|
ASHT offers many home study courses. These courses are flexible, clinical, affordable, comprehensive and relevant. You will have all the advantages of receiving the most current information available from highly regarded hand therapy and surgery specialists. Topics focus on providing basic science as well as practical and clinically relevant information to use in your daily practice. All courses are designed for rehabilitation practitioners needing an update and review. The field of rehabilitation changes constantly, and these courses provide a way to keep current without leaving your practice.
How it Works
You may browse our home study offerings by continued scrolling on this page, visiting our online catalog, or you may download and print a PDF file of our catalog.
Advantages
- Credits can be earned without leaving your practice or home
- No travel, meal, lodging costs
- Activities can be completed anytime, anywhere
- Learn from experts in the field
- Improve your practice and gain real world skills
Currently available home study courses
Read & Respond Program
Additional Reference Materials
Lunch and Learn Program
Currently available home study courses
- ASHT Test Prep CD-ROM for the CHT Exam
- Summary: This brand new test prep CD-ROM includes 25 chapters of slide presentations such as Anatomy, Would Healing, Modalities, Tendons, Splinting, Joint Mobilization, Research, and several more! Earn 30 contact hours or 3 CEUs. Visit the ASHT Marketplace today to order your copy!
- Order Now
- Coding and Reimbursement CD-rom
- Summary: Experience one of ASHT's Pre-Conference Institutes from ASHT's 29th Annual Meeting, September 14-17, 2006 in Atlanta: AOTA Reimbursement/Payment, Coding and Documentation for Maximum Reimbursement Update on L-Codes for Upper Extremity Orthotics. Recorded live at ASHT's Annual Meeting in Atlanta
- Order Now
- Cadaver Demonstration (2001)
- Summary: This six-hour CD-ROM includes video demonstrations of four surgical procedures and two presentations on therapeutic procedures following thier corresponding surgeries. Earn 6 contact hours!
- Preview
- Order Now
- Cadaver II CD-rom (2002)
- Summary: Surgical Demonstration & Therapeutic Management II: The Wrist (.5 CEUs) Learn about wrist basics and therapy protocols for treatment of the wrist following surgery. This CD-ROM features an exceptional surgical seminar including anatomical dissection.
- Preview
- Order Now
- Cadaver III: The Plexopathy Patient
- Summary: The Plexopathy Patient: Brachial Plexus Dissection, Evaluation and Treatment Strategy
- Preview
- Order Now
- Cadaver IV: Osteoarthritis & Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Summary: Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis: Surgical Demonstrations and Therapeutic Management is ideal for hand therapists looking to obtain or renew their Certificate of Hand Therapy. Best of all, the CD-ROM allows your to earn contact hours at your own pace, in the comfort of your home or office. This new, educational resource offers nine contact hours.
- Preview
- Order Now
- General Hand DVD (ASSH)
- Summary: Biomechanics of Hand Movement, Dr. Brand, 1979; 2. Examination of the Hand, Dr. Smith, 1981; 3. Physical Examination of the Wrist, Drs. Kleinman and Johnson, 1995; 4. Dupuytren's, Dr. McFarlane, 1987.
- Order Now
- Wrist DVD (ASSH)
- Summary: 2 disc DVD set covering 11 topoics in wrist treatment and surgery. Dorsal capsulodesis, dislocation, fractures, fusion, bone grafts, Kienbock's disease, and chronic scapholunate instability all discussed.
- Order Now
- Tendons DVD (ASSH)
- Summary: Instrinsic Muscle Contracture of the Hand; 2. Flexor Tendon Repair; 3. Flexor Tendon Laceration; 4. Dynamic Traction Splint-Fabrication; 5. Therapeutic Maneuvers That Effect Flexor Tendon Motion; 6. Retinacular System of Digits of the Hand.
- Order Now
Read & Respond Program
Catch up on your reading while earning CEUs. Participants read articles from the award-winning Journal of Hand Therapy and then answer questions to earn continuing education credits. For more information on this correspondence course, please click here.
Download the ASHT Product Order Form here.
Additional Reference Materials
The following materials are available for purchase directly through Amazon.com. These publications serve as reference materials only and are not specifically endorsed by ASHT.
Evidence-Based Rehabilitation: A Guide to Practice
Law, Mary and MacDermid, J., 2007
Interactive Hand: Therapy Edition
Colditz, J., 1999
Fundamentals of Hand Therapy: Clinical Reasoning and Treatment Guidelines for Common Diagnoses of the Upper Extremity
Cooper, C., 2006
Hand Rehabilitation: A Quick Reference Guide and Review
Weiss, S. and Falkenstein, N., 2004
Hand and Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: A Practical Guide
Burke, S. and Higgins, J. and McClinton, M. and Saunders, R., 2005
Hunter, Mackin & Callahan's Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity (2 Volume Set)
Mackin, E. and Callahan, A. and Osterman, A. Lee and Skirven, T., 2002
The Hand: Fundamentals of Therapy
Boscheinen-Morrin, J. and Conolly, W.B
., 2001
Splinting the Hand and Upper Extremity: Principles and Process
Jacobs, M. and Austin, N., 2002
Hand Rehabilitation in Occupational Therapy
Cromwell, F., 1988
Hand Secrets
Jebson, P and Kasdan, M., 2006
Hand and Upper Extremity Splinting: Principles and Methods
Fess, E. and Gettle, K. and Philips, C. and Janson, R., 2004
Hand Pearls
Concannon, M and Hurov, Jack
Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice (3rd Edition) (Foundations Of Clinical Research)
Portney, G and Watkins, M., 2007
Clinical mechanics of the hand
Brand, Paul and Hollister, A.M., 1993
Modalities for Therapeutic Intervention (Contemporary Perspectives in Rehabilitation)
Michlovitz, S. and Nolan, T., 2005
Muscles: Testing and Function, with Posture and Pain
Kendall, F.P. and McCreary, E.K. and Provance, P.G., 2005
Hand and Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: A Practical Guide
Clark, G. and Wilgis, E.F. and Aiello, B., 1993
Physical Agents in Rehabilitation - Text with Electrical Stimulation, Ultrasound and Laser Light Handbook Package: From Research to Practice
Cameron, M., 2006
Atlas of Hand Anatomy and Clinical Implications
Yu, H. and Chase, R.A. and Strauch, B., 2003
Hand and Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: A Practical Guide
Burke, S. and Higgins, J. and McClinton, M. and Saunders, R., 2005
Hands on Sports Therapy
Ward, K., 2004
Elbow, Forearm, and Hand Muscles (VHS)
Kendall, F., 2002
Lunch and Learn Program
Earn 1 contact hour on the phone!
Participate in ASHT 's May Lunch and Learn.
Title: Paige's Pearls
Date: Tuesday, May 20 th , 2008
Presenter: Paige E. Kurtz, MS, OTR/L, CHT
Time: 12:00 p.m ET/ 11:00 a.m. CT/ 10:00 a.m. MT/ 9:00 a.m. PT
If you did not attend Paige's presentation at ASHT/ASSH's Electives Course in New Orleans , you don't want to miss Paige's Pearls of Treatment.
Paige has been a hand specialist since graduating in 1990 and earned her CHT designation in 1996. With over 17 years experience in patient care, she is also very involved at the national level of the American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT), currently serving as President in 2008. Furthermore, Paige has lectured regionally and all over the country for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) and ASHT, and is frequently sought after to lecture at conferences around the United States . Her favorite topics are Arthritis and Complex hand injuries.
Click here to register!
Note: Members must login to receive member rate for course.
These innovative conference calls provide a forum for seasoned hand therapists to interact with knowledgeable speakers and discuss diagnoses, surgeries and treatment options. By participating in one of these calls, you can ask questions that you never had time to pursue, or bring up a difficult or complicated case for discussion. The cost is only $25 for ASHT members and $35 for non-members.
Click here for more information on our Lunch and Learn format:
*International participants may have additional phone expense. Please contact ASHT at info@asht.org before registering.
|
|
