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NEW SURVEY OPPORTUNITY
The leadership of NCPTA is currently reviewing our Mission and Vision statements. We have some drafts that we would like for you to review and provide feedback. The current Mission and Vision statements are one of the choices. The survey takes less than 5 minutes and will provide us with the valuable feedback of the membership. Click to begin.
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NCPTA’s 2009 Fall Conference & Chapter Meeting
October 29-31, 2009
In Greensboro at the Marriott Downtown Greensboro
We’ll rock downtown Greensboro with educating education programs! Plan today to take advantage of these three days for your upcoming continued competence license renewal requirements.
Here are some of the education sessions planned!!!
· Advanced DAFO
· Breast Cancer Rehabilitation & Related Concerns, including Exercise, Lymphedema & Osteoporosis
· Clinical Documentation - Common Ground
· Developing and Presenting an Education program for Continuing Competency
· Development of Gait: Typical and Atypical
· Elder Abuse: The Therapist's Role in Identification and Prevention
· End of Life Issues
· Fall Management: Balance and the Older Adult
· Introduction to Kinesio Taping Methods
· Parliamentary Procedures and Conducting Meetings According to Roberts Rules
· Wound Management Panel
· And…………lots more!!!
Our annual Reimbursement Seminar has been rolled into the Fall Conference programming, so if reimbursement is your primary focus, check out some of the topics planned for our 2009 Reimbursement Seminar.
Medicare Update: Master The Latest Rules
Medicaid and the Private Practitioner
PQRI: Implementing a Program in Your Practice
Student Programming
PT & PTA Licensure 101
Plyometrics Oxford Debate
Join us on Friday Night for our Monster Mash Costume Ball!! You can dress up if you like! We’ll have a D-J rocking the ghostly songs of Halloween and songs from the 60s through today!
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SPECIAL OLYMPICS FUNFITNESS JUNE 6TH A TRIUMPH!
Special Olympics FUNfitness at NC Special Summer Games on June 6th at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh was a success! We had 55 wonderful volunteers with 13 PTs, 2 PTAs, 31 SPTs from ECU, Elon, Duke, WSSU, and UNC (many have graduated – good luck on your licensure exam!), 1 SPTA from GTCC. In addition, we had 8 non-clinical folks who are spouses, friends, and teens. We screened 68 athletes with a venue setting away from the busy dance and Olympic Town we have enjoyed for years. The education we provided allowed athletes to take what they learned and apply it for their next sport season. Events like this are very special to the athletes and the volunteers have fun and learn as well! Our next event is right around the corner at the NC Mid-Summer Games in Raleigh on July 18th – please mark your calendars! Info will be sent by NCPTA Blastcast! Click HERE to download the sign up form.
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Physical Therapists screen athletes and visit with the Vice President at 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games
Special Olympics World Winter Games in Boise, Idaho were hugely successful. Over 1900 athletes from approximately 100 countries participated in skiing, snowboarding, skating, snowshoeing, and floor hockey.
Many people with disability, especially intellectual disability, do not have equal or adequate access to health care. In recognition of these needs, for over 10 years Special Olympics has provided athletes the opportunity to participate in Healthy Athletes®, a program of free screenings that promote health and fitness while reducing health disparities. FUNfitness, one of the Healthy Athletes events, is a fitness screening designed to assess needs in flexibility, functional strength, balance and aerobic condition; to teach exercises that improve areas of need; to educate athletes, families and coaches about the importance of fitness; and to provide a hands-on opportunity to learn how physical therapists can help with fitness. Sixty-four physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students from Idaho, the US, and the world volunteered at the Idaho screening event. Read The Full Story
Vice President, Joe Biden with athletes
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