Continuing Education
Give your career a boost.
Ivy provides access to high-quality and innovative post-professional education.
Looking to get a leg up in your physical therapy career? Ivy offers a well-rounded collection of courses for pediatric and orthopedic clinicians across various disciplines and specialty services. Our continuing education programs include in-person, virtual and on-demand learning. To help your reach your full potential, we partner with industry-leading education providers. Start growing your career today!
As an Ivy teammate, you’ll enjoy these benefits:
- $1K annual con ed allowance; new grads receive an additional $1K
- Two education PTO days per year
- Unlimited MedBridge education
- Course discounts and free seats
Upcoming Courses
The Autism Project: Supporting Self-Regulation
AUGUST 27th
Challenging behaviors impact classroom learning, time in the community, and the family dynamic. The goal of this training is to provide basic information about a variety of positive behavior supports that can be used to teach key skills to students with autism. This training provides participants with information and tools to help parents and professionals view challenging behavior through a different lens.
Ivy Education: ACL Injuries, Rehab, and Return to Sports Considerations
SEPTEMBER 21st
Despite significant surgical advancements in and effort paid to ACL-injured patients, rates of secondary ACL injury remain very high in athletic patient populations. This course is a comprehensive summary of the current state of ACL injures and post-ACLR care.
Ivy Education: Running Analysis and Treatment
SEPTEMBER 22nd
This interactive, evidence-based course will teach attendees how to analyze and coach proper running mechanics. Techniques will be based on Pose Methods© running principles for treatment, and the most recent research on running mechanics’ role in injury prevention.
2024 Course Catalog
June
Know to Change: Idiopathic Toe Walking
Description: This course will teach clinicians to develop interventions based on etiologies to produce successful long-term outcomes. Through an organized evaluation procedure, specific data will be used to direct the clinician to potential etiologies. Causes and appropriate intervention strategies are identified in order to utilize a systematic approach to developing an effective treatment plan. This course challenges the clinician to ask the correct questions in order to form a systematic approach to treating the child who “toe walks.”
| Course Details | |
|---|---|
| Cost | $369 |
| CEUs | 11.5 Contact Hours (This includes course on June 8 as well) |
| Date | June 6-7, 2024, 10:00am-4:30pm EST |
| Location | Live-Virtual |
Know to Change: In Depth Clinical Applications Using an Etiological Approach
Description: Expand your evaluation and treatment knowledge for toe walking previously learned in Liesa’s Therapeutic Evaluation & Management of Toe Walking (Pediatric Equinus Gait). Using her systematic approach, clinical application skills will be further enhanced through case analysis using the Act! (Assessment Criteria for Toe walking) as a guided, evidence-based, detailed, decision making process. Applying Liesa’s comprehensive toe walking specific evaluation to cases, clinicians will learn to identify an etiology-based problem list, choose suitable, appropriate, and feasible interventions and develop a relevant plan of care specific to the problems of each individual child.
| Course Details | |
|---|---|
| Cost | $50 |
| CEUs | 7 (This includes course on June 6-7 as well) |
| Date | June 8, 2024, 10:00am-4:30pm EST |
| Location | Live-Virtual |
Ivy Education: Comprehensive Evaluation and Treatment of Toe Walking – With Lower Extremity Serial Casting
Description: This course is for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who treat children with idiopathic toe walking, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, or other medical or non-medical reasons for toe walking. This course begins with typical gait development from infancy to adolescence, enabling you to recognize gait deviations from an early age. Using an evidence-based approach, differential diagnosis and treatment plans will be discussed based on evaluation and examination findings. Conservative, evidence-based treatment strategies will be presented to effectively and efficiently remediate deficits in range of motion, strength, gait, and balance.
| Course Details | |
|---|---|
| Cost | $475 |
| CEUs | Pending |
| Date | June 22-23, 2024, 10:00am-4:30pm EST |
| Location | ABC Pediatrics/Ivy Rehab for Kids – 7591 Tylers Place Blvd, West Chester Township, OH 45069 (Directions) |
July
The Autism Project: Visual Supports in Practice
Description: This training provides an understanding on how to create and use visuals to better support individuals with autism and related developmental disabilities (DD) by increasing independence, promoting communication, and reducing challenging behaviors in the classroom and at home. Participants will learn how to teach, “wait”, “help” and how to ask for a “break” using visual supports. They will also learn about Social Narratives and other strategies used to explain a given situation and provide strategies to navigate it. Lastly, we will learn about how to use a countdown timer for successful transitions.
| Course Details | |
|---|---|
| Cost | $30 |
| CEUs | 2 Contact Hours |
| Date | July 12, 2024, 9:00am-11:00am EST |
| Location | Live-Virtual |
August
The Autism Project: Supporting Self-Regulation
Description: Challenging behaviors impact classroom learning, time in the community, and the family dynamic. The goal of this training is to provide basic information about a variety of positive behavior supports that can be used to teach key skills to students with autism. This training provides participants with information and tools to help parents and professionals view challenging behavior through a different lens. Discussion related to skill deficits, coexisting conditions, and possible motivation of behaviors will help professionals and parents create positive behavior supports to help build healthier interactions and a successful environment.
| Course Details | |
|---|---|
| Cost | $30 |
| CEUs | 2 Contact Hours or .2 CEUs |
| Date | August 23, 2024 |
| Location | Live-Virtual |
September
Ivy Education: ACL Injuries, Rehab, and Return to Sports Considerations
Description: Despite significant surgical advancements in and effort paid to ACL-injured patients, rates of secondary ACL injury remain very high in athletic patient populations. This course is a comprehensive summary of the current state of ACL injures and post-ACLR care. Primary focus of the course is to consider how ACL anatomy, healing after ACLR, assessment of physical strength and function, and known injury mechanisms and correlates can be utilized in order to make the best determination of readiness to return to sport after ACLR. This course is appropriate for PTs, PTAs, PAs, and ATCs, who manage care and advise on activity clearance for these patients after surgery. Through the material covered in the course, attendees will have a thorough understanding on managing the post-ACLR athlete through a structured protocol of exercise and training towards criteria-based functional tests in order to minimize risk for secondary ACL injury to either knee.
| Course Details | |
|---|---|
| Cost | $450 |
| CEUs | 7 Contact Hours |
| Date | September 21, 2024 |
| Location | Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy – 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016 (Directions) |
Ivy Education: Running Analysis and Treatment
Description: This interactive, evidence-based course will teach attendees how to analyze and coach proper running mechanics. Techniques will be based on Pose Methods© running principles for treatment, and the most recent research on running mechanics’ role in injury prevention. This course will be a combination of lecture, lab, demonstration, and practice of performing video analysis. Attendees will come expecting to engage in light jogging and drill activities and should wear athletic shoes and apparel to that regard. This course is appropriate for clinicians that are interested in assessing and analyzing root cause for running injuries and learning how to coach and teach a patient how to run with less joint force and muscle strain, as a means of effectively treating runner injuries while reducing recurrence of injury.
| Course Details | |
|---|---|
| Cost | $450 |
| CEUs | 7 Contact Hours |
| Date | September 22, 2024 |
| Location | Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy – 210 N Avenue E, Cranford, NJ 07016 (Directions) |
October
Coming Soon
Description: Coming Soon
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| Cost | $x.xx |
| CEUs | Pending |
| Date | TBD |
| Location | TBD |
November
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| CEUs | Pending |
| Date | TBD |
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December
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| Cost | $x.xx |
| CEUs | Pending |
| Date | TBD |
| Location | TBD |
