Medical Therapeutic Yoga in America: Complementary & Alternative Medicine in Practice - Using Evidence Based Yoga to Evaluate the Athlete

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Webinar Series:

Medical Therapeutic Yoga in America

Presentation:

Complementary & Alternative Medicine in Practice: Using Evidence Based Yoga to Evaluate the Athlete

CEUs Awarded:

Registration Fee:

Fee: $15 for NATA members/$25 for NATA non-members

Date:

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Time:

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Central (Noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific)

Abstract:

Medical (professional) therapeutic yoga can be an effective modality for assessment and management of injury and dysfunction. Using the systems approach evaluative model can also help prevent injury and assist in shifting from a pathology based to a holistically based health care model. Learn how yoga, when it is applied with evidence based medicine, can be used to optimize patient outcomes, maximize performance, and create effective rehabilitation programs. You will learn how yoga can be used to help evaluate and treat the athlete, understand a new therapeutic evaluative paradigm for use in the athlete, apply evidence based methodology for incorporating yoga in your clinical practice, and learn how to evaluate existing yoga programs for content, safety, and validity.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

Verbalize how medical yoga can be used to help evaluate and treat the athlete
Understand a new therapeutic evaluative paradigm
Apply evidence based methodology for incorporating medical yoga into current rehabilitation programs
Evaluate existing yoga programs for content, safety, and validity.

Presenter:

Ginger Garner, MPT, ATC

Ginger Garner MPT, ATC, is a licensed physical therapist, athletic trainer, and an educator in medical therapeutic yoga, women's health, and holistic pain management.

Ginger is founder of Professional Yoga Therapy (PYT), the first education program for Complementary and Alternative Medicine practice in medical therapeutic yoga in the US. During the last 15 years throughout the US, Ginger has traveled to educate health care professionals about integrative rehabilitation using techniques such as yoga and Pilates, and to raise awareness about improving healthcare and its delivery. Ginger's method is documented in her positively reviewed DVD, Ancient Yoga, New You.

Ginger is a published author who also pens the popular blog about work/life balance and healing arts for mothers, Breathing In This Life. She has been published or featured in the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, Lower Extremity Review, PT Advance, OT Advance, IDEA fit, National Association of Mothers' Centers' Your Wo(man) in Washington, People magazine's Mother and Babies blogroll, USA today, and in local print and radio. Her current projects include writing texts in and teaching continuing education on medical therapeutic yoga, as well as writing a women's health book on medical yoga use during pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond.

Ginger's work extends beyond the border of the US to include Haiti and Afghanistan, where she has worked through since 2008 to improve health care for women and children.

You can reach Ginger at her websites, www.gingergarner.com and www.professionalyogatherapy.org.

Athletic Training Domain:

Injury/Illness Prevention and Wellness

Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis

Treatment and Rehabilitation

Organizational and Professional Health and Well‐being

Course Level:

Essential and Advanced