Jamie Miner – Geriatric Functional Strengthening & Exercise Prescription

Discover how to create safe, effective strength programs for any adult, including those with metabolic and orthopedic conditions.

Jamie Miner – Geriatric Functional Strengthening & Exercise Prescription

Your older patients may feel that they are losing their strength, energy, and vitality as they age. It is frustrating to watch your older patients experience a loss in muscle mass and weakness. Knowing that these factors can lead to injury, it makes you feel helpless. This population can benefit from strength training to increase muscle strength and coordination. It also helps to preserve functional capacity and independence. Your therapy plan can help you reverse the loss of strength and energy that patients are experiencing.

You will learn how to create safe and effective strength programs that are safe for all ages, including those with metabolic and orthopedic diseases. Learn how to assist the most difficult patients, those with colitis.-Morbidities can be reduced by reaching new levels of strength, vitality and endurance. Strength training is a great way to reduce arthritis symptoms and other metabolic conditions in your patients.

1. Consider whether weakness, deconditioning and poor movement habits can be contributing factors to your problem.
2. In order to improve functional strength and balance, you must consider the limitations of each chronic injury or illness.
3. For those who have orthopedic limitations because of injury or disease, adapt traditional exercises
4. Strength training principles can be used to improve patient outcomes
5. Effective programs to treat the most common injuries and the most serious “lifestyle” They often come with conditions
6. Compare the benefits and risks of particular evidence-Patients can use based exercise programs as a guide to their decision-making

LATEST TRENDS in Strength Training for Older Adults (2 HOURS).

• Age-related changes
• Strength training’s impact on function improvement
• Methods to determine deconditioning level or muscle weakness
• The evidence-Supportive research based on strength training
• Effective program outcomes

THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYTEM: INCOORPATED PHYSIOLOGY INTO a BALANCED EXERCISE LAN (30 MINUTES).

• How to build strength
• How to build power
• How to create anaerobic/aerobic metabolis

ESTABLISH A STARTING POSITION THROUGH AGE-RELATED ASSESSMENTS – CASE STUDY ICON (30 MINUTES).

• Posture
• Balance
• Strength
• Cardiovascular
• The range of motion
• Functional Evaluation

CUSTOMIZED EXERCISES AND MODIFICATIONS FOR STRENGTH TRAINING BASED ON DIAGNOSIS (1 HOUR).

• Frailty
• Elevated Fall Risk
• Chair-Adults bound
• Orthopedic conditions
  • Arthritis
  • Joint replacements
    • Hip
    • Knee
    • Reverse total shoulder
  • Care for the spine and low back pain
    • Osteoporosis
    • Spinal stenosis
    • Lumbar Fusion
  • Conditions in the shoulder
    • Rotator cuff tears
    • Shoulder impingement
    • Frozen shoulder
    • IT band syndrome
• Diabetes, COPD, cardiovascular disease, obesity and COPD are all possible

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SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS IN EXERCISE PROGRAMMING IN THE OLDER ADULT (LABICON) (30 MINUTES

• Considerations for co-Chronic conditions and morbidities
• To overcome limitations, modify activities
  • Inability or incapacity to tolerate heat and cold environments
  • Reactions to external stimuli can be too aggressive
  • Balance
• Gait and neuromuscular control problems
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • CVA
  • MS
• Increased injury risk: Considerations
• Time for recovery
• Exercise and the effects of medication

UNIQUE CONSIDERATIONS DURING PRESCRIBING EXERCISE IN OLDER ADULTS (30 MINUTES).

• Volume
• Intensity
• Durability
• Frequency
• Sequencing exercise

TIPS TO MOTIVATE PATIENTS—AND KEEP THEM ACTIVE (CASE STUDY ICON) (1 HOUR)

• Exercise requires you to overcome your mental and emotional blocks
• Incorporate exercise into your daily life
• Low-cost exercise solutions
• Considerations regarding nutrition