Hereditary and sporadic inclusion body myositis
      2. Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
    • Metabolic myopathies
      1. Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
    • Mitochondrial myopathies
      1. Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
      2. Nondystrophic myotonia and periodic paralysis
      3. Rhabomyolysis
    • Inflammatory myopathies
      1. Dermatomyositis
      2. Polymyositis
      3. Inclusion body myositis
      4. Necrotizing myopathy
      5. Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
    • Myopathy associated with systemic disease
      1. Endocrine
      2. Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
      3. Critical illness
      4. Critical illness myopathy
    • Toxic myopathy
  • Other genetic disorders
    • Arthrogryposis
• Electrodiagnosis
  • Nerve conduction studies
    • Nerve conduction velocities
  • 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
  • The electrodiagnostic consultation and report

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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
      • Abuse
        • Physical Abuse (Nonaccidental Trauma)
        • Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
        • Pediatric anoxic brain injury
    • Vascular malformations of the brain and spine in children
    • Pediatric stroke
    • Pediatric immune mediated diseases
      • Multiple sclerosis (including transverse myelitis)
    • Pediatric CNS tumors
      • Pediatric spinal cord tumors
      • Pediatric Brain Tumor
  • Pediatric neurodegenerative disorders
    • Pediatric neurodegenerative disorders
    • Toxin mediated encephalopathies
    • Freidreich’s ataxia
    • Mitochondrial cytopathy
    • Dystonias (except Torticollis)
  • Neuro-Behavioral with somatic presentations
    • Neuro-Behavioral with somatic presentations
    • Conversion disorders
    • Munchausen’s (by proxy)
    • Malingering
  • Central Neurological – Spinal Cord
    • Congenital
      • Spinal dysraphisms
      • Myelomeningocele
      • Other spinal dysaraphisms
        • Lipomeningocele
        • Diastermatomyelia
        • Caudal regression
        • Spinal bifida occulta
        • Pediatric syringomyelia
      • Genetic conditions
        • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
      • Tethered cord syndrome
    • Acquired
      • Traumatic spinal cord injury
      • Spinal cord injury without radiological abnormality
      • Immune mediated
        • Multiple sclerosis
        • Transverse myelitis
      • Vascular insult
      • Diseases of the anterior horn cell in childhood
        • Spinal muscular atrophy
        • Polio
        • Poliomyelitis/post-polio syndrome
• Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Peripheral nerve
    • Plexus
      • Immune mediated brachial plexopathy
        • Pediatric Immune Mediated Brachial Plexopathy
        • Neonatal Brachial Plexus Injury
        • Acquired post-natally
        • Traumatic
        • Radiation induced
        • Radiation plexopathy
        • Immune mediated
        • Tumors
      • Lumbosacral brachial plexopathy including:
        • Traumatic
        • Immunce mediated
        • Radiation induced
        • Tumors
    • 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
  • Pediatric diseases of the neuromuscular junction
    • Toxic
      • Tetanus
      • Botulism
    • Myasthenic Syndromes
  • Muscle disorders
    • Congenital
      • Dystrophies
        • Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
        • Fascioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
        • Congenital muscular dystrophy
        • Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy
        • Part 1: Adult and adolescent onset muscular dystrophies: evaluation and diagnosis
        • Emery Driefuss muscular dystrophy
      • Congenital myopathies
        • Nemaline rod myopathy
        • Central core myopathy
      • Myotonic disorders
        • Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
        • Congenital and acquired Myotonia
        • Nondystrophic myotonia and periodic paralysis
      • Metabolic myopathies
        • Pompe’s disease
        • McArdle’s disease
        • Camitine deficiency
        • Tumor-related
    • Acquired
      • Inflammatory
        • Dermatomyositis
        • Polymyositis
      • Pediatric infectious myositis
        • Pediatric infectious myositis
        • Bacterial myositis
        • Parasitic
        • Viral and post-viral myositis
      • Toxin mediated myositis in children
        • Toxic myopathy
    • Other
      • Torticollis

Musculoskeletal Disorders

• Amputation/limb deficiency
  • Acquired
    • Pediatric acquired upper and lower limb deficiency
  • Congenital
    • Congenital Upper Limb Deficiency
    • Congenital Lower Limb Deficiency
• Bone
  • Pediatric congenital bone diseases (other)
    • Osteogenesis Imperfecta
  • Acquired
    • Pediatric fractures in developing bone
      • Stress
      • Greenstick
      • Avulsions
      • Salter Harris
    • Tumors
      • Primary bone tumors in children and teens
      • Osteogenic sarcoma
• Pediatric Burns
  • Thermal
  • Electrical
  • Lightening strike
• Joint
  • Congenital
    • Congenital hip dysplasia
    • Club Foot
    • Arthrogryposis
  • Acquired
    • Inflammatory
      • Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
      • Inflammatory Arthritides
    • Atraumatic
      • Legg Calve Perthe disease
      • Blount’s disease
      • Slipped capitofemoral epiphyses
    • 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
    • Ehler Danlos syndrome
  • Acquired
    • Acquired inflammatory diseases of the joint in children
    • Bechet’s
    • Scleroderma in children
    • Systemic lupus erythrematosis in children
  • Traumatic joint diseases in children
    • Pediatric muscle strains
    • Pediatric soft tissue sprains
    • Pediatric enthesopathies
• Other spinal disorders in children
  • Pediatric spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
  • Klippel-Feil syndrome
  • Scheuermann’s disease
  • Scoliosis
  • Neurogenic Scoliosis
• Metabolic bone diseases in children
  • Osteoporosis/osteopenia in children

Cancer and Organ Transplantation

• Rehabilitation in blood malignancies including leukemia and lymphoma
• Neurofibromatosis
  • Type 1
  • Type 2

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
  • Complex regional pain syndrome Part 1: Essentials of Assessment and Diagnosis
  • Complex regional pain syndrome Part 2: Management and Treatment
• Adolescent pain disorders
  • Rehabilitation Approach to Adolescent Pain

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Essentials of Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Basic Practice Concepts

• Rehabilitation philosophy
  • The Philosophical Foundations of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• History of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • The History of the Specialty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation teams
• Functional assessment
• Environmental assessment
  • Physical environment
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Interpersonal environment
• Conceptual models of disability
• Measurement of Outcomes

Specialized Physiatric Assessment and Management Strategies

• Specialized Physiatric Assessment and Management Strategies
• Osteopathic Medicine
• Procedures
  • Diagnostic
    • Physiatric approaches to physical examination
      1. Neurological examination and classification of SCI
      2. Cognitive/behavioral/neuropsychological testing
      3. Specialized musculoskeletal examination
         1. Spine and neck
         2. Extremities
      4. Assessment/determination of spinal stability after spinal compression fractures and spinal cord injury
         1. Spinal Instability: Definition, theory and assessment of spinal column function and dysfunction
      5. Physiological principles underlying electrodiagnosis and neurophysiologic testing
    • Imaging
      1. MRI and CT scanning
      2. Plain radiology
      3. Ultrasound Imaging of Musculoskeletal Disorders
  • Principles of pharmalogic treatments
    • Injectable agents
      1. Peripheral agents, soft tissue injections
         1. Anesthetic agents
         2. Steroids and Corticosteroids
      2. Central agents
         1. Intrathecal Agents
         2. Other central pumps
      3. Steroids
      4. Analgesics
         1. Non-opioids
            • Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Medications
            • Anticonvulsants
            • Other adjuvant agents
         2. Opioids
            • Opioid Management for Chronic Pain
      5. Immune stimulators
    • Joint injections/aspiration
    • Spinal procedures
    • Neurolysis
• Physiatric therapeutics
  • Exercise
    • Exercise prescription and basic principles of therapeutic exercise
      1. Strengthening
      2. Flexibility
      3. Endurance
         1. Cardiovascular
            • Cardiac issues in sports medicine
         2. Muscular
            • Hydration Issues in the Athlete and Exercise Associated Hyponatremia
      4. Skill aquisition
         • Downed runner
    • Integrative Approaches to Therapeutic Exercise
    • Core stabilization
      1. To support specific athletic skills including injury prevention
         1. Throwing athletes
      2. For injured workers including prevention
         1. Core Strengthening
    • Alternative and complementary approaches
      1. Acupuncture
         • Alternative and Complementary Approaches – Acupuncture
      2. Biomechanical
         • Pilates
      3. Energy flow
         • Tai chi
    • Role of exercise in neuromuscular conditions
  • Therapeutic modalities
    • Heat
    • Cold
    • Electricity
    • Manual treatments
  • Upper and lower limb orthoses and therapeutic footwear
    • Cervico lumbar and spinal orthoses
    • Cervical/thoracic
    • Lumbosacral/pelvic
      1. Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbosacral Orthoses
  • Durable medical equipment that supports activities of daily living, transfers and ambulation
    • Wheelchair and power mobility
  • Environmental evaluation
    • Therapeutic massage
    • Home/workplace modification
    • Universal design
    • Ergonomics
  • Virtual reality/robotic applications in rehabilitation
  • Caregiving training
• Administrative rehabilitation medicine
  • Systems based practice
    • Administrative Rehabilitation Medicine: Systems-based Practice
    • Palliative care
  • Rehabilitation team functioning
  • Outcome measurement in rehabilitation
    • Disability evaluation
    • Quality improvement / patient safety issues relevant to rehabilitation
  • Compliance issues relevant to rehabilitation
  • Regulatory and accreditation requirements in rehabilitation
    • Professionalism in rehabilitation including peer, student, resident and fellow recommendations/assessment
    • Ethical issues commonly managed during rehabilitation
  • Resource allocation in rehabilitation
  • Pay for performance in rehabiitation
    • Achieving Pay-for-Performance in Outpatient Practice through Measurement of Functional Health Outcomes
  • Rehabilitation levels of care
  • Medico-legal considerations / risk management in rehabilitation
  • Patient advocacy in rehabilitation
    • Clinical informatics in rehabilitation practice
  • Communication issues relevant in rehabilitation
    • Communication Issues in Physical Medicine and Rehabiltiation
    • Electronic medical record/electronic health record
    • Privacy
    • Meaningful use
    • Medical reconciliation/hand-offs of care
      1. Transition of Care / Medication Reconciliation

Basic Science Concepts

• Basic skills for assessment of medical literature
  • Essentials of understanding medical literature: Classes of evidence, FDA guidelines, basic statistics, and study design for understanding medical literature
• Neurological recovery and regeneration
  • Central
    • Natural Recovery and Regeneration of the Central Nervous System
  • Peripheral
    • Peripheral neurological recovery and regeneration
• Neuromuscular 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
    • Energy expenditure during basic mobility and approaches to energy conservation
• Pain and placebo physiology
• Normal aging
  • Cell death/apoptosis
• Illness behavior
  • Influence of psychosocial factors on illness behaviors
  • Female athlete triad
• Normal development
  • Normal childhood and adolescent development
  • Psychological and psychosocial development during adulthood
  • Developmental transitions
    • Child to adult
      1. Transition to Adulthood for Persons with Childhood Onset Disabilities
    • Middle age to old age
• Models of learning and behavioral modification in rehabilitation
  • Incorporation of prevention and risk factor modification in rehabilitation

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