Function Circuit Training: Rehabilitation for Baby Boomers in Hospitals, Acute Rehab Centers, Nursing Homes, Home Health, Outpatient Centers, Community Programs, and Home Exercise Programs

by Chris Byrd

Functional Circuit Training is an improvement on the common practice of Occupational and Physical Therapists using therapeutic exercise to improve strength, range of motion, and activity tolerance. FCT uses the modern trends of obstacle courses, circuit training, and functional movement patterns to improve strength, range of motion, and activity tolerance while simultaneously improving ADL skills. As reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance moves toward functional gains the outdated model of showing progress by increasing reps, sets, degrees of motion, standing or activity tolerance, and increase in resistance will need to be replaced. Traditional rehabilitation fails to address the Baby Boomer need to be involved in maintaining their health and function. Rehabilitation facilities will soon survive or fail based on their responsiveness to the massive Baby Boomer population. They do not consider themselves old and are not impressed by the three sets of ten leg raises or bicep curls they saw their mother doing when she broke her hip.

19 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 31, 2013