Evidence Based Wellness and Prevention Practices: A Continuing Education/Continuing Competence Credit Workshop
Tai Chi and the PT: Extending a Continuum of Care 8 CCU’s
The core of this training is based on an (US Dept of Health and Human Services) Agency on Aging approved, evidence based wellness and prevention tai chi program: Tai Chi Moving for Better Balance.
This activity has been reviewed and certified by the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy FSBPT for the period 2/12/2013 – 2/12/2014. This certification is recognized by: Arizona, Delaware, District of Columbia, Indiana, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina,Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin: 8 CCU (Continuing Competence Units). The Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners has reviewed the course and approved .8 CEU (Continuing Education Units)
The American Tai Chi and Qigong Association has reviewed and approved this activity for .7 CEU
Schedule:Â (Bring a Colleague-BOTH get $50 off!)
Marriott Farmington   June 1
Marriott Farmington  Sept 21
Marriott Rocky Hill  Oct 19
Marriott Norwich Nov 2
Or Schedule an In house presentation at your practice location!
Learn a clinically proven individual and small group therapeutic activity, mostly lab based training: learn a brief tai chi form, learn to implement a reliable, evidence based prevention and wellness program: Balance/Fall Prevention, Tai Chi for Parkinson’s Disease, Depression, Pain Management.
Activities In a simulation of a community based program practice, and role play as student and teacher the participant learns the movements, and “experiences†nature of the 
intensity of this “gentle practice†and compares it with traditional therapy. Role playing as “studentâ€, participants directly experience teaching methodology, analyzing and practicing trunk and extremity, upper and lower body movement discreetly, and then synthesize the holistic, coordinated exercise. Role playing as “teacher†and “studentâ€, participant partner groups learn to analyze tai chi movements for correct application of principles by experiencing tai chi’s traditional kinesthetic assessment (center/base of support/stability) from the instructor, and then from each other.Â
Objectives
1. Review/Analyze relevant literature in class discussion, examine therapeutic elements of tai chi movement:
Identify, practice, and learn therapeutic elements of evidence based, CDC recommended “Moving for Better Balance†Tai Chi Program movements or “exerciseâ€.
Identify elements of therapeutic evidence based prevention and wellness program protocol: frequency, intensity, duration, pre and post testing, and program fidelity.
2. Incorporate elements of evidence based Tai Chi into practice based prevention and wellness intervention programs, as Treatment Option or Adjunct: Small group therapy, individual intervention.
3. Tai Chi Teachers and Therapists learn and develop competencies from the “same pageâ€:
Assess: appropriateness of Tai Chi as a post-rehab strategy, and refer to a community based Tai Chi class or program for therapy adjunct, or as evidence based prevention and wellness activity.
Evaluate: Use program protocol to evaluate community based TC programs to determine value as Tai Chi for therapy adjunct or complement.
Establish: community based Tai Chi programs.Â