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Online & Home Study

ASHT offers many online and 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


Webinars
Currently available home study courses
Read & Respond Program
Additional Reference Materials



Upcoming Webinars

A Clinician's Guide to Understanding Intervention Research Design and Statistics
Monday, January 23, 2012
9:00 PM ET / 8:00 PM CT / 6:00 PM PT
Presenter: Kristin Valdes, OTD, OT, CHT


The Treatment of Pediatric Radial Longitudinal Deficiency
Monday, January 30, 2012
9:00 PM ET / 8:00 PM CT / 6:00 PM PT
Presenter: Valeri Calhoun, MS, OTR/L, CHT
Registration will open soon.


Tennis Elbow: Histopathology and Implications to Rehabilitation
Thursday, February 2, 2012
9:00 PM ET / 8:00 PM CT / 6:00 PM PT
Presenter: Jane Fedorczyk, PT, PhD, CHT, ATC


Using the Internet as a Clinical Resource: Searching the Literature
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
9:00 PM ET / 8:00 PM CT / 6:00 PM PT
Presenter: Sue Michlovitz, PT, PhD, CHT
Registration will open soon.


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!
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  • 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!
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  • Cadaver III: The Plexopathy Patient
    • Summary: The Plexopathy Patient: Brachial Plexus Dissection, Evaluation and Treatment Strategy
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  • 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.
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  • Orthotic Coding for Therapists (P. Boineau, C. Blake, K. Brou, N. Cannon, L. Choe, J. Coverdale, V. Clark, E. DeHerder, K. Landrieu, J. Picciano and P. Schindeler)
    • Enhance successful reimbursement for your practice with the newly updated Orthotic Coding for Therapists, an easy-to-read reference guide to current billing procedures for custom fabricated orthoses which includes 25 L Codes introduced by CMS from 2006 thru 2007. This flip chart provides clear definitions of terminology, coding guidelines and full color photographs of orthoses for the latest L codes.
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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.

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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.

Athletic and Sport Issues in Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
Magee, D. and Manske, R. and Zachazewski, J. and Quillen, W., 2010

Evidence-Based Rehabilitation: A Guide to Practice
Law, Mary and MacDermid, J., 2007

Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice (3rd Edition) (Foundations Of Clinical Research)
Portney, G and Watkins, M., 2007

Fundamentals of Hand Therapy: Clinical Reasoning and Treatment Guidelines for Common Diagnoses of the Upper Extremity
Cooper, C., 2006

Hand Pearls
Concannon, M and Hurov, Jack

Hand Rehabilitation in Occupational Therapy
Cromwell, F., 1988

Hand Secrets
Jebson, P and Kasdan, M., 2006

Hand and Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: A Practical Guide
Burke, S. and Higgins, J. and McClinton, M. and Saunders, R., 2005

Hand and Upper Extremity Rehabilitation: A Practical Guide
Clark, G. and Wilgis, E.F. and Aiello, B., 1993

Hands on Sports Therapy
Ward, K., 2004

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

Introduction to Splinting: A Clinical Reasoning and Problem-Solving Approach
Coppard & Lohman, 2007

Interactive Hand: Therapy Edition
Colditz, J., 1999

Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System: Foundations for Rehabilitation
Neumann, D., 2009

Modalities for Therapeutic Intervention and Diagnosis, 5th Edition
Michlovitz, S. and Bellew, J. and Nolan Jr., T.

Modalities for Therapeutic Intervention (Contemporary Perspectives in Rehabilitation)
Michlovitz, S. and Nolan, T., 2005

Movement System Impairment Syndromes of the Extremities, Cervical and Thoracic Spines
Sahrmann, S., 2010

Muscles: Testing and Function, with Posture and Pain
Kendall, F.P. and McCreary, E.K. and Provance, P.G., 2005

Neurological Rehabilitation: Optimizing Motor Performance
Carr, J. and Shepherd, R., 2010

Orthopaedic Physical Therapy, 4th Edition
Donatelli, R. and Wooden, M., 2009

Physical Agents in Rehabilitation - Text with Electrical Stimulation, Ultrasound and Laser Light Handbook Package: From Research to Practice
Cameron, M., 2006

Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity, 2-Volume Set
Skirven, T. and Osterman, A. and Fedorczyk, J. and Amadio, P., 2010

Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Limb
Conolly, W. and Prosser, R., 2003

Rehabilitation Research: Principles and Applications
Carter, R. and Lubinsky, J. and Domholdt, E., 2010

Special Tests in Musculoskeletal Examination
Hattam, P. and Smeatham, A., 2010

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

 
 
 
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