Webinars
A Case Based Learning Experience: Cervicothoracic
Description
This dynamic and fun two-hour session will use case-based learning, covering a real-world, outpatient orthopedic case to facilitate an active learning experience. Application of patient-centered and evidence-informed practice will be included with an emphasis on clinical reasoning and meta-cognitive processes utilizing the test retest model. The session is designed to help learners understand how to effectively obtain a thorough subjective examination that supports hypothesis development, planning of an appropriate objective examination and supportive treatment that seek to implement the hypothetico-deductive reasoning model.
The case will be specific to the cervicothoracic spine with focus on differential diagnosis including both red flags and musculoskeletal conditions. The hypothesis generation will start in the subjective and continue through the objective exam and treatment based on emerging data and patient response.
Course Schedule:
6:30-6:45: Introductions and Intro to Case
6:45-7:30: Subjective exam review
7:30-8:00: Objective exam review
8:00-8:15: Treatment review
8:15-8:30: Wrap-up/Questions
About The Speaker(s)
Erin Zimbal, DPT, earned her doctorate of physical therapy in 2012. She went on to complete an orthopedic residency program with Evidence in Motion in 2014 and became an orthopedic certified specialist in 2015. In 2023, she completed an orthopaedic and manual physical therapy fellowship through Bellin College becoming a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT). She has been practicing in outpatient physical therapy with Bellin Health/Emplify since the start of her career and now serves as the team facilitator for several of their clinics. She is active as a residency mentor, instructor at orthopaedic skills labs, lab assistant at Bellin College, and serves on the APTA district board. In addition to orthopaedics and manual therapy, her passions include lifestyle medicine and type 1 diabetes management during exercise. She is developer and leader of a specialty service line for athletes with type 1 diabetes at Bellin Health/Emplify.
