IJATT Part I: Evidence-Based Practice Online CE Course

Online Course

Course components are delivered online:

• Five evidence-based practice articles from the International Journal of Athletic Therapy & Training
• Continuing education exam

Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to do the following:

• Identify the best-available evidence in regards to treatment or physical agent parameters for optimal recovery.
• Summarize certain foundational concepts that are related to evidence-based practice.
• Incorporate the best-available evidence with clinical decision-making.
• Interpret the best-available evidence in relation to prevention, recognition, evaluation, and/or treatment of certain athletic injuries/illnesses.

IJATT Part I: Evidence-Based Practice Online CE Course supports the initiative in the athletic training profession to integrate the best new research and evidence into clinical decision making with the goal of improving patient outcomes. Certified athletic trainers completing this course may earn continuing education units to apply toward the newly required evidence-based practice category to maintain their certification.

This online continuing education course consists of a collection of five evidence-based articles originally published in the International Journal of Athletic Therapy & Training (IJATT). Notable authors such as David O. Draper and Kenneth L. Knight cover topics such asacute wound management, ACL-reconstruction autografts, and diagnosis of infectious meningitis. The articles are followed by an online exam containing 55 questions. Upon passing the exam, you may print out and submit a certificate for continuing education credits.

Evidence-based practice is becoming the standard for all allied health professionals. The articles in this online course introduce athletic trainers to the concept of seeking out and evaluating relevant research so they may apply it to their daily practice to aid their athletes.

Audience

A continuing education course for certified athletic trainers seeking further education in evidence-based practice.

Table of Contents

Acute Wound Management: Cleansing, Debridement, and Dressing

Joel W. Beam

©2008 Human Kinetics • ATT 13(1), pp. 2-6

Interferential Current Therapy: Often Used but Misunderstood

David O. Draper and Kenneth L. Knight

©2006 Human Kinetics • ATT 11(4), pp. 29-31

Clinical Prediction Rules for Diagnostic Imaging After Lower Extremity Trauma

Ashley S. Long and James R. Scifers

©2011 Human Kinetics • IJATT 16(6), pp. 38-41

Infectious Meningitis: An Evidence-Based Approach to Diagnosis

Tim Piper, Mark Cole, Dustin Menk, and Jefree Schulte

©2014 Human Kinetics • IJATT 19(2), pp. 8-13

ACL-Reconstruction Autografts, Musculotendinous Stiffness, and Knee

Osteoarthritis

Giampietro L. Vairo, Sayers John Miller, and Nicole M. McBrier

©2010 Human Kinetics • ATT 15(2), pp. 32-38

Continuing Education Exam (55 questions)

About the Author

The articles in this online course package were compiled by the editors in chief of the International Journal of Athletic Therapy & Training.

Jennifer M. Medina McKeon, PhD, ATC, CSCS, is an assistant professor in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance at Ithaca College in New York. Her academic and research interests include functional anatomy and pathoanatomy, biomechanics, sport injury epidemiology and time-to-event analysis, evidence-based practice, and clinical analysis of risk factors associated with lower-extremity injury. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and has presented her research at the local, national, and international levels.

Patrick O. McKeon, PhD, ATC, CSCS, is a BOC-certified athletic trainer who joined the Ithaca College athletic training faculty in 2013. McKeon’s research focuses on functional alterations associated with lower-extremity joint injury, specifically ankle instability. He incorporates patient-, clinician-, and laboratory-oriented outcomes to evaluate these alterations due to injury and rehabilitation. McKeon seeks to develop a greater understanding of the restoration of sensorimotor function associated with musculoskeletal rehabilitation.