Fractures and Beyond with Bill Boissonnault
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Fractures and Beyond with Bill Boissonnault
Wednesday, April 25
8:30 am – 12:30 pm ET
1055 N Fairfax St, Alexandria, VA 22314
CEU Credits: 0.4 CEUs (4 Contact Hours)
Live Seminar Cost: $100 with all proceeds going to the NACR
Please join Bill Boissonnault, PT, DPT, DHSc, FAPTA, as he discusses the different types of fractures, the clinical manifestations associated with each, patient risk factors, symptom investigation, and physical examination special tests.
Upon completion of this seminar you will be able to:
1. Compare and contrast traumatic, pathologic, and bony stress-reaction injuries including patient risk factors, symptom characteristics, and findings from physical examination and diagnostic imaging.
2. Recognize patterns of patient examination red flag findings associated with fracture risk that lead to a patient referral.
3. Initiate a patient referral for diagnostic imaging.
4. Describe the strengths and limitations of commonly used imaging modalities such as plain films, CT scan, MRI, and bone scan.
5. Describe the guidelines for appropriate use of plain films for patients post trauma to the knee, ankle or foot, and cervical spine regions, and for patients with low back pain.
6. Use history and physical examination findings to screen for post fracture complications including DVT, PE, infection, neurovascular compromise, and mal-union, delayed union, and nonunion.
7. Pursue additional information associated with differential diagnosis by the physical therapist.
