Proven Fall Prevention Strategies: Predict, Program & Prevent
- Speaker:
- Trent Brown, MOT, OTR/L, BCG, ATP, CFPS, CGS
- Duration:
- 3 Hours
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Aug 09, 2024
- Product Code:
- POS078827
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
One fall can turn your patient’s life upside down, resulting in rapidly declining health, extended hospital stays, monetary loss, fear, and isolation.
This session will hit all the highlights to help patients avoid falls while retaining the strength, balance and mobility it takes to stay functionally independent. Trent Brown MOT, OTR/L, BCG, ATP, CFPS, CGS will explore evidence-based strategies including patient teaching, home modifications, fall reduction programs, diet (hypovitaminosis), medication management, dual-task training, eye movement behaviors, visual deficits, and specific activities that reduce or prevent falls.
Discover practical solutions to some of the most challenging real-life situations you face with patients who fall or are at risk of falling. Built on today’s best practices, this training will provide you exactly what you need so you can …
- Better predict and prevent falls with effective fall prevention tools and strategies
- Design an individualized plan of care for patients who are high risk for falls
- Restore mobility and function with interventions and assistive technologies
- Perform validated fall assessments with categorization options for risk level
- Build your professional reputation as a go-to resource on fall prevention
Credit
Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Fall Prevention Strategies (15.00 MB) | 92 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Trent Brown, MOT, OTR/L, BCG, ATP, CFPS, CGS Related seminars and products
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Access Period for Live Webcast
For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
Objectives
- Evaluate the evidence-based predictors that contribute to falls.
- Plan an individualized patient fall reduction program.
- Complete fall risk assessments to develop a plan of care for the high risk fall patient.
- Incorporate specific clinical strategies, exercises, activities, and educational resources to address fall risk reduction.
Outline
Evidence-Based Predictors Leading to Falls- Where do falls occur?
- intrinsic/extrinsic/environmental factors
- Predictors of falls
- What does not work to prevent falls
- Fall risk factors
- Combination of interventions
- Individualized
- Trained clinicians
- Individual accountability
- FRT
- STEADI
- HSSAT
- 10 M walk test
- What is not reliable as a single test?
- TUG, BERG, Chair Stand, etc.
- Strategies to address fall risks
- FOF
- Eye movement behaviors
- FOF
- UE Strength
- FAST
- Visual impairment
- Medications
- Depression
- Biological sex and falls
- Anterior vs. posterior pelvic tilt
- Vitamin D
- Hypovitaminosis
- IU recommendation
- Clinician education
- Sleep
- Home modifications
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