Barriers to Physical Therapy in a Public Health System:Physical therapists are uniquely equipped to observe and address barriers to health care access, given the frequency with which we see and the amount of time that we spend face-to-face with our patients. However, physical therapists must first be aware of how social determinants of health can play a role in our patients outcomes before we are able to manage and eliminate them. It is critical that we are able to look beyond the medical chart in order to treat the whole patient. -Health Literacy and Portion Sizes in Overweight and Obese Adults: Often physical therapists treat patients who have musculoskeletal injury/pain which are made worse or limited in healing capacity due to being overweight or obese. During their journey to reduce this musculoskeletal pain, patients are advised to control their weight and comorbidities that may affect healing and safety with exercises. This can be difficult for many due to limited knowledge and low health literacy levels. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine whether change can be made to improve health literacy and ability to pick portion sizes after an educational intervention. 1CCU 

At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to:
1. Understand financial and non-financial barriers to physical therapy access;
2. Discuss social determinants of health and how they affect physical therapy attendance and outcomes;
3. Understand the role that physical therapists can play in addressing social determinants of health in order to optimize outcomes;
4. Understanding the obesity prevalence rate in the United States and Harris County and how the Fit and Strong Together program assists with weight loss;
5. Identify how outcome measures such as the Newest Vital Sign and Portion Picking help assess health literacy in patients that are overweight or obese;
6. Discuss the correlation between health literacy and a person’s ability to identify appropriate serving size.

Speaker(s)
Allison Butcher, PT, DPT recently completed the Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency program with Harris Health System. She will be presenting her Capstone presentation from her residency as part of this course. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Physical Therapy with Texas Woman's University (expected graduation May 2022) and previously received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from TWU-Houston in 2019. She attended University of Texas at Austin for double Bachelor's degrees in Exercise Science in Biology.

Oluwatosin Victoria Olowoyeye, PT, DPT, MS recently completed the Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency program with Harris Health System. She will be presenting her Capstone presentation from her residency as part of this course. Prior to the residency, she received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Texas Woman's University - Houston. She attended University of North Texas for her Bachelor's in Kinesiology as well as her Master's in Recreation, Event, and Sports Management. Victoria has been an active member of APTA/TPTA since 2016 and recently joined the SED board as Public Relations Chair.

Both of the speakers have presented together and individually numerous times for Houston area sports and orthopedic physical therapy residents as well as DPT students at UTMB -Galveston and TWU-Houston. They also have given platform presentations at CSM and AAOMPT conferences.

Schedule
6:00-6:30pm - SED Board Report
6:30-7:00pm - Part 1 of CCU course: Barriers to Physical Therapy in a Public Hospital System (Butcher)
7:00-7:30pm - Part 2 of CCU course: Health Literacy and Portion Sizes in Overweight and Obese Adults (Olowoyeye)
7:30pm - Q/A for both speakers

Fees
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PT/PTA/Student Members: $0
PTA/PTA/Student Non-Members $10

Additional Locations
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Course certificates will be available to you no later than November 30, 2020. You will receive instructions via email. Please allow until then for processing and contact TPTA after that date if you have not received instructions.

Cancellation Policy 
No refunds unless otherwise approved by SED Board. Registration closes at midnight on 11/16/2020.

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