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CONTINUING EDUCATION

Michael Mocny, PT and Monica Mocny, PT, have recently completed a course entitled Total Joint Replacement and Rehabilitation. This course was sponsored by the Florida Orthopaedic Institute (www.floridaortho.com) and was taught by leading orthopedic surgeons and physical therapists in the specialty of joint replacement surgery and subsequent rehabilitation.

It is our mission, at Active Physical Therapy, to be experts in orthopedic rehabilitation and to remain current on the cutting-edge surgical procedures and up-to-date rehabilitation techniques. State-of-the-art medicine now allows you to be pain free in your joint movements. With the advancement of surgical technologies and rehabilitation techniques you can be more active with the help of the staff at Active Physical Therapy. It might be the time for you to take that old joint out and get a new high-tech replacement. After you and your surgeon have made that decision, it is time to consult with your Active Physical Therapy physical therapist to establish a plan to regain your activities.

Course Title:
Total Joint Replacement (Arthroplasty) and Rehabilitation

Aim of Course:
Provide the latest achievements in joint replacement surgery
and subsequent rehabilitation.

Before Surgery:
Pre-surgical phyiscal therapy can make a significant difference in the post-operative recovery. The pre-surgical consultation will address home safety and hospital preparation. Also, it is strongly advised that anyone considering total joint replacement, should embark upon an exercise program before surgery for strength training and weight reduction to improved pre-surgical fitness.

After Surgery:
Rehabilitation begins when your surgeon says you may begin physical therapy. Your physical therapist will establish a plan to reach your goals. The treatment will consist of therapeutic exercises, transfer training, gait training, emergency evacuation skills, balance activities, precaution education, fitness training, and advice for sports participation.

Michael Mocny, PT also recently completed a course for advanced training in manual therapy techniques involving an osteopathic treatment approach known as strain and counterstrain

Course Title:
Strain and Counterstrain I for the Spine

Aim of Course:
Learn a new approach to pain reduction and movement restoration.

Course Description:
Teaching passive positional procedures that place the body in positions of greatest comfort, thereby relieving pain by reduction and arrest of inappropriate proprioceptor (position sensor) activity that maintains somatic dysfunction (bodily ailment). A manual therapeutic method in which a mild overstretching applied in a direction opposite to the false and continuing message of strain which the body is suffering.

Main Topic Areas Discussed:
Treatment of the neck, back, chest, and pelvis.

Equipment Feature:
Upper Body Ergometer manufactured by Cateye

This piece of exercise equipment is ideal for cardiovascular training using the upper body as the moving force. Patients that have suffered an injury to some portion of their lower body can now get a vigorous workout with this state of the art exercise apparatus. The Upper Body Ergometer or UBE features heartrate monitoring technology for safe and intensity effective exercise.

Listen to what one of our patients says about exercising on the UBE:

“This cardiovascular training is great for a transition to other forms of cardiovascular training equipment such as the treadmill.”
                               – Coach Jim Hargrove

Referring to those that for some reason have a temporary lower body disability which does not allow conventional cardiovascular exercise.