30 Contact Hours / 3 CEUs
Learning Format: Video Lessons and Assessments

Course Description:

This collection of presentations provides a comprehensive overview of the treatment of various issues that female athletes commonly encounter.

Chapters:

Acute Management of the Female Endurance Athlete Objectives:

Donna Merkel, PT, MS, SCS, CSCS
Shelly Weinstein, PT, MS, SCS, ATC

• Identify the challenges to field medicine in endurance sports
• Understand the prevalence of stress fractures in the female endurance athlete
• Recognize the signs and symptoms of femoral neck stress fractures
• Learn how to manage an acute stress fracture
• Identify signs and symptoms of hyponatremia

Bone Health Across the Lifespan and Recommended Interventions Objectives:

Jill Thein-Nissenbaum PT, DSC, SCS, ATC

• Identify how RED-S and the female athlete triad impact bone health.
• Discuss the negative long term effects of inadequate bone acquisition.
• Identify how the adolescent female can optimize bone acquisition.

Menstrual Health & Its Longterm Impact

Teresa Schuemann PT, DPT, ATC, SCS

• Features downloadable slides

Negative Energy Balance Objectives

Clair McKeone PT, DPT, OCS

• Define Negative Energy and Low Energy Availability
• Describe the causes of negative energy balance
• Explore recommendations for assessing risk and low energy availability
• Appraise interventions and recommendations based on classification
• Discuss the use of athlete contracts in treatment

RED-S vs Triad Semantics

Hannah Jasurda PT, DPT, OCS

• Define the pillars of both female athlete triad and RED-S.
• Compare and contrast RED-S and the triad.
• Understand the consequences that low energy availability has on physiologic systems, psychological processes and performance.
• Appreciate the differences and similarities between screening tools and RTP protocols.

Five Sections (3.5 Hours of content)