Regenerative Rehabilitation After a Complex Shoulder Injury in a Teenage Wrestler

Physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who treat overhead and contact-sport athletes and who are being asked about orthobiologic injections by patients, families, and referring physicians.

Licensed physical therapists and physical therapist assistants in outpatient orthopedic, sports, and hospital-based settings. Athletic trainers and other rehabilitation professionals may also find the material useful.

Intended audience

Physical Therapy

Level

Intermediate

Delivery format

Online, asynchronous, self-paced course: interactive reading with audio or video, and a scored post-test.

Based on

Escaloni J, Mazloomdoost D, Young I. Novel Orthobiologic Preparation and Regenerative Rehabilitation of a Complex Shoulder Injury in a Competitive Adolescent Female Athlete. International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy. 2023;18(1):240–252.

Case report. Open access under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The authors reported no conflicts of interest. This course reports only what appears in that article.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Describe the injury mechanism, examination findings, and imaging findings that led the authors to classify this athlete's presentation as a complex shoulder injury.
2. Name the orthobiologic treatments and the four adjunct methods the authors combined in the regenerative rehabilitation program described in the case.
3. State the pain, disability, return-to-sport, and imaging outcomes the authors reported, and explain why a single case report cannot establish cause and effect.

1. Start Here: How This Course Works
2. Podcast: Orthobiologics and Regenerative Rehabilitation in a Teenage Wrestler (about nine minutes)
3. A Wrestler's Shoulder That Conventional Rehabilitation Did Not Fix
4. Building the Injection and Rehabilitation Plan, Tissue by Tissue
5. What Changed: Pain, Disability, Return to Sport, and Imaging
6. What One Case Can and Cannot Tell Us
7. Where This Sits in Everyday Rehabilitation Practice
8. Key Takeaways
9. Post-Test and Course Evaluation

Quinn Millington, PT, DPT, ECS is the instructor of record: the licensed clinician who reviewed this course and signed off on it. The name and credentials print on the certificate.

Disclosures. This course was developed by The ConEd Solution, which has a financial interest in its sale. No outside funding or sponsorship was received. The instructor of record has no affiliation with the authors of the source publication or their institutions.

This course awards 0.5 contact hours (30 min). How you earn them:

1. Complete the course. Every lesson, in order.
2. Pass the post-test. Score 80% or higher. Retakes are allowed.
3. Complete the evaluation. A short form rating each learning objective and the course.
4. Download your certificate. It is issued on completion and stays available in My Account.

The episode time is its measured length. Reading, post-test and evaluation times are estimates.

This course is designed to satisfy the quality requirements state boards set for continuing education. Requirements vary by state, and confirming that a course fits your renewal is up to you. Each state’s own acceptance statement is in the credit panel on this page.

1. Escaloni J, Mazloomdoost D, Young I. Novel Orthobiologic Preparation and Regenerative Rehabilitation of a Complex Shoulder Injury in a Competitive Adolescent Female Athlete. International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy. 2023;18(1):240–252.
2. Case report. Open access under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The authors reported no conflicts of interest. This course reports only what appears in that article.