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Instructional Level: Intermediate

Reducing Fall Risk Beyond Just Gait & Balance

Reducing Fall Risk Beyond Just Gait & Balance


6 Hours Instructional Level: Intermediate
Video
Delivery Type
$105

Description:

Course release date: 5/1/2026

Course Overview

This course will offer practical solutions to some of the most challenging real-life situations you face with patients who fall or are at risk of falling. We will review how to better predict and prevent falls with effective fall prevention tools and strategies. We will also introduce the latest advances in fall prevention, including details from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and their detailed fall prevention initiative, STEADI (Stop Elderly Accidents and Injuries).

Full Course Description
Course release date: 5/1/2026Course OverviewThis course will offer practical solutions to some of the most challenging real-life situations you face with patients who fall or are at risk of falling. We will review how to better predict and prevent falls with effective fall prevention tools and strategies. We will also introduce the latest advances in fall prevention, including details from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and their detailed fall prevention initiative, STEADI (Stop Elderly Accidents...

Goals & Objectives:

Course Overview

This course will offer practical solutions to some of the most challenging real-life situations you face with patients who fall or are at risk of falling. We will review how to better predict and prevent falls with effective fall prevention tools and strategies. We will also introduce the latest advances in fall prevention, including details from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and their detailed fall prevention initiative, STEADI (Stop Elderly Accidents and Injuries).

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing this course, the learner should be able to:

  • Investigate the latest advances in fall prevention and the most up-to-date information from the CDC STEADI initiative.
  • Practice comprehensive assessments to identify issues with balance, visual-spatial functioning, proprioception, and other root causes of fall risk.
  • Inspect available interventions and choose appropriate ones for safely restoring balance, functional mobility, and occupational performance in patients with varying root causes of fall risk.
  • Demonstrate home exercise programs that build strength and coordination in patients with limited mobility and function.
  • Investigate ideas and plans that will protect older adults and others at high risk of injury from falling.
  • Debate home-based risk factors that contribute to falls and determine how these risk factors can be reduced in daily activities.

 

Goals & Objectives:

Course Overview

This course will offer practical solutions to some of the most challenging real-life situations you face with patients who fall or are at risk of falling. We will review how to better predict and prevent falls with effective fall prevention tools and strategies. We will also introduce the latest advances in fall prevention, including details from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and their detailed fall prevention initiative, STEADI (Stop Elderly Accidents and Injuries).

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing this course, the learner should be able to:

  • Investigate the latest advances in fall prevention and the most up-to-date information from the CDC STEADI initiative.
  • Practice comprehensive assessments to identify issues with balance, visual-spatial functioning, proprioception, and other root causes of fall risk.
  • Inspect available interventions and choose appropriate ones for safely restoring balance, functional mobility, and occupational performance in patients with varying root causes of fall risk.
  • Demonstrate home exercise programs that build strength and coordination in patients with limited mobility and function.
  • Investigate ideas and plans that will protect older adults and others at high risk of injury from falling.
  • Debate home-based risk factors that contribute to falls and determine how these risk factors can be reduced in daily activities.

 

Disclosures:

Audience/Accreditations and Approvals
This course is designed for the following healthcare professions (select your profession for details):
Athletic Training, Occupational TherapyPhysical Therapy

Contact Hours
Upon sucessful completion of this course, you will be awarded the following contact hours (based on profession):
Athletic Training: 6
Occupational Therapy: 6
Physical Therapy: 6

If you require special accommodations, please contact Colibri Healthcare Support by clicking here: Contact Us or by using the chat functionality.

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:

Audience/Accreditations and Approvals
This course is designed for the following healthcare professions (select your profession for details):
Athletic Training, Occupational TherapyPhysical Therapy

Contact Hours
Upon sucessful completion of this course, you will be awarded the following contact hours (based on profession):
Athletic Training: 6
Occupational Therapy: 6
Physical Therapy: 6

If you require special accommodations, please contact Colibri Healthcare Support by clicking here: Contact Us or by using the chat functionality.

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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