KT1 Fundamental Concepts, Screening/Muscle Test, & Muscle Applications (To be taken in conjunction with KT2) The KT1 course is designed to introduce the Kinesio® Taping Method.

Learn the fundamental concepts of the Kinesio® Taping Method and the unique properties and use of Kinesio® Tex Tape. Lab sessions provide ample time to practice screening and muscle testing created for the enhancement of your KT skills and muscle applications for both the upper and lower body. Upon completion of KT1, participants will be able to apply the Kinesio® Taping Method to relax overuse syndromes, stimulate weak muscles and decrease pain and swelling.

KT2 Advanced Concepts & Corrective Techniques Upon completion qualifies for KTA Level 2 Membership

KT2 builds on material learned in KT1. Learn about the six Corrective Techniques (Mechanical, Functional, Space, Fascia, Ligament/Tendon and Lymphatic) and discuss their application in a variety of clinical conditions. Lab sessions, provide ample time to practice applying these techniques to a variety of upper and lower body conditions. Upon completion of KT2, participants will be able to discuss and apply the KT Method to orthopedic & neurological conditions.

Note: Participants who successfully complete the required Fundamental and Advanced Kinesio Taping® (KT1, KT2, & KT3) courses are eligible to take the Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner (CKTP) exam through the KinesioTaping Association (KTAI). Upon passing this exam with a score of 80% or better, practitioners will be granted the CKTP title along with all the associated rights and benefits.

Options to Complete Your Certification:

KT3 - 8 hr Kinesio® Taping course - Clinical Concepts and Advanced Taping Methods

KT3 -12 hr Kinesio® Taping course with additional Focus on Pediatrics/ Neuro

KT3 - 12 hr Kinesio® Taping course with additional Focus on the UE

 KT3 - 12 hr Kinesio® Tapingcourse with additional Focus on Orthopedic Conditions and Sports Injuries

KT3 - 12 hr Kinesio® Taping course with additional Focus on Rehabilitation & Orthopedic Conditions of the UE

 

Program subject to change. Participants are cautioned to apply new information and skills within the scope of state licensure law.

 Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, including the lecture, demonstration and lab, the participant will be able to:

• Explain and apply the concepts of the Kinesio Taping Method.
• Describe the unique qualities of the Kinesio Tex® Tape.
• Understand the principles of Kinesio Tex® Tape application.
• Utilize and demonstrate application skills in guided laboratory sessions.
• Describe the various cutting techniques and their clinical applications.
• Apply a time-efficient method to decrease muscle spasm, pain and swelling.
• Apply various taping techniques for treatment of the spine and upper / lower extremity dysfunction.

CE Credits

KT1 8 contact hours
KT2 8 contact hours

Accepted by many professional credentialing organizations and state professional regulatory boards. Check with your state board/credentialing agency to verify. Certificate of attendance will be issued to all participants upon completion of the course and may be used for CEU verification of credits. CE Credits vary by state. Please check with your state board/certifying agency to confirm conversion of contact hours to CE. See links below.

Physical Therapy Board of California: The Physical Therapy Board of California recognizes Rehab Education, LLC as an approval agency to approve providers offering continuing competency courses for CA licensed PTs and PTAs. This course is approved for 16 contact hours.

D.C. Board of Physical Therapy: Course approved by the D.C. Department of Health: Health Regulation and Licensing Administration on behalf of the D.C. Board of Physical Therapy Approval #DC-1139

Delaware Examining Board of Physical Therapy and Athletic Trainers: This course has been approved by the Delaware Examining Board of Physical Therapy and Athletic Trainers.

Idaho Physical Therapy Board: This course has been approved by the Idaho Physical Therapy Board. Approval #5538

Illinois State Board of Physical Therapy: Approved CE Sponsor by Illinois State Board of Physical Therapy, Division of Professional Regulations, #216.000227 for courses completed by 09-30-2012..

Indiana Chapter, APTA: This course has been approved for 16 credit hours by the Indiana Chapter, APTA. Approval # 00390IC11 (Course must be completed by 4/20/2012).

Maryland State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners: This course has been approved by the Maryland State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 1.6 CEUs. (Course must be completed by 3-7-2015)

North Carolina Board of Physical Therapy Examiners: This course has been approved by virtue of Illinois CE Provider Approval #216.000227 for 16 contact hours. (Course must be completed by 09-30-2012)

New Jersey State Board Physical Therapy: This course has been approved by the New Jersey State Board Physical Therapy for 16 contact hours. Approval #208-2012. (Course must be completed by 01-31-2014 )

NY State Physical Therapy Board: Rehab Education, LLC is recognized as an approved of PT and PTA continuing education by the NY State Education Department's Board of Physical Therapy provider for courses completed by 05-13-2013.

PA State Board Physical Therapy: This course has been approved by the Pennsylvania State Board Physical Therapy for 16 contact hours. Approval #PTCE001894. (Course must be completed by 12-31-2012).

NCBTM Approved Provider #451708-11 for courses completed by 08-05-2014: Rehab Education, LLC, is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education provider.

BOC Approved Provider #P8271: (For courses completed by 12-31-2012). Rehab Education, LLC is recognized by the Board of Certification, Inc. to offer continuing education for Certified Athletic Trainers.

AOTA Approved Provider #6177. These states currently recognize AOTA Approved Providers for OT continuing education either in regulatory language or by formal written communication to AOTA:

Alaska Arkansas Delaware District of Columbia Illinois Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Minnesota Mississippi Missouri

Montana Nevada New Hampshire Ohio Oregon Oklahoma Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia

*NBCOT...National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapy (view PDU requirements)
+HTCC... Hand Therapy Certification Commission  (view recertification requirements)

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Agenda:

Day One: KT1

7:30 - 8:00	Registration
8:00 - 8:10	Instructor Introduction and Bio
8:10– 11:35	Intro to Kinesio®Taping Concepts, Theory, History; Physiology &Pathology; Tape Qualities & Finger Demo; Intro five major Physiological Effects & Skin Function; KT Muscle Function & Basic Application Concepts; Sacrospinalis Demo Lab; Upper Trap Demo Lab
11:35	Break
10:50 - 12:00	KT Circulatory/Lymphatic Function; Joint Function; Prep, Precautions; Intro to KT Assessment Tests; Q&A
Noon	Lunch
1:00 - 3:00	KT Cervical Flexion & Extension Assessments; Cervical Paraspinals & Scalenes Anterior Application Lab; KT Trunk Flexion& Pectoral Girdle Assessments
3:00	Break
3:15 - 4:55	Pec Major & Rhomboid Lab; KT Hip Rotation, Gluteus Medius & Leg Raise Assessments& Gastroc & Soleus Lab
4:55 - 5:40	Assessment Q&A; KT1 Review & Q&A, Conclusion

Day Two : KT2

8:00 - 10:00	Overnight Responses, Assessment & KT1 Review, Q&A; Basic Concepts of Corrective Techniques, Tension Guidelines & Precautions; Mechanical Corrections & Lab; Intro to Fascia Correction
10:00	Break
10:20 - 11:40	Fascia Correction Cont.; Fascia Lab
11:40	Lunch
12:40 - 2:35	Intro to Space Correction & Lab
2:35	Break
2:55 - 5:15	Intro to Ligament/Tendon Correction, Functional Correction , & Circulatory Correction& Labs; Precautions, Contraindications & Rules
5:15 - 5:40	Glossary Review ; Application Requests; Q&A; Conclusion

 

Our Certified Kinesiotaping Instructors Include:

Graceann G. Forrester PT, DPT, CKTI is a New York State licensed Physical Therapist. She has earned Bachelor's degrees from College Miseracordia, Dallas PA and New York University. She completed her Doctorate in Physical Therapy through Boston University.

In her 20 years of practice, Dr. Forrester has provided treatment programs for acute care patients, for community hospicare and youth correctional facilities. She has offered PT to elementary school children and taught clinical application classes for Ithaca College's Physical Therapy program, Ithaca, NY. She uses her Certifications as a KinesioTaping Instructor, Personal Trainer and Pilates Instructor to develop training regimens for competitive athletes of all ages. As a Board Member of Hope Unites, an “international ecumenical organization specializing in humanitarian aid and disaster relief”, Dr. Forrester has offered educational programming to improve transportation and therapeutic positioning for children with disabilities at an orphanage in Port Au Prince, Haiti.

Internationally, Dr. Forrester serves as the Curriculum Chair, for the KinesioTaping Association –of the Americas: Board of Education. She continues to teach Kinesiotaping certification courses across the United States and Europe. She resides in NY with her husband and four children.

Teresa Juodawlkis Pesci, MPT, CKTI,
received her Masters in Physical Therapy from the University of California: San Francisco. She has worked at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto, California, and the William Beaumont Rehab Center in Birmingham, Michigan. She currently works at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland as a senior physical therapist and provides home PT services through the Child and Family Support Program. Her interest areas are the birth to three population, infant massage, yoga for the special child and therapeutic taping. Mrs. Pesci has been using a variety of taping practices throughout her career which has focused exclusively on pediatrics. She is a certified Kinesio®Taping instructor through the Kinesio® Taping Association.

Rosemary Schrauth, OTR, CLT, CKTI

is a clinician and educator at Cedar Haven Rehabilitation Services in WI. She specializes in myofascial release and lymphedema treatment. Rosemary has taken many courses in myofascial release, other soft tissue techniques and kinesiotaping and successfully incorporates these techniques into the treatment of edema and lymphedema. Ms. Schrauth became a certified lymphedema therapist in 1998 and a certified kinesiotaping instructor in 2003 and updated in 2008. She presents courses nationally on MFR, Manual Edema Mobilization and Kinesiotaping. She has been a guest speaker at Mount Mary College and Concordia University and a visiting clinical instructor at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. She has written articles on the use of kinesiotape in the treatment of lymphedema.

Amy Stahl, MS, PT, CKTI. Amy Stahl received her Bachelor's degree in Exercise Science in 1994 from the University of Arizona and her Master's in Physical Therapy from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1997.

Amy presently is a private practice owner of an outpatient orthopedic clinic and has had tremendous success with Kinesio® Taping clinically, with wide acceptance in the medical community. She also had the wonderful opportunity to go to the first International Kinesio® Taping Symposium in 1999 and was privileged to teach Kinesio® Taping seminars in Singapore and Malaysia.

 

Kim Rock Stockheimer, MS, OTR/L, CKTI. Kim is a 1984 graduate of the University of Kansas Occupational Therapy Program. She received her Masters of Science degree in Exercise Physiology 2002 at the University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse. She has had opportunities to work in a variety of settings including hospital acute care, rehabilitation, long-term care, burn unit, outpatient hand therapy, private practice, and lymphedema clinic. She has taught in Occupational Therapy Assistant programs at Austin Minnesota and at Anoka Minnesota. She has taught at the Occupational Therapy Department at the University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse. She has published articles and research in the Occupational Therapy Forum, American Journal of Occupational Therapy,  Journal of Hand Therapy, and British Lymphology Book of Abstracts. Kim co-authored the book, Kinesio Taping for Lymphoedema and Chronic Swelling. Kim is certified in Manual Lymphatic Treatment by the Lymphedema Services of Cedar Haven Rehabilitation Agency. She is also certified as a Kinesio® Taping Practitioner and Instructor by the Kinesio® Taping Association.  Kim currently holds a seat on the Kinesio Taping Education Board.  Kim has lectured internationally in England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Japan, Korea, Canada and Russia.

Jim Wallis, ATC, MS, CKTI. Jim Wallis graduated from Washington State University in 1983 and then received his Certified Athletic Trainer designation from NATA. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the school of Community Health and Head Athletic Trainer for Portland State University. He has been working with the Kinesio® Taping Method since first being introduced to the technique in Japan in the fall of 1994. Jim has led instructor workshops in the USA, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, and Australia. He has presented twice at the International Kinesio® Taping Association Symposium in Tokyo, Japan, and was recognized in 2000 for his distinguished service as an Instructor of the Kinesio® Taping Method. In 2003 he co-wrote Clinical and Therapeutic Applications of the Kinesio® Taping Method with Dr. Kenzo Kase and Tsuyoshi Kase. Recently, he began work in Japan on a DVD about combining the Kinesio® Taping Method with traditional athletic taping methods.

Andrea Wolkenberg, PT, MA, CKTI. Andrea has been a practicing physical therapist for almost 32 years. She graduated in 1979 from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Allied Medical Professions with a Bachelor's degree in physical therapy. She also holds a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology in 1986 from the New School for Social Research in New York City. In 2001, Andrea became a Certified Kinesio Taping Instructor.

Although she has spent many years in sub-acute and long term care, her clinical expertise is in manual therapy, having taken numerous continuing education courses with James Cyriax, Laurence Jones, John Mennell, Shirley Sahrmann, Stanley Paris, John Barnes, an many others. She is currently the Director of Physical Therapy at Spine Options, a pain management center in White Plains, NY, specializing in the conservative treatment of back and neck pain. She is also the President of SPINE SOLVERS INC., her own company which provides physical therapy services to individuals, injury prevention and workplace safety seminars to businesses, and Kinesio Taping seminars to health care professionals.

Tuition

Note: Early Bird rates are in effect if your application is postmarked four weeks or more prior to registration.	Early Bird Rate	Late Registration Rate
Kinesiotaping® KT1/KT2	$519.00	$574

Dates & Locations

Feb 11 - Feb 12, 2012:Chicago, IL area (Harvey)  Instructor: Kim Rock Stockheimer, MS, OTR, CKTI

Mar 10 - Mar 11, 2012:Atlanta, GA area (Marietta)  Instructor: Andrea Wolkenberg PT MA CKTI

Apr 14 - Apr 15, 2012:Gainesville, FL  Instructor: Graceann Forrester, PT, DPT, CKTI

Apr 14 - Apr 15, 2012:Parsippany, NJ  Instructor: Andrea Wolkenberg, PT, MA, CKTI

Apr 28 - Apr 29, 2012:Albany, NY  Instructor: Graceann Forrester, DPT, CKTI Location: Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital

May 5 - May 6, 2012:Sayre, PA  Instructor: Graceann Forrester, PT, DPT, CKTI

May 19 - May 20, 2012:San Diego, CA  Instructor: Amy Stahl, MS, PT, CKTI

May 19 - May 20, 2012:Washington, DC  Instructor: Andrea Wolkenberg, PT, MA, CKTI

Jun 2 - Jun 3, 2012:Kansas CIty, MO  Instructor: Kim Rock Stockheimer, MS, OTR, CKTI

Sep 22 - Sep 23, 2012:Portland, OR  Instructor: Jim Wallis, MS, ATC, CKTI

Oct 13 - Oct 14, 2012:Urbana, IL

Oct 27 - Oct 28, 2012:Freehold, NJ  Instructor: Andrea Wolkenberg, MA, PT, CKTI

Dec 1 - Dec 2, 2012:Tampa, FL  View directions and hotels

Please note:
Live courses require a minimum number of participants to operate. You will receive a written confirmation when minimum is met. Do not purchase non-refundable travel until you receive official written confirmation.

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