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Looking to get a leg up in your therapy career? Ivy offers a well-rounded collection of courses for pediatric and orthopedic clinicians across various disciplines and specialty services. To help you reach your full potential, we partner with industry-leading education providers. Start growing your career today!

As an Ivy teammate, you will enjoy these benefits:

$1K annual continuing education allotment; new graduates receive an additional $1K
Two education PTO days per year
Unlimited MedBridge education
Free education offerings and course discounts with our preferred partners

Upcoming courses

The Autism Project: Supporting Self-Regulation

AUGUST 27th

Challenging behaviors impact classroom learning, time in the community, and the family dynamic. The goal of this training is to provide basic information about a variety of positive behavior supports that can be used to teach key skills to students with autism. This training provides participants with information and tools to help parents and professionals view challenging behavior through a different lens.

Ivy Education: ACL Injuries, Rehab, and Return to Sports Considerations

SEPTEMBER 21st

Despite significant surgical advancements in and effort paid to ACL-injured patients, rates of secondary ACL injury remain very high in athletic patient populations. This course is a comprehensive summary of the current state of ACL injures and post-ACLR care.

Ivy Education: Running Analysis and Treatment

SEPTEMBER 22nd

This interactive, evidence-based course will teach attendees how to analyze and coach proper running mechanics. Techniques will be based on Pose Methods© running principles for treatment, and the most recent research on running mechanics’ role in injury prevention.

June

Know to Change: Idiopathic Toe Walking

Description: This course will teach clinicians to develop interventions based on etiologies to produce successful long-term outcomes. Through an organized evaluation procedure, specific data will be used to direct the clinician to potential etiologies. Causes and appropriate intervention strategies are identified in order to utilize a systematic approach to developing an effective treatment plan. This course challenges the clinician to ask the correct questions in order to form a systematic approach to treating the child who “toe walks.”

Course Details
Cost	$369
CEUs	11.5 Contact Hours (This includes course on June 8 as well)
Date	June 6-7, 2024, 10:00am-4:30pm EST
Location	Live-Virtual

Know to Change: In Depth Clinical Applications Using an Etiological Approach

Description: Expand your evaluation and treatment knowledge for toe walking previously learned in Liesa’s Therapeutic Evaluation & Management of Toe Walking (Pediatric Equinus Gait). Using her systematic approach, clinical application skills will be further enhanced through case analysis using the Act! (Assessment Criteria for Toe walking) as a guided, evidence-based, detailed, decision making process. Applying Liesa’s comprehensive toe walking specific evaluation to cases, clinicians will learn to identify an etiology-based problem list, choose suitable, appropriate, and feasible interventions and develop a relevant plan of care specific to the problems of each individual child.

Course Details
Cost	$50
CEUs	7 (This includes course on June 6-7 as well)
Date	June 8, 2024, 10:00am-4:30pm EST
Location	Live-Virtual

Ivy Education: Comprehensive Evaluation and Treatment of Toe Walking – With Lower Extremity Serial Casting

Description: This course is for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who treat children with idiopathic toe walking, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, or other medical or non-medical reasons for toe walking. This course begins with typical gait development from infancy to adolescence, enabling you to recognize gait deviations from an early age. Using an evidence-based approach, differential diagnosis and treatment plans will be discussed based on evaluation and examination findings. Conservative, evidence-based treatment strategies will be presented to effectively and efficiently remediate deficits in range of motion, strength, gait, and balance.

Course Details
Cost	$475
CEUs	Pending
Date	June 22-23, 2024, 10:00am-4:30pm EST
Location	ABC Pediatrics/Ivy Rehab for Kids – 7591 Tylers Place Blvd, West Chester Township, OH 45069 (Directions)

July

The Autism Project: Visual Supports in Practice

Description: This training provides an understanding on how to create and use visuals to better support individuals with autism and related developmental disabilities (DD) by increasing independence, promoting communication, and reducing challenging behaviors in the classroom and at home. Participants will learn how to teach, “wait”, “help” and how to ask for a “break” using visual supports. They will also learn about Social Narratives and other strategies used to explain a given situation and provide strategies to navigate it. Lastly, we will learn about how to use a countdown timer for successful transitions.

Course Details
Cost	$30
CEUs	2 Contact Hours
Date	July 12, 2024, 9:00am-11:00am EST
Location	Live-Virtual

August

The Autism Project: Supporting Self-Regulation

Description: Challenging behaviors impact classroom learning, time in the community, and the family dynamic. The goal of this training is to provide basic information about a variety of positive behavior supports that can be used to teach key skills to students with autism. This training provides participants with information and tools to help parents and professionals view challenging behavior through a different lens. Discussion related to skill deficits, coexisting conditions, and possible motivation of behaviors will help professionals and parents create positive behavior supports to help build healthier interactions and a successful environment.

Course Details
Cost	$30
CEUs	2 Contact Hours or .2 CEUs
Date	August 23, 2024
Location	Live-Virtual

2024 Full Course Offerings

September

Ivy Education: ACL Injuries, Rehab, and Return to Sports Considerations

Description: Despite significant surgical advancements in and effort paid to ACL-injured patients, rates of secondary ACL injury remain very high in athletic patient populations. This course is a comprehensive summary of the current state of ACL injures and post-ACLR care. Primary focus of the course is to consider how ACL anatomy, healing after ACLR, assessment of physical strength and function, and known injury mechanisms and correlates can be utilized in order to make the best determination of readiness to return to sport after ACLR.

This course is appropriate for PTs, PTAs, PAs, and ATCs, who manage care and advise on activity clearance for these patients after surgery. Through the material covered in the course, attendees will have a thorough understanding on managing the post-ACLR athlete through a structured protocol of exercise and training towards criteria-based functional tests in order to minimize risk for secondary ACL injury to either knee.

Course Details
Cost	$450
CEUs	7 Contact Hours
Date	September 21, 2024
Location	Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy – 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016 (Directions)

Great Lakes Seminars: Mobilization of the Cervical and Thoracic Spine and Ribs

Description: Many clinicians lack a structured approach to treat dysfunctions involving the neck, shoulders and upper thoracic spine, while often overlooking rib cage involvement. This course will give you a strong foundation to treat these areas as well as an understanding of where to look next if you’re not getting the desired outcome with your spine patients.

We make a complicated region of the body simple to diagnose and treat, giving you a wide array of treatment approaches to choose from that best fit your patients’ needs. Techniques include Muscle Energy Technique (MET) and direct articulations to the cervical and thoracic spine and ribs. All course material is evidence-based and every technique is repeated multiple times until you feel comfortable and confident. When you leave this class, you’ll walk away with a straightforward, yet comprehensive foundation for treatment of the neck, upper back and ribs.

As with all our manual therapy courses, this course is at least 75% hands-on lab, and will give you skills you can use immediately upon returning to the clinic.

Course Details
Cost	$650
CEUs	16.5 Contact Hours
Date	September 21 – 22, 2024
Time	8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Location	Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy- 16260 Bennett Road, Culpeper, VA 22701(Directions)

October

Coming Soon

Description: Coming Soon

Course Details
Cost	$x.xx
CEUs	Pending
Date	TBD
Location	TBD

November

Coming Soon

Description: Coming Soon

Course Details
Cost	$x.xx
CEUs	Pending
Date	TBD
Location	TBD

December

Cogent Steps: Emergency Response for the Athlete

Description: The Emergency Response for the Athlete (ERA) course is intended for physical therapists, athletic trainers, nurses, and physicians who seek specialized training in sideline and venue emergency management of the athlete. It is only offered as an in-person course.

Core skills include primary and secondary assessment, ethics and legal review, care of the athlete through the age spectrum, athletes in adaptive sports, dermatology, medical and traumatic emergencies, and EMS operations. Additional enrichment modules include asthma, anaphylaxis, pulse oximetry, and care of the spine-injured athlete.

The ERA course is hybrid learning starting with online narrated presentations and a 70-question test; this is followed by a 2-day, in-person course at a host site. Upon successful completion of the ERA, the participant is granted a 3-year ERA certification and continuing education credits (20 CCUs for PTs and 17.5 Cat. A CCUs for ATs).

Course Details
Cost	$605.00
CEUs	20
Date	December 7 – 8, 2024
Location	Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy- 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016 (Directions)