Video
Instructional Level: Intermediate

Course Outline:

Hour 1

  • Reasons for screening and performing differential diagnosis
  • Red flags for immediate medical attention
  • Guidelines for physician referral

Hour 2

  • Cervical conditions, Differential diagnosis of cardiac, pulmonary, viscerogenic, GI origin, headaches v/s migraines, relevant history questions.
  • Differentiating MSK diagnosis
  • Evidence based treatment strategies, Clinical practice guidelines.
  • Systemic causes of shoulder pain:
    • Adhesive capsulitis, systemic causes of left and right shoulder pain, CVS, Pulmonary, DVT, renal, GI, liver, gynec.  Differentiating MSK Diagnosis
    • Evidence based Treatment for management of shoulder pain

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Neck and Shoulder Differential Diagnosis Guide

Neck and Shoulder Differential Diagnosis Guide


2 Hours Instructional Level: Intermediate
Video
Delivery Type
$59

Description:

This course is designed as a quick reference guide for clinical professionals to perform systemic cervical and shoulder differential diagnosis. Insight is provided to determine the scope of therapy or the need for referring the patient to appropriate medical providers; thus, saving time and resources by identifying red flags. This course is informative with relevant instruction that can be used in clinical practice immediately. It will enhance the practitioner’s evaluation skills and assessment techniques.

Full Course Description
This course is designed as a quick reference guide for clinical professionals to perform systemic cervical and shoulder differential diagnosis. Insight is provided to determine the scope of therapy or the need for referring the patient to appropriate medical providers; thus, saving time and resources by identifying red flags. This course is informative with relevant instruction that can be used in clinical practice immediately. It will enhance the practitioner’s evaluation skills and assessment techniques.

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the professional differential diagnosis of cervical and shoulder pain in relation to systemic illnesses.

Professional Objectives:

  1. Identify the appropriateness for differential diagnosis.
  2. Identify red flags and criteria to refer to emergency medical attention.
  3. Identify the systemic reasons, role of the vital signs and identification of the women risk factors for appropriate referral to the physician.
  4. Recognize the signs and symptoms in conjunction with neck pain to be able to establish a systemic connection.
  5. Recognize the signs and symptoms in conjunction with shoulder pain to be able to establish a systemic connection.
  6. Identify the treatment options based on the latest revised clinical practice guidelines.

Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the professional differential diagnosis of cervical and shoulder pain in relation to systemic illnesses.

Professional Objectives:

  1. Identify the appropriateness for differential diagnosis.
  2. Identify red flags and criteria to refer to emergency medical attention.
  3. Identify the systemic reasons, role of the vital signs and identification of the women risk factors for appropriate referral to the physician.
  4. Recognize the signs and symptoms in conjunction with neck pain to be able to establish a systemic connection.
  5. Recognize the signs and symptoms in conjunction with shoulder pain to be able to establish a systemic connection.
  6. Identify the treatment options based on the latest revised clinical practice guidelines.

Disclosures:

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"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 2 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Athetic Trainers

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Rina Pandya is employed by DENSO Family Health Center and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

Disclosures:

SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND 

"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. All SOD courses are mobile ready.

Contact Hours: 2 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Athetic Trainers

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Rina Pandya is employed by DENSO Family Health Center and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

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