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Ischemia Reperfusion: The Hidden Injury
Presented by:
Valerie Phelps, PT, ScD, OCS, FAAOMPT
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 10am CDT
Have you ever heard a patient say that it has taken them a year to recover from surgical anesthesia? After understanding the ischemia reperfusion injury, you will realize that their fatigue and difficulty recovering is actually related to return of blood flow to the limb, and likely not to the anesthesia at all.
This webinar brings to light the latest information on the musculoskeletal and systemic effects of tourniquet release in orthopedic surgeries. While most understand the effects of ischemia of a limb during ischemia, few practitioners are aware of the even more detrimental local and global effects when the limb is reperfused. Understanding particularly the latter, will bring a better understanding of post-surgical patient conditions and lead to greater success in patient outcomes.
This webinar will:
- provide insight into a pathological process called the ischemia-reperfusion injury
- shed light on what happens to the muscles of a limb that has experienced a surgical tourniquet, as well as the deleterious systemic effects that can hinder recovery during rehab
- help foster clinical reasoning and critical thinking about how this might change perspective and treatment of post-surgical and/or the aging patient
- offer post-surgical rehab strategies to optimize patient outcomes, based on the knowledge of ischemia reperfusion injury
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with Lorimer Moseley, PhD, FACP
and Tasha Stanton, BScPT, MSc, PhD

Applying the Kaltenborn-Evjenth Concept in Today’s Outcome Oriented Clinical Practice Environment
with John R. Krauss, PT, PhD, FAAOMPT
and César Hidalgo García, PT, OMT, PhD

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with Deborah Riczo, PT, DPT, MEd

Equipping Future Physical Therapists for the Pain Epidemic
with Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD., Louie Puentedura, PT, DPT, PhD, OCS, GDMT, FAAOMPT., Kory Zimney, PT, DPT, PhD., Stephen Schmidt, PT, MPhysio, OCS, FAAOMPT

Overcome back and neck pain:
Strategies for pain sufferers and those who treat them
with Dr. Yoav Suprun, DPT, OCS, Dip. MDT, CSCS

SMART SOMATIC SOLUTIONS: Learn ways to tap into your body’s sense of movement
with Stacy Barrows, PT, DPT, GCFP, NCPT

Incorporating SenMoCOR into Comprehensive Lower Quarter Musculoskeletal Management
with Phillip S. Sizer Jr., PT, PhD, FAAOMPT
and Brent K. Denny, PT, ScD, COMT

Practicing as a Manual Therapist: Why “just OK” is not OK
with Emilio Puentedura, PT, DPT, PhD, OCS, GDMT, CSMT, FAAOMPT

Two Pain Revolutionaries on the Couch
with David Butler, B.Phty, M.App.Sc, EdD and Lorimer Moseley, PhD, FACP

Changing the Course of Back Pain the MDT (Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy) Way
with McKenzie Institute® USA faculty members
Cora Aytona, DPT, OCS, Dip. MDT, FAAOMPT and Gary Dykes, PT, OCS, Dip. MDT
