Thought Leadership Forum: Musculoskeletal Injury Care for the Warrior Athlete
Live in Person Bethesda, MD, February 21, 2025
Continuing Education Information
This continuing education activity is provided by AffinityCE and AMSUS. This activity provides continuing education credit for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, psychologists, and health care executives. A statement of participation is available to other attendees.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this activity, participants should be able to:
• Recognize common musculoskeletal injuries of the foot and ankle incurred by marines and discuss strategies to help with injury reduction.
• Recognize the potential opportunities to align, synchronize, synergize, integrate, and advance MSKI care health across DoD and during service members’ transition to VA care.
• Demonstrate the process involved in the initial screening, care, and subspecialty referrals for pregnancy-related, postpartum, and pelvic floor conditions.
• Explain pain medicine interventions, highlighting strengths and weakness of different approaches.
• Create a comprehensive treatment plan for a common military pain patient
• Recognize the impact of anxiety and depression on pain.
• Identify services that the VHA provides for musculoskeletal injury care.
Disclosures
AffinityCE staff, AMSUS staff, as well as planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
All faculty disclosures are available for participant viewing prior to engaging with program content.
Faculty Disclosures
Katelyn Aaron, MS; Savannah Caban, Doctor of Athletic Training; Gary Helton, PT, DSc; Sean Lacey, DO; Wyatt Maloy, MD, MS; Kimberlee Potter, Ph.D., Paul Pasquina, MD; Deydre Smyth Teyhen, PT, DPT, FAPTA; Xiaoning Yuan, MD, Ph.D., Juanita Anders, Ph.D., Marin Smith, PT, DPT, Sean Simmons, MD, MBA, MA, Stephanie Fournier, PT, Ph.D.(c), DPT, WCS, CLT-LANA; Leigh Anne Lechanski, DPT, OCS, Gloria
H. Park, Ph.D., MAPP; Jessica Richards, Ph.D.; Enrique Smith-Forbes, MOT, OTR, CHT; Erin Stone, OTD, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships
AffinityCE adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CME activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others, are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies. No relevant financial relationships reported for anyone associated with the content of this activity, so mitigation was not necessary.
Physicians - This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of AffinityCE and AMSUS. AffinityCE is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AffinityCE designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Physician Assistants - This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of AffinityCE and AMSUS. AffinityCE is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AffinityCE designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physician assistants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurse Practitioners - This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of AffinityCE and AMSUS. AffinityCE is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AffinityCE designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Nurse practitioners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses - Continuing Nursing Education is provided for this program through the joint providership between AMSUS and AffinityCE. AffinityCE is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). This activity provides a maximum of
6.75 contact hours of continuing nursing education credit.
Psychologists - AffinityCE is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. AffinityCE maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
This activity provides a maximum of 1.25 hours of CE Credit.
The instructional level of this activity is intermediate. The cost to participate in these CE sessions is included in the registration cost for the Program.
Health Care Executives - AffinityCE is authorized to award up to 6.75 hours of pre-approved American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Qualified Education credit (non-ACHE) for this program toward advancement or recertification in the ACHE. Participants in this program wishing to have the continuing education hours applied toward ACHE Qualified Education credit should indicate their attendance when submitting an application to the ACHE for advancement or recertification.
Other Professionals, including OT and PT Professionals - All other health care professionals completing this continuing education activity will be issued a statement of participation indicating the number of hours of continuing education credit. This may be used for professional education CE credit. Please consult your accrediting organization or licensing board for their acceptance of this CE activity.
Commercial Support
No commercial support was provided for this activity.
Participation Costs
The cost to participate in these CE sessions is included in the registration cost for the program.
How to Earn CE Credit
Thought Leadership Forum: Musculoskeletal Injury Care for the Warrior Athlete
Registration for the activity does not establish an account in the CE Center or automatically provide continuing education credit. You must sign into the CE Center site and evaluate the content of the activity to earn CE credit.
The link to complete CE evaluations and request certification will be emailed to all who are registered with an email, attend and check in at the event.
Deadline to Complete
The web site will be open for completing evaluations until March 7, 2025.
After the web site has closed, you can log in to the site at any time to download your certificate, but you will not be able to add any evaluations.
Contact Lori.Lawrence@amsus.org with CE questions for this event
For technical assistance with the CE link or site please contact AffinityCE ce@affinityced.com.