Upcoming Continuing Education Courses

Advanced Level CEU Course
Musculoskeletal Examination and Interventions of the Dancer
using Regional Interdependence as a Framework
July 31, 2009

DEL: Minding the Body: Healing the Dancer
July 6-9, 2009

Principles of Dance Medicine CME Course
Summer 2010

Continuing Education Courses: Dance Educators

Dance Health: Minding the Body, Finding the Balance
a program of the 92nd Street Y, Harkness Dance Center

July 6-10, 2009

Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) at the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center has invited the HCDI staff to teach a 1-week intensive course for dance educators.

The goal of this course is for dance teachers to build a foundation for understanding the biological, pyschosocial and environmental factors that influence a dancer's current and future health. Through direct dance experience, discussion and the production of a culminating project, students will learn basic functional anatomy and biomechanics, injury prevention and conditioning, nutritional concerns for the dance population, and human development. At the conclusion of the course students will be able to integrate and apply the knowledge gained into their every day dance environment.

DEL 2008-2009 programming

For more information and to register please go to www.92Y.org/harkness or call 212-415-5552

Continuing Education Courses: Healthcare Professionals

Musculoskeletal Examination and Interventions of the Dancer using Regional Interdependence as a Framework

July 31, 2009

New! Advanced Level
One Day Continuing Education Course

The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries is offering a new and innovative continuing education course for advanced clinicians that will focus on the regional interdependent examination model for the dancer-patient. 

Through lectures, laboratory sessions and live demonstrations led by world-renowned experts in the field, clinicians will refine their powers of observation and evaluation process to consider factors beyond the site of injury in order to optimize treatment effectiveness. 

Topics will include: 

• What is regional interdependence?
• Relevance of regional interdependence to the dance population:  a review of normal biomechanics of the lower quarter during gait, relevé, plié and passé.
• Seeing patterns in complex systems:  preventing limitations in current evidence from blinding the clinician. 
• Review of patterns commonly seen among dancer patients who present with the top three lower extremity complaints.
• Practical, hands-on labs to evaluate local and non-local influences on lower extremity complaints.

Course Announcement (.pdf)

Course Agenda (.pdf)

Audience

Course Fee

Registration

Faculty

Course Location

Transportation, Hotel and Local Information

Audience: This course is intended for licensed healthcare practitioners with a basic knowledge of dance medicine.  Completion of our “Principles of Dance Medicine” course, or the equivalent, is highly recommended.

Target Audience:  Certified Athletic Trainers, Chiropractors, Nurse Practitioners, Osteopaths, Physicians, Physician Assistants and Physical Therapists.

The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (P2540) is recognized by the Board of Certification, Inc. to offer continuing education for Certified Athletic Trainers. This program has been approved for a maximum of 8 hours of Category A continuing education.

The New York Society for Continuing Education in Physical Therapy, Inc (NYSCEPT) has certified this course to provide a maximum of .82 continuing education units.

Course Level: Advanced

Course Fee:
Early Bird : $295 (register on or before May 29th)
Regular : $325 (registration deadline July 15th)
On-site: $375 (space permitting)

NYU employees receive a discounted registration, please contact our office for more details.

Cancellation Policy:
An administrative charge of $100 will apply to cancellation notices received prior to July 15, 2009.  Cancellation requests must be submitted in writing via postal mail, fax or email and postmarked no later than the above date.  Cancellation requests made after July 15, 2009 will NOT be accepted.

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Faculty:
Mark Bookhout, PT, MS, FAAOMPT- President, Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Specialists, Inc.; Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Osteopathic Medicine- Michigan State University
Marshall Hagins, PhD-Associate Professor, Division of Physical Therapy, Long Island University; Consultant and Educational Advisor, Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases
Marika Molnar, PT, LAc- Director, Westside Dance Physical Therapy; Director of  PT Services, New York City Ballet
Marijeanne Liederbach, PhD, ATC, PT-Director of Research and Education, Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

Course Location and Local Information:
Conference activities will commence at NYU School of Medicine’s Smilow Auditorium located within the NYU Medical Center. The Medical Center’s main entrance is 550 1st Avenue between 31st and 32nd Streets. Map of the NYU Medical Center

The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries is not responsible for travel or hotel arrangements purchased for attendance at this meeting.  We strongly recommend that you purchase travel insurance in the event that unforeseen circumstances, such as severe weather, affect the meeting or your travel plans

Hotel Accommodations
Blocks of hotel rooms will not be reserved for course registrants. Manhattan has an abundance of hotels to meet the needs of most travelers. We have provided a list of hotels in the immediate vicinity of the conference location.

Travel and Local Transportation
Airport transportation, directions and transportation around town, parking garages, etc.

Local Information
Local restaurants, photo copy centers, currency exchange centers

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Principles of Dance Medicine: Clinical Management of the Dancer Patient will return in the Summer of 2010

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