The Primary Care PT Mindset: Clinical Reasoning Beyond Rehab

Access this exclusive Luna Edge Webinar Course on-demand! ⚡ 

This session reframes the role of the PT from rehab expert to frontline health strategist. You’ll gain practical frameworks to think beyond isolated physical impairments, integrate lifestyle medicine into every encounter, and build deeper clinical authority as a central member of the primary care team.

Course objectives:

• Define primary care physical therapy and understand its role within the healthcare system.
• Distinguish between primary care and emergency physical therapy.
• Identify the benefits of physical therapy in primary care, including improved patient outcomes and enhanced healthcare efficiency.
• Identify the roles assumed by a primary care physical therapist including: 1) triage screening, evaluation and initial care navigation, 2) ongoing management and surveillance, and 3) ongoing health promotion and wellness.
• Recall the education, competencies and clinical privileges of primary care physical therapists with respect to professional, jurisdictional, and personal scope of practice.
• Identify various clinical settings where primary care physical therapists provide services.
• Describe the primary care physical therapist’s role in addressing matters related to population health.
• Recall the operational, cultural and financial factors associated with various integrated interprofessional models of care.

Speakers: Katie O’Bright, PT, DPT, OCS and Palak Shah, PT

Attendees will be granted a Certificate of Completion for 1 contact hour, approved for CEUs in California, New York, Washington, and Texas.

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