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Tips for Structuring and Progressing Balance Exercises Virtually

Enroll for access to the recorded course presented on  February 6th, 2021
Are you training clients online and want to include balance exercises?
Do you want offer more creative balance options for training your clients online with quicker results?

Erica DeMarch, a physical therapist, and the inventor of Balance Matters, will introduce innovative ways to include balance training online.
  • Provide your clients autonomy with multiple choices of balance exercises to add to their circuits that address specific sensory balance challenges, movement strategies and functional tasks.
  • Be more effective with a wide variety of learning styles and learn new ways to cue and provide feedback to your clients.
  • Learn how to provide a balance exercise at any level to help your clients stay in the “Goldilocks zone!"
  • Offer a more enjoyable, memorable experience for patients.

What's included?

  • 45 min interactive lecture and handout of slides
  • 15 min Q&A and sharing of ideas
  • Find the "Goldilocks zone" rate of perceived stability pdf handout
  • Applying motor learning principles to online training pdf handout
  • Recommended equipment & app list 
  • Certificate of Completion

OBJECTIVES: 

EXPAND BALANCE TRAINING with motor learning principles : add motivation, autonomy, external focus of attention and feedback into your sessions

DISCOVER new options with apps and tools to incorporate into your balance circuits and motivate your clients toward greater improvements

• LEARN how to design and progress a balance exercise to be “just right” for your client to be in “Goldilocks zone”.
If an exercise is too easy your client will not see the benefits, if it’s too hard they may lose confidence, self-efficacy and motivation to continue.

You will receive a certificate after passing a 4-question test and course evaluation. You can apply in your own state to utilize the training toward your CEU.
To receive CEU credit most states require a posttest and course evaluation to be completed.

Meet the instructor

Erica DeMarch

Erica DeMarch is CEO and Founder of Step and Connect, a start-up company built to improve balance and mobility for people of all ages and abilities. Over 18 years of expertise in the areas of neuro rehabilitation and vestibular led Erica to develop the core product line of the business, the Balance Matters® System. The patented product incorporates multi-sensory feedback targeting the spatial and temporal parameters of movement to improve balance and maximize motor learning. She holds a Master’s Degree in Physical Therapy from Boston University and is an adjunct faculty member of South College’s Physical Therapy School. Within her local community in Colorado, Erica teaches balance workshops and group exercise classes for older adults and individuals with Parkinson’s Disease. 
Patrick Jones - Course author
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