Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Physiotherapy Exercise and Physical Activity for Knee Osteoarthritis (PEAK)
PEAK guided learners how to implement best-practice care to people with knee osteoarthritis. Learners should confidently deliver the program in their clinical setting, during both face-to-face consultations and via tele-health applying a structured program of education, strengthening exercises and an individualised physical activity plan.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Professor Rana Hinman
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine
Professor Kim Bennell
NHMRC Leadership Fellow & Director of
Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the best-practice management of knee osteoarthritis, based on the latest research evidence
- Summarise osteoarthritis, its prognosis and common treatment approaches, including the benefits of exercise and strategies for staying physically active to your patients.
- Apply a structured program of education, strengthening exercises and an individualised physical activity plan with your clients who have persistent knee pain.
- Perform delivery of the PEAK program in your clinical setting, during both face-to-face consultations and via telehealth.
Syllabus
Evidence-Based Knee Osteoarthritis
- What is osteoarthritis?
- Making the diagnosis…
- Pain, comorbidities, and misconceptions with osteoarthritis
- Evidence-based management of osteoarthritis
Telehealth Delivery of Physiotherapy Care
- Introduction to telehealth
- Technical connections for telehealth
- Getting started with telehealth
- Learning how to use Zoom
The PEAK Program
- Getting started
- The first consultation
- Follow up consultations
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Issued on 26th September 2022
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