OVERVIEW

The goals of this course are to educate the attendees on the current concepts in treating patients with shoulder pain.   The lecture will include etiology of shoulder pain, different types if impingement, non operative treatment and keys to success such as evaluating and addressing the scapula, rotator cuff and posterior shoulder extensibility.  A lab session will follow this lecture where we will practice these techniques.

OBJECTIVES

• Review current trends in rotator cuff strengthening
• Review current literature on rotator cuff pathology
• Review and perform current manual skills on management of the shoulder pain
• Review current trends of managing shoulder pain following rotator cuff surgery

INSTRUCTOR BIO:

Timothy F Tyler MS, PT, ATC has been working in sports medicine for the last 25 years. In 1989 he graduated from Southern Connecticut State University and started working as an athletic trainer. After receiving a Masters in physical therapy from Long Island University he started as a staff physical therapist at the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma at Lenox Hill Hospital. Shortly thereafter he was promoted to Clinical Research Associate where he remains on staff as a consultant. In 2001 he started a private practice in Scarsdale, NY named PRO Sports Physical Therapy of Westchester. In addition, he works as the head athletic trainer at Scarsdale High School. He is a member of the APTA, AOSSM, NATA, ICCUS, and ASSET, and serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Sport Rehabilitation and The North American Journal of Sports Physical Therapy. He has published over 50 articles in peer review sports medicine journals along with writing 30 book chapters. In 2010 he was the first to be president of the Sports Physical Therapy Section and the American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists in the same year.