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(APTA-COVID-22)
This course will offer multiple perspectives on treating Long COVID (Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID) and help clinicians increase their confidence with managing this patient population.
This lecture is a can’t miss experience where you will hear the latest information on screening, referral, and care for Long COVID. As the value of PT in this population is recognized, referrals will increase either by medical providers or through direct access. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, a significant group of patients who survive the disease experience long-lasting symptoms and negative effects on their health. These can include long-lasting effects on the heart, lungs, immune system, mental health, and overall quality of life. Such persistent “long-haul” complications have been reported by our patients and have been described in the medical literature, ranging from respiratory problems to exhaustion from even the slightest exertion, as well as nerve pain, persistent headaches, trouble concentrating, or memory trouble sometimes referred to as “brain fog.” Typically, the symptoms persist for weeks or months after someone has recovered from COVID-19.
The purpose of this course is to introduce the physical therapists and physical therapist assistants to the components of multidisciplinary long COVID care. This will allow therapists outside of “long COVID clinic” centers to understand the role of each discipline and recognize whom to consult when creating their own “clinic without walls” through referral networks and outreach in their communities. This course will highlight the key conditions that should be screened and when necessary, referred for clearance, before a long COVID rehabilitation program begins, and provide real world examples of physical therapy evaluations, treatments, and progressions. Come learn to avoid the pitfalls of treating patients with long COVID, and learn the value of pacing and many other “tricks of the trade” by those in the field.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learner will be able to define Long COVID and recognize its variable presentations.
2. Learner will be able to accurately screen for Long COVID sequelae/symptoms and understand referral needs for the patient population.
3. Learner will be able to identify examination techniques (test and measures) to identify impairments related to Long COVID.
4. Learner will demonstrate understanding of appropriate and effective interventions to manage Long COVID, including knowledge of progressions and regressions, to safely achieve patient goals.
5. Learner will understand the multi-disciplinary needs of this patient population.
6. Learner will demonstrate understanding of where to locate resources and further education related to Long COVID.
7. Learner will be able to identify appropriate outcomes measures to quantify progress of patient population.
Sophia "Fieke" Janson
PT, GCS
Fieke received her Physical Therapy degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1989. Sophia has over 30 years of clinical experience and has worked in a variety of settings including acute rehab, acute care, home health, outpatient orthopedics, and outpatient neuro rehab. She is an APTA credentialed clinical instructor and has served as an adjunct faculty member at Marymount University. Sophia is certified in LSVT Big. In addition, she obtained her APTA Geriatric Clinical Specialist certification in 2017. Sophia was instrumental in establishing the PT presence in the post-COVID clinic at the George Washington University medical faculty associates.
Jennifer Zanni
PT, DScPT
Dr. Jennifer Zanni is a board certified Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Specialist and works as a physical therapist with the Johns Hopkins Rehabilitation Network in Baltimore, Maryland. She has over 24 years of experience working with a variety of patient populations, but has a primary interest in the management of patients with complex medical conditions and with those who have survived critical illness. Dr. Zanni currently serves as a lead physical therapist with both the Johns Hopkins Post-Acute COVID-19 Team (PACT) and the Johns Hopkins Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Program. Dr. Zanni is also a lecturer in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University.
Corey Malone
PT, DPT
Corey completed his undergraduate degree in health and human performances in 2011 from the University of Louisville, and graduated with a doctorate in physical therapy in 2013 from Bellarmine University. Corey spent two years practicing orthopedic physical therapy in Baltimore before moving back to his hometown of Louisville, KY in 2016 where he began working at KORT. Corey completed an orthopedic residency program from KORT and was board certified in orthopedics in 2018. Since 2018, Corey has worked on creating and developing physical therapy programs to help improve the function of patients suffering from severe deconditioning due to conditions such as cardiovascular dysfunction and Long COVID. His clinical interests are in hands-on therapy, sports-related injuries, restoration of cardiovascular fitness and clinical decision-making. Corey enjoys living an active lifestyle with his wife and two daughters.
Rebecca Boersma
MA, CCC-SLP
Rebecca works as a speech-language pathologist at George Washington University Hospital in the Outpatient Rehabilitation Center, having received her Master's degree from the University of Minnesota. Rebecca focuses on person-centered, functional approaches for neurogenic disorders and treats patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and neuromuscular diseases. Rebecca first began working with patient with COVID-19 in acute care in 2020 and has since helped launch the Post-COVID-19 Outpatient Recovery Clinic to serve individuals with persistent cognitive, voice, and swallowing difficulties post COVID-19.
Becca Krysiak
MS, OTR/L, CBIS
Becca is an occupational therapist located at GWU Hospital Outpatient Rehabilitation Center. She has been based in DC since graduating from Thomas Jefferson University in 2017 with her Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy. She is always striving to further her knowledge and use evidence based tools, completing study in visual impairments after neurologic conditions, splinting for orthopedic and neurologic populations, concussion and TBI with her Certified Brain Injury Specialist, LSVT BIG and dance for Parkinson populations. She strives to use her dance, yoga, and swimming background to incorporate into her orthopedic, geriatric, and neurologic populations to allow for greater joy in exercise. Becca has participated in long COVID-19 therapy since 2020, working interdisciplinary with therapists and physicians to provide greater care to her patients.
Elisabeth Nickels
Ph.D.
Dr. Nickels is a counseling psychologist with expertise in health and rehabilitation psychology. She specializes in adjustment to acute and chronic illness, injury and disability, chronic pain management, and health psychology intervention. She is part of the Post-Acute COVID-19 Team (JH PACT) & Pain Clinic in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Nickels obtained a master of arts degree and master’s in education in psychological counseling at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. She completed a predoctoral internship in psychology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance in New York and then obtained her doctoral degree in counseling psychology from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She continued her training as a postdoctoral fellow in health psychology and psycho-oncology at Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Research and clinical interests include the role of social and emotional factors in adjustment, health behaviors, and quality of life in prevention and management of acute and chronic health conditions. With a background in the arts, Dr. Nickels also has experience in teaching and performing music and theater.
Course Instructions
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(APTA-TENDON-22)
This is the first lecture in the APTA Lecture Series for 2022. This course will provide an update on the current science of tendinopathy treatment, with a focus on immediate clinical translation. After completing this course, participants will have an understanding of tendon injury and healing, the clinical skills to evaluate and diagnose common lower extremity tendinopathies (gluteal, proximal hamstring, patellar, Achilles), established treatment protocols to implement in the clinic, and the ability to modify these protocols for unique or challenging case presentations.
Lower extremity tendinopathy is a painful and debilitating injury, which represents a substantial portion of orthopedic caseloads. As frustrating as this injury is for patients, it can be equally frustrating for clinicians to treat. The research guiding clinical practice has lagged more acute orthopedic injuries, symptoms may be slow to respond to treatments, and recurrence rates are high. This course will provide an update on the current science of tendinopathy treatment, with a focus on immediate clinical translation. After completing this course, participants will have an understanding of tendon injury and healing, the clinical skills to evaluate and diagnose common lower extremity tendinopathies (gluteal, proximal hamstring, patellar, Achilles), established treatment protocols to implement in the clinic, and the ability to modify these protocols for unique or challenging case presentations.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the tendon injury and healing process.
Conduct a comprehensive clinical exam for common lower extremity tendinopathies.
Explain the basic mechanism of mechanotherapy for tendinopathy treatment and dosage parameters of established loading programs.
Identify complicating factors that may diminish a patient’s response to established loading programs.
Design an individualized loading program for patients with lower extremity tendinopathy, which accounts for complicating factors.
Evaluated the utility of adjunctive treatments for patients with lower extremity tendinopathy.
Andrew Sprague
PT, DPT, PhD
Dr. Andrew Sprague, PT, PhD, DPT is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2015 at the University of Delaware (UD) and then completed his PhD under the advisement of Karin Grӓvare Silbernagel in the UD Tendon Research Lab (2020). His research and clinical practice have focused on evaluation and rehabilitation of lower extremity tendinopathies. The goal of Dr. Sprague’s research at the University of Pittsburgh is to identify measures that will allow for individualized load and recovery prescription for patients with overuse tendon injuries. Dr. Sprague has shared his research and clinical expertise at numerous national and international conferences and received honors for his work from the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research and the Imaging Special Interest Group of the American Physical Therapy Association.
Course Instructions
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(APTA-MENTAL-22)
This course is lecture 2 of the APTA Lecture Series 2022, in which presenters explore the psychological impairments associated with commonly diagnosed mental disorders, providing tools to incorporate interviewing, communication skills, and action-oriented patient education into the plan of care to promote the patient's self-responsibility and efficacy.
There is growing evidence that secondary prevention of costly and disabling musculoskeletal-related pain requires clinicians to 1) identify those patients at risk for becoming disabled with musculoskeletal pain, and 2) implement intervention strategies to address the cognitive and affective tendencies that coexist with the physical impairments associated with musculoskeletal pain. Physical therapists are equipped to be the leaders in preventing musculoskeletal pain and disability. The focus of this seminar is to introduce and train PTs in the skills to take this lead.
This training will enable physical therapists to improve their effectiveness in identifying psychological impairments associated with commonly diagnosed mental disorders. And then incorporate interviewing, communication skills, and action-oriented patient education to optimally structure therapist-patient relationships that promote the patient's self-responsibility and efficacy. This training will highlight clinical practice guideline recommendations providing strategies to prevent the progression of acute pain to chronic, disabling conditions. Patient education and counseling strategies discussed and practiced during this session will equip therapists with fundamental skills to address 1) personality disorders, such as paranoid, avoidant, borderline, or dependent disorders, 2) cognitive tendencies, such as anxiety or fear, 3) affective tendencies, such as depression, 4) pain catastrophizing, such as exaggerated pain experiences, and 5) generalized pain, such as maladaptive central nervous system sensitivity.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this seminar, a participant will be able to:
Identify and be motivated to alter common practice patterns that promote longstanding, chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Describe the three practice dimensions driving the clinical decisions of clinicians working with individuals to prevent or manage chronic low back pain.
Conduction an initial intake and follow-up sessions with a client using Motivational Interviewing.
Perform an assessment to determine the presence of mental impairments in the form of cognitive or affective tendencies predictive of the progression of acute pain to chronic disabling pain.
Implement education and counseling strategies specific to the presenting mental impairments of individuals with musculoskeletal pain, which have the best evidence to assist the individual with mitigating the progression toward chronic musculoskeletal pain
(LMS-MHS-2)
This course helps clinicians apply stress-informed principles to physical therapy assessments and interventions using trauma-informed and biopsychosocial care models. As Part 2 of the Reframing the Complex Patient series, it focuses on translating stress science into practical, patient-centered clinical strategies. This course is available until 12/31/2026. (0.3 CEU / 3 contact hours)
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This course is Part 2 of the Reframing the Complex Patient series, available for individual purchase, and builds on stress science to help clinicians apply an integrative, stress-informed approach to physical therapy care. Participants will learn how to adapt PT assessments and interventions by viewing patients through the lens of stress physiology, trauma-informed care, and biopsychosocial models.
Interested in the full three-course series?Click here to explore the complete Reframing the Complex Patient program.
Key Features
This course is available until 12/31/2026
Cost:
$99 for PT, PTA, Post-Professional, and Student Members
$149 for Non-Members
Earn CEU: 0.3 (3 contact hours)
Sarah Wenger
PT, DPT
Sarah Wenger, PT, DPT, FNAP and Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist is the Physical Therapy Services Director for the Philadelphia Department of Health. In this role she is developing and directing a new program through the city’s Ambulatory Health Services that provides physical therapy to city residents who are uninsured or otherwise have limited access to services. She is also an adjunct professor at Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions where she was previously a professor for 17 years. She teaches the pathophysiology series where she develops students’ reasoning skills in the context of chronicity and complexity across the biopsychosocial spectrum. Dr. Wenger enjoys working with chronic biopsychosocial dynamics and teaching others how to care for patients with complex needs. Her treatment focuses on interprofessional collaboration, patient education, and building self-efficacy that empowers patients to manage their chronic conditions as independently as possible. As part of an interprofessional team, Dr. Wenger developed a chronic pain clinical reasoning model and psycho-education program called Power Over Pain. Dr. Wenger has published and presented on a range of topics related to her areas of expertise in chronic pain, complexity and chronicity, trauma-informed care, under-resourced populations, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional care and education.
Andra DeVoght
PT, MPH
Has been a physical therapist since 1995. After a decade working at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle’s level 1 trauma hospital, she was inspired to pursue a master’s degree in public health that radically changed her approach to physical therapy and led her to open a private practice, Insight Physio PLLC. Andra’s clinical practice at Insight Physio focuses on a biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain, women’s health, and pediatrics. She collaborates with mental health professionals for the care of complex patients. She teaches therapeutic yoga and mindfulness classes for people experiencing chronic pain or other chronic illnesses.
Andra has focused on continuing education course work that integrates a mind-body approach to health care. These include yoga teacher certification with specialty in trauma informed yoga, mindfulness instructor training, NEAR sciences (neuroscience, epigenetics, ACEs and resilience) teacher training, Explain Pain, Postural Restoration Institute courses, Center for Mind Body Medicine facilitator training, and most recently the advanced level course work with the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.
In addition to clinical practice Andra collaborates on community-based projects teaching about the social determinants of health and a biopsychosocial approach to health and healthcare. She has developed curriculum and guest lectures for teachers/special-ed staff and middle school, high school , and midwifery students. Central to her biopsychosocial model is a deep understanding of the stress response and the health effects of stress and adversity. When we view patient care through the lens of the stress response, we begin to connect important dots between symptoms, beliefs, behavior and life circumstances.
Course Instructions
Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page.
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(LMS-VA-13)
This course offers recommendations to help develop rapport with Primary Care staff as well as ways to increase the Primary Care PTs caseload.
Primary Care physical therapy offers many challenges and opportunities for physical therapists. This course offers recommendations to help develop rapport with Primary Care staff as well as ways to increase the Primary Care PTs caseload.
Learning Objectives:
Analyze the most common communication options in Primary Care.
Share examples of a musculoskeletal review class that can be shared with Primary Care staff.
Discuss the benefits of discussing injuries with staff in Primary Care.
Highlight the benefits of Primary Care staff/students observing the PT in Primary Care.
Provide example handouts that may be used in Primary Care to build rapport with staff.
Discuss beneficial Primary Care meetings for the PT to attend.
Highlight ten strategies to increase Primary Care caseload.
Review the importance of issuing durable medical equipment (DME) in Primary Care.
Review sample case scenarios highlighting strategies to build rapport with staff.
Brandon I. Peterson
DPT, Cert. MDT, ATC
Dr. Brandon Peterson has practiced physical therapy at the Sioux Falls VA Healthcare system since 2013. He created a Primary Care (PACT – Patient Aligned Care Team) physical therapy program at the Sioux Falls VA in 2016 and has since worked in Primary Care full time. In 2017, he was appointed the Chair of Embedding Physical Therapists into Primary Care across VISN 23 (Veterans Integrated Services Network). Due to the success of this program, Dr. Peterson and other members of VISN 23 submitted the Primary Care PT program into the VA Shark Tank competition. In 2020, the program was awarded a promising practice and later a national diffusion project. Dr. Peterson currently serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Primary Care Physical Therapy National Diffusion project through the VA Diffusion of Excellence. The goal of the project is for every VA or CBOC (Community Based Outreach Clinic) to embed physical therapists into their PACT team by 2025.
Course Instructions
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Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page.
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(DEI-ADA-22)
This course teaches how to design fully accessible “entry-to-exit” experiences for people with disabilities, from first contact through service completion. Learners will explore common accessibility barriers and practical tools used by federal agencies to identify and remove obstacles across the entire customer journey. This course is available until 12/31/2026. No CEU is offered for this course.
Meeting the needs of customers and clients with disabilities starts before first contact and continues through every step of their experience. This course shows you how to design a complete entry-to-exit accessibility journey using proven strategies and real-world practices from federal agencies that serve millions of people with disabilities each year.
Key Features:
This course is available until 12/31/2026
Cost:
$99 PT/PTA members
$50 Post-Professionals
$25 Students
$200 Non-Members
CEU: There is no CEU offered for this course.
Learning Objectives
1. Identify the components of an "entry to exit" experience
2. Understand the barriers to look for based on different disabilities
3. Learn tools and resources for barrier mitigation
Jeremy Buzzell
Branch Manager, National Park Service
Jeremy Buzzell has been working in the disability field for more than two decades. He began his career as a special education teacher and disability program coordinator for schools and non-profits, then entered Federal service as a Presidential Management Fellow with the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at the U.S. Department of Education. Jeremy spent eight years at the U.S. Department of Education working on programs to support education, employment, and community living for individuals with disabilities. He also was honored to spend a year-and-a-half working on disability legislation for the late Senator Edward Kennedy. Jeremy then moved to the Transportation Security Administration as the manager of Disability Policy and Outreach responsible for ensuring that airport security was accessible to travelers with disabilities. He worked for the Chief of Support Operations at the Library of Congress prior to joining the National Park Service to oversee its accessibility efforts in 2014.
Course Instructions
Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page.
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(DEI-Micro-22)
This course examines how microaggressions and implicit bias related to race, privilege, power, and ableism show up in education, healthcare, and the workplace. Participants learn to recognize different types of microaggressions and apply practical strategies to reduce harm and promote more inclusive environments. This course is available until 12/31/2026. (0.2 CEU / 2 contact hours)
This presentation explores microaggressions and implicit bias of race/ethnicity, privilege, power and ableism that occur in education, academe, the workplace, and in clinical practice. Descriptions and examples of the types of microaggressions are provided. The perspective of targets, or microaggressees; perpetrators, or microaggressors; bystanders; and, allies is presented. Strategies for eliminating microaggressions and implicit bias are provided that pertain to microaggressees, microaggressor, bystanders and allies.
Key Features:
This course is available until 12/31/2026
Cost:
$99 PT/PTA members
$50 Post-Professionals
$29 students
$200 Non-members
Earn CEU: 0.2 (2 contact hours)
Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Describe microaggressions and the types of microagressions
2. Explain the impact of implicit bias and microaggressions on targets
3. Formulate a plan to eliminate microaggressions
Noma Anderson
PhD
Dr. Noma Anderson is Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Vermont. She is a speech-language pathologist with areas of expertise in multicultural aspects of communication sciences and disorders, health and educational disparities, language acquisition, and microaggressions. She has served ASHA as President and Vice President for Academic Affairs and has been Deputy Director of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing. She is a Fellow and recipient of Association Honors from ASHA.
Her degrees are from Hampton Institute (B.A.), Emerson College (M.S.), and University of Pittsburgh (PhD).
Course Instructions
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Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page.
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(ABPTRFE-RCI)
This training course is required for all individuals who will complete the APTA Resident Competency Evaluation Instrument. This course familiarizes users with the evaluation instrument and consists of 5 modules: (1) introduction, (2) core competencies defined, (3) rating scale and definitions, (4) significant concerns - providing comments, and (5) instrument administration and copyright laws.
This training course is required for all individuals who will complete the APTA Resident Competency Evaluation Instrument. This course familiarizes users with the evaluation instrument and consists of 5 modules: (1) introduction, (2) core competencies defined, (3) rating scale and definitions, (4) significant concerns - providing comments, and (5) instrument administration and copyright laws.
Course Instructions
Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page.
Need Assistance?
For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org.
(DEI-FDN)
This course equips participants with practical tools to recognize unconscious bias, understand power and privilege, and respond to microaggressions in healthcare and professional settings. Learners will build skills in allyship and bystander intervention to help create more inclusive and equitable environments. This course is available until 12/31/2026. (0.6 / 6 contact hours)
This course examines how unconscious bias, power, privilege, and microaggressions shape experiences in healthcare, education, and professional settings. Participants gain practical tools to recognize bias, reduce harm, and build more inclusive and equitable environments through everyday actions and allyship.
Key Features
This course is available until 12/31/2026
Cost:
$100 for PT, PTA, Post-Professional, and Student Members
$300 for Non-Members
CEU: Earn 0.6 CEUs
Course Details
Video 1: Unconscious Bias in the Health Professions
Explores where unconscious bias comes from, how it influences clinical and professional decision-making, and practical strategies to reduce its negative impact.
Video 2: Power, Privilege, and Microaggressions
Examines identity, power dynamics, and dominant cultures, and how these factors contribute to microaggressions in healthcare and professional environments.
Video 3: Responding to Microaggressions through Allyship
Provides allyship and bystander intervention frameworks to help participants respond to harm, support others, and foster respectful, accountable workplaces.
Diana Lautenberger
MA
Diana Lautenberger, MA, manages the Association of American Medical College's gender equity portfolio as co-lead of the AAMC's Gender Equity Lab. She also serves as a faculty member for the AAMC's leadership development seminars for junior and midcareer women and directs research projects related to faculty and staff workplace issues, specifically focused on diversity and inclusion, gender equity, and culture and climate.
Previously, she led various leadership and workforce engagement initiatives aimed at faculty development for AAMC. Responsible for curriculum design and implementation, she oversaw two leadership development programs for faculty to equip them with leadership skills needed to deal with the impending changes of the academic and health care environments.
She holds a masters degree in art education, with a focus on curriculum design and creative thinking as a driver of equity and solution to address systemic oppression. She is part of several organizations in the Washington, D.C. area, that use artistic expression to explore concepts of racism, sexism, and social justice.
Course Instructions
Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recordings.
Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page.
Need Assistance?
For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org.
(LMS-MHS-1)
This course introduces the science of stress and its impact on complex patient care, helping clinicians apply a stress-informed, integrative approach in physical therapy practice. As Part 1 of the Reframing the Complex Patient series, it lays the foundation for understanding stress physiology, chronic stress effects, and key risk and protective factors that influence patient outcomes. This course is available until 12/31/2026. (0.2 CEU / 2 contact hours)
This course is Part 1 of the Reframing the Complex Patient series, available for individual purchase. This course introduces a stress-informed, integrative approach to caring for complex patients by placing stress science at the center of clinical decision-making. Participants will explore stress physiology, the health effects of chronic stress, biobehavioral coping mechanisms, social determinants of health, and key concepts such as allostatic load and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), with direct application to physical therapy practice.
Interested in the full three-course series?Click here to explore the complete Reframing the Complex Patient program.
Key Features
This course is available until 12/31/2026
Cost:
$99 for PT, PTA, Post-Professional, and Student Members
$149 for Non-Members
Earn CEU: 0.2 (2 contact hours)
Andra DeVoght
PT, MPH
Has been a physical therapist since 1995. After a decade working at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle’s level 1 trauma hospital, she was inspired to pursue a master’s degree in public health that radically changed her approach to physical therapy and led her to open a private practice, Insight Physio PLLC. Andra’s clinical practice at Insight Physio focuses on a biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain, women’s health, and pediatrics. She collaborates with mental health professionals for the care of complex patients. She teaches therapeutic yoga and mindfulness classes for people experiencing chronic pain or other chronic illnesses.
Andra has focused on continuing education course work that integrates a mind-body approach to health care. These include yoga teacher certification with specialty in trauma informed yoga, mindfulness instructor training, NEAR sciences (neuroscience, epigenetics, ACEs and resilience) teacher training, Explain Pain, Postural Restoration Institute courses, Center for Mind Body Medicine facilitator training, and most recently the advanced level course work with the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.
In addition to clinical practice Andra collaborates on community-based projects teaching about the social determinants of health and a biopsychosocial approach to health and healthcare. She has developed curriculum and guest lectures for teachers/special-ed staff and middle school, high school , and midwifery students. Central to her biopsychosocial model is a deep understanding of the stress response and the health effects of stress and adversity. When we view patient care through the lens of the stress response, we begin to connect important dots between symptoms, beliefs, behavior and life circumstances.
Sarah Wenger
PT, DPT
Sarah Wenger, PT, DPT, FNAP and Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist is the Physical Therapy Services Director for the Philadelphia Department of Health. In this role she is developing and directing a new program through the city’s Ambulatory Health Services that provides physical therapy to city residents who are uninsured or otherwise have limited access to services. She is also an adjunct professor at Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions where she was previously a professor for 17 years. She teaches the pathophysiology series where she develops students’ reasoning skills in the context of chronicity and complexity across the biopsychosocial spectrum. Dr. Wenger enjoys working with chronic biopsychosocial dynamics and teaching others how to care for patients with complex needs. Her treatment focuses on interprofessional collaboration, patient education, and building self-efficacy that empowers patients to manage their chronic conditions as independently as possible. As part of an interprofessional team, Dr. Wenger developed a chronic pain clinical reasoning model and psycho-education program called Power Over Pain. Dr. Wenger has published and presented on a range of topics related to her areas of expertise in chronic pain, complexity and chronicity, trauma-informed care, under-resourced populations, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional care and education.
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