Continuing Education
NUPOC offers intensive continuing education and postgraduate courses to rehabilitation professionals who serve persons with physical disabilities, including physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, orthotists, prosthetists, and pedorthists. Our continuing education instruction offers both fundamental and advanced training, emphasizes new techniques, and explores current concepts of treatment. Review information about NUPOC’s continuing education opportunities below.
Prosthetics-Orthotics for Physicians & Therapists
Date: April 21-24, 2025
Prosthetics-Orthotics for Physicians & Therapists is a comprehensive four-day course that covers the essential knowledge and skills needed to collaborate with an inter-professional clinical team providing orthotic & prosthetic care. Engaging lectures and interactive clinical experiences featuring actual patients provides a review of pathologies, patient assessment, prescription development, and biomechanics needed to treat patients that require upper and lower limb prosthetic care in addition to orthotic management of the head/trunk/spine, upper limb, and lower limb. Our distinguished course faculty is comprised of board-certified physiatrists, surgeons, physical/occupational therapists, and prosthetist/orthotists engaged in education, clinical practice, and research. The course includes an extensive digital manual that will be available for download.
You can learn more about the event's agenda here or from our flyer here.
Course Topics Include:
- Pre-prosthetic and post-amputation care
- Normal human locomotion
- Upper limb prosthetic management
- Partial foot prosthetic management
- Transtibial and transfemoral prosthetic management
- Prosthetic management of hip disarticulation and hemipelvectomy
- Pathologic gait and pedorthic management
- Ankle-Foot (AFO) & Knee-Ankle-Foot (KAFO) Orthoses
- Orthotic management of acute spinal pathologies and deformities
The registration fee is $1,000.
Click the link to register: https://northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1FhUY1gMrN8JBbw
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Prosthetic Management for Therapy Professionals
Date: Fall 2025 - TBD
Prosthetic Management for Therapy Professionals is a comprehensive three-day course that covers the essential knowledge and skills needed to collaborate with an inter-professional clinical team providing prosthetic care. Engaging lectures and interactive clinical experiences featuring actual patients provide an intensive review of patient assessment, biomechanics, prosthetic prescription development, and essential therapy techniques needed to treat patients that require upper and lower limb prosthetic care. Our distinguished course faculty is comprised of board-certified physicians, physical/occupational therapists, engineers, and prosthetist/orthotists engaged in education, clinical practice, and research. The course includes an extensive digital manual that will be available for download. You can learn more about the event's agenda here or from our flyer here.
Course Topics Include:
- Interdisciplinary care principles
- Movement science and motor control concepts
- Pre-prosthetic and post-amputation therapy
- Normal human locomotion and gait training
- Upper limb prosthetic management
- Partial foot prosthetic management
- Transtibial and transfemoral prosthetic management
- Rehabilitation concepts for the long-term prosthetic user