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Today’s aging and active population requires physical therapists to practice at the highest level of their license. This course will dive deep into a rapidly increasing geriatric condition-adult scoliosis. Experts estimate that 60% of adults over sixty have scoliosis. Course registrants will learn about the multiple effects adult scoliosis has on the body, creative therapeutic exercise techniques and how to sequence a corrective exercise program.

John addresses all of the following:

• Origins of adult scoliosis
• Postural complications of adult scoliosis
• How the musculoskeletal aging process impacts adult scoliosis
• Therapeutic interventions for adult scoliosis
• Case studies of patients with adult scoliosis

CME Credit:

PT: This webinar will quality for 1.0 hour of PT CME credit in AL, AK, AR, AZ, CO, CT, DE, GA, HI, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, NE, NV, NH, NC, ND, NM, OK, OR, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY

OT: This webinar will quality for 1.0 hour of OT CME credit in AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MN, MS, MO, NC, NE, NV, NH, ND, NM, OK, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WV, WI, WY

Speaker: John O’Halloran, PT, DPT, OCS, Cert MDT, Certified SCTM-1 Practitioner is a board certified orthopaedic clinical specialist by the American Physical Therapy Association and has over 30 years of experience in orthopaedics.  He earned his post-professional DPT from Temple University, has studied orthopaedic and sports therapy abroad in Australia and New Zealand and is the sole owner of O’Halloran Rehabilitation. John is credentialed with the McKenzie Institute in the mechanical diagnosis and treatment of the spine and has extensive post graduate training in manipulative therapy of the spine and extremities, is a certified SCTM-1 Practitioner and has certificates in SMT-1, SMT-2 and SMT-3 with the American Spinal Manipulative Institute. In 2014, John was the recipient of the Clinician of the Year and Excellence in Clinical Practice Award by the North Carolina Physical Therapy Association. John has presented over 1,300 times both locally and internationally on various orthopaedic and sports medicine topics and his investigational work on the earlier facilitation of gait in the TKA patient has been cited in a peer reviewed journal publication.