This module includes approximately two hours of online learning and an in-person one day workshop focuses on physical therapy interventions including exercise and mobility programs that optimize healing outcomes and manage pain in people with lower extremity wounds. It includes physiotherapy interventions that are known to manage chronic edema (compression) and optimize calf muscle function in people with venous leg ulcers and provides effective offloading and/or pressure re-distribution strategies for people with diabetic foot ulcers or pressure injuries.
This course is offered on the same weekend as “Wound Care Principles and Assessments”, offered on September 15. Take one, or take both and save!
OPA/CPA Members: $350+HST; Non-members: $425 HST. Package deal: OPA/CPA Members*: $600 + HST; Non-members: $750 + HST.