Saturday, January 24, 2026
1:00 PM – 9:30 PM (UTC)
This course covers two challenging areas that physical therapists face regularly: managing shoulder injuries and chronic pain. The course is hands-on with extensive interaction between participants and instructors.
Cost of this event is $150. Once you register, a button for payment will display on the registration page. Please click on that to complete your registration.
Participants will learn how to recognize, screen for, and treat these comorbidities with a holistic approach. This course will assist the PT to begin to integrate pain neuroscience education (PNE), addiction neuroscience education (ANE), and new research in this area with the use of survey tools, PT case studies, and the APTA KY Pain and Addiction Tool Kit Course Objectives:
Describe and review screening tools for patients presenting with upper quarter musculoskeletal pain.
Participants with perform physical examination of the upper quarter with focus on shoulder pathologies.
Participants will perform therapeutic exercise intervention to regain mobility and increase motor control and strength to shoulder and scapular muscles.
Participants will learn how to perform functional tests to evaluate a patient’s readiness to return to sport or work activities.
Participants will recognize how chronic pain effects patients progress to return to normal function.
Participants will identify and apply techniques using Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) to educate patients about chronic pain using case study presentation.
Participants will discover new knowledge on managing complex patients dealing with both a substance use disorder by incorporating Addiction Neuroscience Education (ANE).
Participants will better understand the tools available to them through APTA-KY Pain and Addiction Tool Kit in order to apply new PT substance use disorder research findings where and when applicable.
Registration and payment are required to reserve your seat for this course.
Tim L. Uhl PhD PT ATC FNATA Tim has been practicing physical therapy and athletic training since 1985 in various sport medicine settings. Tim received his bachelor’s in health science from the University of Kentucky in physical therapy. He practiced physical therapy at the Lexington Clinic Sports Medicine Center and served as Head Athletic Trainer at Transylvania University until 1988. He completed his masters’ degree in kinesiology from the University of Michigan in 1990, where he worked both football and wrestling as an ATC. Tim served both on the staff and as the director of outpatient physical therapy at the Human Performance and Rehabilitation Centers in Columbus, GA from 1990-195. This rehabilitation center served 18 orthopedic surgeon and the Hughston Sports Medicine Hospital; the first sports medicine hospital built in the United States founded by Jack Hughston MD. Tim completed his doctorate in sports medicine from the University of Virginia in 1998 where he studied shoulder motor control. Dr. Uhl is presently a Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, a member of the Sports Medicine Research Institute at the University of Kentucky. He works part-time clinically at Commonwealth Hand and Physical Therapy as a Physical Therapists treating patients with upper extremity traumatic and overuse injuries. Tim is active member of the American Academy of Sport Physical Therapy of the American Physical Therapy Association; he also two-times past president of the American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists. Tim is an affiliate member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society since 2004.
Holly Johnson PT, DPT, Cert MDT Holly began practicing PT in Kentucky after receiving a bachelor’s degree in health science from the University of Kentucky in 1986. She then earned a doctorate of PT degree from AT Still University in 2005. In her 32-year career as a clinic director and partner in her private practice PT Pros she trained and specialized in primary care orthopedic PT, Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) with certification, industrial rehab, women’s health, advanced dry needling, chronic pain PNE/ANE management, and lifestyle medicine. She also has long-term experience in business management, new graduate and clinic director mentoring and contract negotiations. After Holly’s 32-year career in PT private practice in Kentucky, she has spent the past 7 years developing PT treatment programs that focus on substance abuse recovery utilizing PT, pain and addiction neuroscience and behavioral health services. Additionally, she has earned a PT Mental Health certification from the Integrative Pain Science Institute and teaches a PT elective course on how PTs to successfully treat patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain , central sensitization, mental illness, and substance use disorder (SUD). She currently conducts ongoing research with the University of Kentucky in this new PT niche. She served as the APTA Kentucky Payment Policy Committee Chairmen from 2008 to 2019, and on the APTA Private Practice Section Payment Policy Committee from 2013-2019. She has been a frequent speaker at PPS annual conference, and APTA Combined Sections Meeting representing PPS. She has recently presented lectures on successful preparation for alternative payment models including direct to employer PT services (D2E). At present, she provides PT consulting services through her company Johnson PT Consulting LLC.
