Fall Conference

APTA Utah 50th Annual Fall Conference

October 24-25, 2025

Rocky Mountain University
1800 S Novell Pl, Provo, UT 84606

EVENT DETAILS

12 CEU Hours + 1 Ethics

Dates: October 24-25, 2025
Times: Friday 8:00 am-5:00 pm & Saturday 8:00 am-3:00 pm

Ethics Presentation will be Saturday 7:00 - 8:00 AM.

Location: Rocky Mountain University
1800 S Novell Pl, Provo, UT 84606

ORTHO TRACK

Bart McDonald, PT, MPT, ECS, FMSK

"Providing and Utilizing Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and EMG in the PT Practice as Primary Care Providers"

Bart McDonald, PT, MPT, ECS, FMSK, is the founder of Superior Physical Therapy. Bart graduated from Emory University School of Medicine in 2000. He opened his first outpatient clinic in 2004, and since then, Superior Physical Therapy has since grown to eight clinics across Southeastern Idaho. After earning his ABPTS certification in Clinical Electrophysiologic Testing (ECS) in 2020, and completing a Fellowship in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in 2021, Bart created Diagnostic Solutions, a group that performs electrodiagnostic (EMG) and musculoskeletal ultrasound testing. Diagnostic Solutions performs diagnostic tests for physical therapy clinics, and physicians in the area and has expanded to perform testing inside of orthopedic surgeons’ and podiatry offices.  In January of 2025, Mr. McDonald partnered with Mountain Land Physical Therapy and is the Director of Clinical Diagnostic Services for Mountain Land Partners in Utah, Idaho and Montana.  He is passionate about building the PT profession to become the musculoskeletal primary care providers, accurately finding the true diagnosis for each patient, and changing lives.

NEURO TRACK

Ana Sanchez Junkin, PT, DPT & Chrissy Zimmerman, PT

"Leveraging Movement Analysis to Streamline Assessment, Identify Balance Diagnoses, and
Deliver Targeted Interventions for Balance Dysfunction"

Movement analysis is a key tool in the diagnostic process that can help therapists derive hypotheses about the underlying impairments, identify diagnoses, and provide specific interventions in an efficient and patient-centered way.  In this 2-day course, participants will learn the foundational concepts to understand and apply the Universal Framework for Movement Analysis and the Movement System Diagnoses for Balance Dysfunction recently developed by the Movement System Committee of the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy.  The foundational concepts for movement analysis include the movement continuum and movement constructs terminology and definitions to universally describe movement when analyzing tasks as well as standardized task and environmental variations to be applied during examination. The foundational concepts for Balance Diagnoses are the postural control strategies, their underlying determinants, key movement observations and examination findings that describe each balance diagnosis and the link between the diagnoses and interventions. Course participants will learn how to apply these concepts and processes in their clinical practice throughout the course via structured active learning opportunities and the use of video-based patient cases. Course participants will have access to and practice using knowledge translation tools throughout the course to further assist in translating the content into clinical practice.

Pediatric Track

LOCAL SPEAKERS

COMBINED WITH NEURO TRACK THIS YEAR

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Annual Fall Conference Highlights

• Local and National Exhibitors

• APTA Utah Business Meeting Luncheon Friday

• Research Presentations on Saturday