Physical Therapy Certifications

Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute ↗

This two-day online course, developed by an instructor with extensive experience working with professional athletes, will cover an evidence-based, immediately-applicable skills related to pelvic floor rehabilitation for the athlete, covering treatment philosophies for the pelvis and pelvic floor and global considerations of how these structures contribute to human movement. Topics covered will include urinary incontinence, as well as the intricacies of athletic movement and how energy transference throughout the kinetic chain is crucial to rehabilitation approach, injury prevention and high performance.

Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute ↗

Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute provides continuing education courses for medical professionals seeking to improve their practice skills for the treatment of pelvic floor/girdle dysfunction and numerous other conditions affecting patients' lives. The certification available through the Institute is called the Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification (PRPC). This certification is awarded to those therapists who successfully apply to sit for the exam and receive a passing score on the computer-administered multiple-choice examination. Link to PRPC

Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute ↗

This online course provides the health care professional with a unique and timely opportunity to explore multi-dimensional connections between physical therapy, pelvic rehabilitation, and nutritional sciences. NPPR is a 2.5-day content-laden and cutting-edge experience designed for clinicians ready to access organized and clinically relevant nutrition information accessible to all experience levels and practice settings. Participants will be introduced to the latest research in nutrition through immersive lectures and hands-on labs. The course will cover essential digestion concepts, nourishment strategies and the interconnected nature of physical and emotional health across the lifespan.

United Dry Needling Education ↗

This is an advanced online course designed for pelvic rehabilitation clinicians who have completed basic or intermediate dry needling coursework and wish to expand their pelvic floor treatments to include dry needling. The online option is a blend of recorded lectures and high quality demonstration videos that teach you how to add dry needling to your pelvic floor treatments! Participants will learn safe and practical electrical dry needling techniques to selected muscles of the pelvic floor including treatment examples for coccydynia, sacral pain, urogenita, and anorectal pain in patients with female and male anatomy.

Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute ↗

This is a satellite course comprised of 10 hours of prerecorded lectures followed by 14 hours of live, interactive remote learning. A satellite means that participants will be gathering in a given location and watching the instructor present remotely on the same screen. During labs, participants will pair up and be guided by the on-site lab assistants at the satellite course location. This course was designed to provide a thorough introduction to female pelvic floor function, dysfunction and treatment interventions. This course is geared to the therapist who wants to synthesize the information and apply it to individual treatment programs for urinary incontinence or the musculoskeletal components of urogynecologic pain syndromes such as chronic pelvic pain (CPP), vulvar pain, and interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS).

Biofeedback Training & Incontinence Solutions ↗

This is a beginner to intermediate course designed to provide a basic working knowledge of biofeedback assisted behavioral therapy for bladder, bowel, and pelvic pain disorders. This workshop meets all of the didactic and practicum requirements for the BCIA Certification in Pelvic Muscle Dysfunction. Upon completion of the course, participants will have the knowledge to begin treating patients with these disorders. Link to Course

Institute Of Physical Art ↗

This course is a lab-intensive introduction to the Functional Manual Therapy® system for the management of the pelvic girdle. In the Functional Manual Therapy® (FMT) treatment approach, management of the pelvic girdle is an essential aspect of patient care for the restoration of efficient mobility, alignment and motor control of the human system. Participants will be instructed to utilize a clinical reasoning framework for examination, evaluation, and treatment planning for the management of the patient with decreased function secondary to neuro-musculoskeletal impairments of the pelvic girdle.

Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute ↗

Coccyx pain is a common, frustrating condition for the patient who often has difficulty sitting, one of the most important tasks necessary for daily activity.This two-day continuing education course allows the therapist to focus on this vital, sensitive area to learn and refine skills in assessment and treatment. Anatomy, pathology, and detailed palpation skills of the coccyx region is instructed. Link to Coccydynia

Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute ↗

As more men seek help from pelvic rehabilitation providers for the recovery from prostate surgery, therapists are seeking more detailed information about the procedure, program development, and rehabilitation approaches that are effective for men with post-prostatectomy dysfunction. This course will cover detailed male pelvic anatomy and pathology, surgical interventions for and recovery from prostatectomy. Also included will be relevant conditions such as TURP (transurethral resection of the prostate).

Juliewiebept ↗

Piston Science is a new approach to adult rehab, recovery and return to fitness. The viewer is introduced to a dynamic team of muscles, inclusive of the relationship between the diaphragm and pelvic floor. That team works together to balance muscular forces and pressures creating an integrative model of dynamic central stability. Total run time for the online course is approximately 15 hours of content.

Physiological Oncology Rehabilitation Institute ↗

Starting January 2018, participants will start their PORi training with a 2-day PORi Foundation Course. Once they have completed the PORi Foundation Course, they can advance their specialty skill set by building additional specialty modules (e.g. Head & Neck Cancer; Breast Cancer, Pelvic & GI Cancers) onto the PORi Foundation Course. This will enable participants to pursue one or more specialized fields of interest within oncology rehabilitation. Each specialist module will be an assessment-based certificate program. Link to PORi

Evergreen Certifications ↗

Training Requirements:
A minimum of 24 hours of continuing education in specific vision rehabilitation areas. Pre-approved, 3rd party trainings that meet the training requirements for certification include:

Certified Functional Vision Specialist Course by PESI - certification fee included! Link to PESI course

Education Resources, Inc. ↗

The course will focus on the assessment and treatment of patients with vertigo and dysequilibrium from unusual vestibular causes. The course is designed for clinicians (PT & OT) with prior vestibular rehabilitation course work and clinical experience. Material covered will include advanced techniques for treating anterior and horizontal canal BPPV, central causes of dizziness (including concussion), identification and treatment of cervicogenic dizziness, chronic subjective dizziness, migraine and other unusual vestibular disorders. This series is one course with 7 short video sessions. Each videos session is 1.5-2 hours. Course Faculty is Richard Clendaniel, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA.

Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Institute ↗

Attaining certification as an APPI Pilates for Rehabilitation Matwork Instructor requires the completion of three matwork courses (Level 1,2 and 3), pre-course requirements, hours of observation, self practice, practice teaching and the certification exam (to be completed after matwork level 3). The matwork Pilates training series has been designed for those teaching in the rehabilitation setting, and is based on the most up to date evidence in spinal stability, pelvic stability, strength/conditioning and pain.
Link to Certification

Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute ↗

In this online version of the Pregnancy Rehabilitation course, methods for performing assessment and treatment by both telehealth/online consultation and in-person visits for our pregnant clients will be considered. Knowing how to safely examine and treat the patient who is pregnant is the goal of this beginner-to-intermediate course. Prior to the live online portion of the course, participants will be able to view pre-recorded lectures at their own pace. In these videos, these pregnancy-related topics will be covered: terminology, fertilization, trimesters, medical testing/interventions, imaging, and medications. Differentiating between false labor, progressive labor, and other musculoskeletal pain will be covered. Understanding typical hormonal and systemic changes during pregnancy will be also be provided,

Southeast Sports Seminars ↗

FAKTR (Functional and Kinetic Treatment with Rehabilitation) incorporates the latest research and evidence-based soft-tissue techniques into a comprehensive rehabilitation system to treat common musculoskeletal disorders and complicated injuries. The concept incorporates Various manual and instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization techniques (IASTM), Cupping, Joint Compression Flossing, Visual queuing of proprioceptive movement, Active rehabilitation with therapeutic exercise, Functional movement training, and BioMechanical Taping. Link to Course

Motivations Inc. ↗

Treating in the ICU can be quite intimidating, especially to the novice and even sometimes the experienced physical therapist. Medically complex patients challenge therapists to use high level clinical decision making skills to ensure optimal patient treatment while maintaining patient safety. This webinar will provide therapists with an overview of examination and treatment tools that can be used to optimize patient outcomes while maintaining safety and efficiency in a highly complex medical environment.

American Institute Of Balance ↗

The American Institute of Balance is excited to announce the Vestibular Rehabilitation and Concussion Management Certification workshop is now available in a hybrid model, consisting of combined online and live components! It is the same content as the well-respected AIB live, 3-day Vestibular and Concussion Rehabilitation Certification Workshop, with less travel and time away from home and work required! This new platform allows the clinician the flexibility to complete the online portion of the course at a self-pace pace without the demand of attending a pre-determined, scheduled workshop. This combined 30-hour course consists of 21 hours of self-paced online content, followed by a one-day, 9.0 hour live, hands-on course.

International Lymphedema and Wound Care Training Institute ↗

This course dives into the specifics of the cancer experience, providing opportunity to treat the whole patient. You will learn comprehensive rehabilitation, including new manual skills and interventions to effectively treat the musculoskeletal, soft tissue and scar tissue restrictions that simultaneously occur with a person going through cancer treatment. Best practice protocols, exercise prescription, documentation tips and invaluable clinical pearls are provided. Advanced lymphatic rehabilitation training is included for active cancer and complex head and neck, breast, trunk and genital lymphedema. Taught by oncology rehabilitation expert, Lisa Marshal.

HomeCEU ↗

This online course utilizes text from the soft cover textbook by Michelle Cameron “Physical Agents in Rehabilitation” ©2012. Presenting a variety of treatment choices supported by the latest clinical research, this 4th edition is your guide to the safe, most effective use of physical agents in your rehabilitation practice. Coverage in this new edition includes the most up-to-date information on thermal agents, ultrasound, electrical currents, hydrotherapy, traction, compression, lasers, and electromagnetic radiation. Straightforward explanations make it easy to integrate physical agents into your patients' overall rehabilitation plans.

Evergreen Certifications ↗

Training Requirements
A minimum of 30 hours of continued education, with 24 hours specific to ADHD assessment and treatment topics; 3 hours specific to psychopharmacology and 3 hours specific to managing ADHD in an rehabilitation setting. Additionally, the candidate must attest that, over the course of their career, he/she has conducted a minimum of 200 clinical contact hours with ADHD-diagnosed clients. Pre-approved, 3rd party trainings that meet the training requirements for ADHD-CCSP certification include: Complete ADHD-CCSP Certification Training Course Bundle by PESI. Link to PESI Course

Therapy Network Seminars ↗

This course will provide participants with essential tools for clinical examination and intervention of persons following a stroke, across the continuum of care. Common impairments, activity restrictions, and participation limitations will be discussed. Evidence based interventions specific to the rehabilitation and recovery of basic mobility following stroke will be presented. Participants will have opportunities to see and work through examples and practice application of information through lecture and hands on labs.

Gold Standard Seminars ↗

Rehabilitation of tendon repairs remains the most challenging diagnosis that hand therapists treat with an abundance of different protocols and orthoses to choose from. Many clinics default to protocols that were established in the 1970’s and 1980’s and have not been updated to what the research now dictates is a better way to treat this population. This course is designed around the most recent evidence in surgical intervention and rehabilitation of flexor and extensor tendons.

Evergreen Certifications ↗

Training Requirements:
A minimum of 18 hours of continuing education in specific stroke rehabilitation areas. Pre-approved, 3rd party trainings that meet the training requirements for CSRP certification include: Stroke Rehab Certification Course by PESI - Certification Included!
Link to PESI course

American Institute of Balance ↗

The American Institute of Balance is excited to announce the Vestibular Rehabilitation Certification workshop is now available in a hybrid model, consisting of combined online and live components. This new platform allows the clinician the flexibility to complete the online portion of the course at a self-pace without the demand of attending a pre-determined, scheduled workshop. This combined 19.5-hour course consists of 12.0 hours of self-paced online content, followed by a one-day, 7.5-hour live course.

After completion of the online component, participants have the option to attend the one-day hands-on clinical competency course. This will be conducted in 11 major US cities as the final component for certification.

Education Resources, Inc. ↗

Learn effective, comprehensive, and evidence-based treatment and evaluation of the number one reason individuals over the age of 70 seek medical attention: Dizziness. Course faculty is Richard Clendaniel, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA.

Education Resources Inc. ↗

This course offers a comprehensive perspective for management of the limb loss patient. Clinical expertise can be difficult to obtain since this population is a small proportion of the rehabilitation caseload. Current research, expert opinions from PT, OT, orthopedic and plastic surgeons, PM&R, prosthetists, as well as patient experiences will be presented. The class addresses the medical issues and common complications that place limbs at risk. Attendees will learn to make educated clinical decisions to improve function.

Motivations Inc. ↗

This 2 day course will discuss the concepts of the physical care and evidence based principals to create results in clinical interventions for stroke, hemiplegia, brain injury, spasticity and general motor control issues. The course will focus on preception and oculomotor deficit remediation and compensation after a neurological event. Occupational and physical therapists and assistants will find this course to be heavily lab based to provide attendees with skills for immediately use for effective strategies in the clinic.

Gold Standard Seminars ↗

Rehabilitation of elbow trauma can be daunting, especially as chronic stiffness sets in. Many clinics default to treatments devoid of clinical evidence. This course provides the most recent evidence in conservative and post-surgical interventions for a variety of elbow traumas. Case studies will be presented and discussed.

Medbridge ↗

Many athletes are missing games secondary to hamstring muscle strains. This course will cover how to rehabilitate hamstring strains and prevent reoccurrence. Topics will include: reporting hamstring strain epidemiology, examining risk factors, providing evidence for prevention of both initial and recurrent injuries, and using current evidence in choosing a rehabilitation process. Additionally the course will show to use clinical milestones to progress athletes’ return to play.

Therapy Network Seminars ↗

Older adults can pose unique challenges for clinicians due to their sedentary lifestyle and potential for complex medical history. Rehabilitation professionals are experts in movement science and should play an integral role in prescription of appropriate physical activity to ensure maximal levels of success with older adults. In order to do this, a thorough functional assessment is necessary to identify the impairments that are most likely causing the activity limitation or participation restriction. The course content will provide you with a better understanding of the available evidence-based functional assessment tools available to evaluate your patient for strength or balance deficits affecting their functional status. Link to Balance Course

Gold Standard Seminars ↗

This course aims to provide an understanding of how vision and visual processing affects persons with brain injury or disease and how therapists can address these needs within a rehabilitation setting. Participants will receive a foundation of the anatomy and neurology of visual processing. The course will then provide an understanding of visual function skills and their effect on occupation. Participants will also be provided with resources and evidenced based screening measures and guidelines for evaluating visual skills and will have the opportunity for hands on learning, administering these tools.

Institute for Athlete Regeneration Education Systems ↗

This course will cover in depth all aspects of running that place these athletes at risk for pathology, including biomechanical movement impairments, training regimen, loading strategies, articular and soft tissue mobility deficiencies, nutrition, and performance training. The most current research will be presented and discussed in a clinically applicable format to allow the clinician to immediately integrate the information into practice. Upon successful completion, participants will become a certified Running Rehabilitation Specialist (RRS).

PESI Inc. ↗

Welcome to the Hesch method. For almost 40 years, Dr. Jerry Hesch has been teaching and applying this unique, evidence-based method of manual therapy — a whole body approach to evaluating and treating movement dysfunction. In this completely self-paced online certification course, you’ll explore the latest and most relevant research regarding interventions for sciatica, low back, pelvic girdle, and hip pain. Hands-on labs and real-life case studies show you exactly how to screen and treat lumbopelvic-hip motion dysfunction.

Therapy Network Seminars ↗

The KettleBall is a unique rehabilitation tool in its design and usage which will help to augment any sound rehabilitation program. This course is designed for rehabilitation professionals who have limited to no exposure to Kettlebells and wish to acquire a solid foundation for using KBs in rehabilitation. This course will go over the history of the KB, basic KB biomechanics, exercise physiology and the basic general lifts utilized in rehabilitation, as well as overall fitness and sports performance training.

PESI ↗

You will discover a plethora of dynamic techniques and assessment tools applicable in every practice and walk away with the essential skills to transform the lives of your patients.
All sessions are designed to offer a solid foundation and then get straight to the information you can use immediately in the clinic — anatomy/physiology, case studies, neuromuscular facilitation techniques, passive and active ROM exercises, guided motor imagery, manual therapies, home programs, and more!
It's neuroscience made simple. This is your chance to get a front-row seat to practical, evidence-based strategies you can use immediately.

Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute ↗

The purpose of this two-day continuing education course is to help therapists understand, evaluate, and treat patients with interstitial cystitis (IC). Material will include background information on the complex condition, the most effective therapy techniques for patients, options for medical management to complement physical therapy, and how to develop a holistic treatment plan and unique self-care regimen for your patients. Link to IC

Institute Of Physical Art ↗

To effectively treat as a Functional Manual Therapist®, one must address the interrelationship between the neuromuscular, soft tissue, and articular systems. PNF offers a dynamic and functional evaluation and treatment approach to this interrelationship based on specific analysis of motor recruitment patterns and Characteristics of Neuromuscular Function. This course progresses from specific shoulder girdle, pelvic girdle, and trunk patterns to weight bearing postures and movements. Content emphasizes the establishment of efficient motor recruitment patterns for rehabilitation of neurological and orthopedic patients and post manipulative techniques.

Dynamic Principles, LLC ↗

The Process-Based Specialist in Movement and Pain (PSMP) is a certification program that was created to help clinicians develop competence, critical thinking, and comfort in the use of a biopsychosocial process-based framework called the Human Rehabilitation Framework (HRF)™.

The HRF stands as a notable advancement in the field of rehabilitation, embodying a scientifically sound, coherent, and individual-centered approach to clinical decision making and treatment. It prompts a transdisciplinary and transdiagnostic approach to tackling physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems in human functioning, marking a new era in rehabilitation.

This coursework is designed for: Physical Therapists, Athletic Trainers, Occupational Therapists, Chiropractors, Physical and Occupational Therapist Assistants, Massage Therapists, Psychologists/Social Workers, Nurses/Nurse Practitioners, Osteopaths, and Physicians.

Education Resources Inc ↗

This course, developed by Mary Massery, will challenge the practitioner to make a paradigm shift: connecting breathing mechanics and postural control with management of trunk pressures. Using Dr. Massery’s model of postural control (Soda Pop Can Model), the speaker will link breathing mechanics with motor and physiologic behaviors (a multi-system perspective). The speaker will present novel research demonstrating the role of vocal folds as postural stabilizers, extending the concept of “core stability” from the vocal folds on the top of the trunk to the pelvic floor on the bottom.

Spinal Cord Injury Seminars ↗

SCI Seminars presents a comprehensive approach to the treatment of the spinal cord injured (SCI) client from onset of injury through acute inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation. Expert presenters from several nationally-recognized facilities share evidence-based and experienced-based treatment techniques and considerations through lecture, video, discussion and lab activities. Participants with all levels of experience will learn to more effectively and efficiently progress their clients with spinal cord injury to reach their highest functional level. Link to Course

Hospital for Special Surgery Education Institute ↗

The HSS Rehabilitation Baseball Overhead Athlete Certification was developed for physical therapists and athletic trainers to master clinical skills related to the treatment and prevention of injury in the overhead athlete. Taught by experts at the #1 orthopaedic hospital in the world and guest faculty, you will gain proficiency and competency in throwing mechanics, examination, clinical decision making and return-to-sport principles.

American Institute of Balance ↗

Vestibular Assessment and Management is AIB’s most comprehensive program, consisting of a complete look at the dizzy patient’s management both from a diagnostic and rehabilitation approach. Learn the full spectrum of care via evidence-based protocols and strategies designed to provide the clinician with the necessary tools to offer a more efficient and productive means of management for the chronic dizzy patient.
This combined 37-hour course consists of 12 hours of self-paced online content, followed by a three-day, 25- hour, live, hands-on course.
After completing the online component, participants will have the option to attend the live, three-day hands-on clinical competency course. The live component consists of 2-days of Vestibular Assessment, focusing on the diagnostic test battery, followed by a one-day course focusing on bedside evaluation, Vestibular Rehabilitation protocols, and the evaluation and treatment of BPPV.

Home CEU Connection ↗

This one-hour course will provide clinicians with an overview of how and why COVID-19 has had such a significant impact on older adults. It will examine the expected clinical presentation in older adult COVID-19 patients in the post-acute phase as well as discuss assessment and treatment interventions. This course will also examine the impact that social isolation has on older adults and how rehabilitation clinicians can make a positive impact on this.

GREAT Seminars & Books ↗

The Geriatric Trained and Certified Clinical Specialist (GTCCS) is the only geriatric certification to earn the approval of the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy. The certification is designed to offer a series of courses, which culminate in a comprehensive examination consisting of written, oral and practical testing to define competency in geriatric rehabilitation. Certification is a four-day process, consisting of a review, and collegial exchange which provides the opportunity for both reviewing and updating the contents of the courses leading to certification. The third day, the written exam is taken followed by the oral exam. The last day is the practical examination with real patients to complete the process. The standard sought is one of excellence, safe application of advanced clinical skills and culmination of all pertinent information and the ability to analyze and plan in the most current and critical fashion to advance healthcare for the geriatric population. The Geriatric Trained and Certified Clinical Specialist is usually held every two to three years in January.

Complete Concussion Management Inc ↗

The Complete Concussion Management (CCMI) program provides partnered clinics with everything needed to implement an effective, evidence-based concussion management program.

Through practitioner education, continuous research updates, state-of-the-art Concussion Testing and Management Software, access to marketing resources and technology tools, the CCMI program has been proven to help our Certified Clinics and Clinicians improve patient outcomes and stay at the forefront of concussion management, treatment, and rehabilitation.
Link to Course

MOTIVATIONS INC. ↗

This 30-hour comprehensive certification program allows the physical therapists to prepare for direct access referrals without a physician’s order through a series of topics offers in a self-study video recording format. The instructional focus is on developing advanced clinical reasoning skills to safely evaluate a client’s appropriateness for physical therapy. The course will build on concepts gleamed from clinical practice. A Final Program Certificate of Complete upon 30 hours of training accomplished will be issued for Certification in Medical Screening for Rehabilitation (CMSR).

Advances in Clinical Education ↗

The Selective Functional Movement Assessment Course is designed for clinicians that treat patients with musculoskeletal pain and injuries. The SFMA identifies the root cause of symptoms and standardizes the way clinicians approach fundamental movement assessments. The SFMA gives heathcare professionals the ability to design a rehabilitation and exercise program that helps to normalize dysfunctional movement in patients.

Liveconferences.com ↗

This interactive course is in movie format. This "hot" course is designed to provide education and management of the therapist working with burns with emphasis on burns affecting the hand and upper extremity. Education is provided on the varying degrees of burn injury; wound care and dressing techniques; management and rehabilitation of contractures as well as the unique role of the therapist as part of the burn team. Instructor is Jonathan Niszczak MS, OTR/L.
Link to Course

Upstream Rehab Institute ↗

This 5 course series is designed to develop the highest level of evidence-informed orthopaedic rehabilitation skills. A clinician with the OPC designation represents someone who is a movement expert, integrating advanced technical skills and pain neuroscience with comprehensive exercise prescription to skillfully manage patients along with the entire healthcare team. This certification is open to all clinicians, but specifically designed for physical therapy assistants and licensed athletic trainers. The course series culminates in a final comprehensive written and live practical examination.

International Lymphedema and Wound Care Training Institute ↗

20hrs Online Pre-course Work + 30 hours remote or on-site "Live" Training. 49 CE hrs Total/ This course provides extensive training for licensed clinicians who wish to update their skills and stay current with new hand techniques and technologies that are shaping lymphedema treatment today. This course is also Part 1/3 of the full certified Lymphedema & Wound Therapist certification course. The Modern MLD Certification was developed by licensed PTs and OTs who are LANA Certified Lymphedema Therapists with a broad background in traditional approaches. ILWTI has integrated evidence-based research and information gained from ICG fluoroscopy of live lymphatics, to create the new Lymphatic & Integumentary Rehabilitation (LIR™) approach.

Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Institute ↗

The certification course is comprised of six days of practical and theoretical teaching. You must have attended Pilates for Rehabilitation (Matwork Level 1) or equivalent two-day matwork course with a recognised Pilates training institution. in order to attend this certification course. Ninety five beginner and intermediate original and APPI evolved movements are taught along with countless modifications and variations There is a 60 minute written examination and a 60 minute practical examination for APPI reformer certification. Link to Certification

Aquatic Therapy and Rehab Institute ↗

ATRI’s Aquatic Therapeutic Exercise Certification is for competent, knowledgeable professionals in aquatic therapy, rehab and therapeutic exercise. The exam tests your ability to meet the Aquatic Therapy and Rehabilitation Industry Standards to practice. Passing the exam will allow you to use the term “ATRI Certified” or the initials “ATRIC” after your name. The Certification Exam may be taken by anyone who has fulfilled the prerequisite of 15 hours of education in aquatic therapy and rehab. Link to Certification

Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America ↗

The ATP certification recognizes demonstrated competence in analysing the needs of consumers with disabilities, assisting in the selection of appropriate assistive technology for the consumers' needs, and providing training in the use of the selected devices. Link to ATP

Activator® Course ↗

Learn about the evidence-based, globally recognized ACTIVATOR® Program - prescribed as best practice for rehabilitation programs across Canada & abroad to improve outcomes in posture, balance, pain management, and gait. Discover how Activator Poles can be an better alternative to other passive assistive devices, such as canes, walkers, and crutches.
A pair of Activator Poles and Boot Tips are included in the price of enrollment.