Handouts & Presentations

At the 2017 Spring Conference, MPTA will have over 30 speakers presenting on 24 topics over the three day conference.  

All available handouts and presentations will be posted here prior to the conference.  MPTA does not print handouts - we are going green with electronic handouts that registrants can access from their phones, computers, and tablets at the conference. If you prefer hard copies of presentations please print them ahead of time.

Friday, April 7th

MORNING SESSIONS (8:00am - 12:00pm)

• Teaching Patients About Pain
• Developmental Coordination Disorder in the Preterm Infant: Incorporation of movement strategies to promote typical developmental progression.
• Increasing Access to Physical Therapy to Rural Patients Via Telerehabilitation
• Incorporation of the Hemiparetic Upper Extremity During Physical Therapy
  

AFTERNOON SESSIONS (1:00pm - 5:50pm)

• Safe Exercise Progression in Heart Failure
  
• Exercise and Chronic Pain: Let's Change the "E" Word to "Fun Movement"
• What's the Point? Dry Needling, Acupuncture, & the MO PT Practice Act
  
• Exercise and Multiple Sclerosis: A Community Based Wellness Approach to Exercise
  
• Scoliosis Physical Therapy Using the Schroth Method
• The Development of an ACL Screening Tool: From the Lab to the High School Gym
• Lung Ausculation: What is it? Where is it? Why is it?
  

Saturday, April 8th

MORNING SESSION (8:00am - 10:00am)

• #ChoosePT/Solving the Marketing Mystery

AFTERNOON SESSIONS (1:00pm - 4:50pm)

• Building an All Star Facility Line-Up: Develop Excellence in Clinical Education, Increase Facility Visibility, Mentor Students and New Graduates, and Expect Professional Behaviors
• How To On-Board Today's Millennial and See Them Winning
• Explore the Floor: Uncovering Sources of Pelvic Dysfunction
• Engaging the Engaged Millennials - #FreshPT, #DPTStudent, #PTAStudent
• The Missouri Practice Act - A Resource to Good Practice
  
• Adaptive Sports for Individuals with Cerebral Palsy
  • Adaptive Cycle Websites
  • Adaptive Cycling Resources
  • APTA Toddler Fitness Websites
  • FACT Sheet from APTA - Role & Scope in Fitness Health Promo
  • St. Louis Adaptive Sport Websites
    

Sunday, April 9th

MORNING SESSIONS (8:00am - 11:50pm)

• Pills, Pain Patients & PT: How the Opioid Epidemic Impacts Physical Therapists' Legal and Ethical Obligations
  
• Pediatric Throwing Injuries: Assessment and Analysis of the Pediatric Overhead Athlete
  
• Effectiveness of Graded Motor Imagery for Patients with Recently Diagnosed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• Medicare Outpatient Documentation: Clearing up the Myths
• Rehabilitation and Return to Sports Outcomes for Pediatric ACL Injuries
• Neuro for the Non-Neuro Therapist: A Review and Discussion of Neurological Physical Therapy Assessment and Interventions to Maximize Client Outcomes