Medbridge Certificate Programs
Orthopedic
Excellence Series
With Chad Cook, Eric Hegedus, and Alexis Wright
Improve outcomes for your orthopedic-related conditions with evidence-based certificate programs for the spine, upper quarter, and lower quarter.
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Restore your patients’ comfort and quality of life
Enhance the quality of care you provide patients who suffer from orthopedic-related conditions by becoming skilled in the best evidence-based approaches available and expanding the lens through which you view your patients using the Pain and Disability Drivers model. In this certificate program series, you will learn examination and treatment fundamentals through a clinical decision-making paradigm and integrate advanced technical concepts to improve clinical outcomes in your practice.
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Spine Certificate Series
By Chad Cook, Eric Hegedus, and Alexis Wright
Between 50 and 80 percent of adults will experience spine pain at some point in their lives, making it crucial for rehab professionals to know how to effectively treat this common condition. Develop your expertise with this focused certificate program.
Upper Quarter Certificate Series
By Chad Cook, Eric Hegedus, and Alexis Wright
Injuries and pain in the upper extremities impact a person’s ability to perform countless daily tasks, both at home and at work. Reduce pain and improve quality of life for your patients with focused expertise in evaluating and managing conditions of the upper extremities with this certificate program.
Lower Quarter Certificate Series
By Chad Cook, Eric Hegedus, and Alexis Wright
From new injuries to post-surgical rehab, be ready to assess and treat a range of conditions related to the pelvis, hip, thigh, knee, ankle, and feet. Advance your understanding of lower extremity conditions and develop confidence in your practice with this certificate program.
Our Instructors
Chad Cook
PT, PhD, MBA, FAPTA, FAAOMPT
Dr. Cook is a professor at Duke University with a Category A appointment in the Duke Clinical Research Institute and an adjunct appointment in the Department of Population Health Sciences. He is a clinical researcher, physical therapist, and profession advocate with a long history of clinical care excellence and service and academic experience. His passions include refining and improving the patient examination process and validating tools used in day-to-day physical therapist practice. He received his BS in physical therapy from Maryville University (St. Louis) in 1990 and his PhD from Texas Tech University in 2003.
Dr. Cook received fellowship status at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists in 2006. He is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association. Dr. Cook has published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers, has been part of $11 million in external funding, and has keynoted on six continents and in numerous countries. He has two textbooks in their second editions and a third textbook in its first edition. Dr. Cook has a long-standing history of service roles as an editor in chief or associate/special topics editor for multiple journals, including JOSPT and BJSM.
Dr. Cook has won numerous awards locally at Duke for teaching, is the 2009 Baethke-Carlin award winner for the American Physical Therapy Association, is the 2008 recipient of the Helen Bradley Career Achievement Award, and is the 2005 winner of the J. Warren Perry Distinguished Authorship Award. Dr. Cook was the Pauline Cerasoli lecturer in 2017 and received the John McMillan Mennell Career Award for Service from AAOMPT in 2021. In addition, Dr. Cook is the 2011 winner and the 2012 and 2013 cowinner of the AAOMPT Excellence in Research Award. Dr. Cook has also been awarded the APTA Helen J. Hislop Award for Outstanding Contributions to Professional Literature.
Alexis Wright
PT, PhD, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT
Alexis A. Wright serves as professor and program director for the Tufts DPT Boston program. Wright has been invested in DPT education since 2011. She was recognized as a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists in 2011 and achieved APTA board-certified orthopedic specialization in 2015. Wright is also a 2019 graduate of the Education Leadership Institute Fellowship through the APTA. She is a frequent research presenter at state, national, and international meetings and a productive author with more than 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts in the area of orthopedic physical therapy.
Wright’s previous roles included APTA Lecture Awards Subcommittee, APTA Awards Committee, and nominating committee chair of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists. She is a 2007 recipient of the Emerging Leader Award for the American Physical Therapy Association and a 2012 recipient of the Dorothy Briggs Memorial Scientific Inquiry Award for the American Physical Therapy Association.
Eric Hegedus
PT, DPT, PhD, MHSc, OCS
Dr. Eric J. Hegedus has had a notable 21-year career as a leader and innovator in physical therapist education, research, and clinical practice and is founding chair of the Doctor of Physical Therapy Department at High Point University. Dr. Hegedus also is founder and director of Targeted Enhanced Athletic Movement (TEAM), a community-based health and wellness program designed to improve athletic performance and prevent injury. In addition to his administrative duties, Professor Hegedus has directed and taught musculoskeletal practice management courses and has won the American Physical Therapy Association Orthopedic Section's James A. Gould teaching award. He is also a four-time winner of the Duke DPT Excellence in Teaching award and a three-time nominee for Duke Medical Center’s prestigious Master Clinician Educator Award.
In addition to his love for teaching, Dr. Hegedus is a lifelong student with a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Slippery Rock University, a Master of Health Science degree from Duke University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Bucknell University, a board specialty in orthopedic physical therapy, and a specialty certification in strength and conditioning. Finally, Dr. Hegedus is a productive scholar with more than 40 peer-reviewed PubMed articles, three book chapters, and a textbook entitled Orthopedic Physical Examination Tests: An Evidence-Based Approach, now in its second edition and translated into five languages.
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