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BIO: Lynette Jamison, MOT, OTR/L

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Lynette Jamison, MOT, OTR/L

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Lynette completed her master’s degree from Texas Woman’s University. Her career has incorporated Occupational Therapy services into a variety of settings including outpatient, inpatient, psychosocial services, aquatic rehab, hand rehab, work hardening, and lymphedema.
 
Jamison served as the Director of Aquatics and Rehabilitation for 10 years at the Desert Pain Institute in Mesa, AZ. There, she consulted with the designers to develop the only peroxide therapy pool in the Mesa area. Lynette was the second recipient of the Aquatic Therapy & Rehab Institute (ATRI) Aquatic Therapy Professional of the Year Award.
 
Lynette has published the only commercially available aquatic therapy Policy & Procedure Manual, 2 aquatic therapy text books, “A Team Approach to Aquatic Rehabilitation” and “Aquatic Therapy Using PNF Patterns”, several chapters in other books, and numerous articles on lymphedema, Fibromyalgia, and aquatic therapy.
 
Lynette is certified by the Dr. Vodder School of North America to use Manual Lymph Drainage® to treat patients with lymphedema. She is now developing lymphedema treatment programs for Phoenix Baptist Hospital.

To view information on, or to order Lynette’s Aquatic Policy & Procedure Manual, go to: http://www.inertiatherapy.com/?p=673

 

BIO: Kimberly Gordon, MPT

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Kimberly Gordon, MPT

Kim 4 webKimberly graduated from Mayo Clinic’s School of Health Related Sciences with her Master’s degree in Physical Therapy. She began practicing in an outpatient sports medicine clinic in Sarasota, FL where her case-load included orthopedic and post-surgical clients, including older adults with torn knee and ankle ligaments, total joint replacements, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and gait dysfunction. She went on to manage a branch for that company in Bradenton, FL. Upon moving back to Rochester, MN, she spent time working in a local nursing home, helping to develop their short term rehab program to increase the number of joint replacement patients in the facility and to better manage these patients as a team in the nursing home. She then moved into a home health physical therapy position, bringing innovative ideas to the patient returning from a hospital or nursing home stay after surgery or trauma, including many with new joint replacement patients.
 
She currently works at both the Rochester Active PT office and the Plainview ActivePT office (managing the Plainview office) where she specializes in treating orthopedic patients both in and out of the therapy pool. Her specialty is treating pelvic, hip and knee patients and the majority of her patients come with women’s health, orthopedic and sports medicine complaints.
 
Kim has over 11 years of treating primarily orthopedic patients with 7 of those years specializing in sports medicine. Kim also has over 500 hours of continuing education including SI joint dysfunction, Shoulder rehabilitation presented by Kevin Wilk, pelvic floor training through the Herman and Wallace Pelvic Institute, a certification course in Pilates training and specializes in Pilates. She also teaches a Pilates class at the Rochester Athletic Club and has devoloped specialized classes for the athletic club including Back School, return to Pilates after rehabilitiation, and prenatal Pilates.
 
Kim’s area of specialty is the hip and pelvis. This includes pelvic floor dysfunction, low back and hip pain, total joint replacements, and SI dysfunction. Kim has been teaching for ATU across the country for over 5 years. She helped develop the “Aquatic Therapy for the Female Client” manual and has added content on Yoga and Pilates in the pool to several manuals. She teaches all of the adult classes, but specializes in the orthopedic courses.
 
Kimberly Gordon is cofounder of North Star Aquatic Therapy in 2014 to offer aquatic therapy classes.
 

BIO: Kathleen “Kiki” Dickinson, MPT

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Kiki 4 webKiki graduated from St. Catherine University with a master’s degree in physical therapy. She is employed at St. Croix Therapy (Special Children Center) since 1995. Kiki is an adjunct professor at St. Catherine’s University since 2000, teaching the Pediatric Course for the Physical Therapy Assistant Program. She teaches custom seminars across the USA for Aquatic Therapy University with an emphasis on the neuro pediatric and adult populations. Kiki has a passion for volunteering (including at orphanages in China through Red Thread Charities). She has also created several manuals for Aquatic Therapy University.

Specialty areas:  Aquatic Therapy and Birth to Three

Certified in: Bad Ragaz Ring Method©, Clinical Ai Chi©, the Universal Exercise Unit/Therasuit Method and Cranial Sacral I and II
 
Kiki is cofounder of North Star Aquatic Therapy in 2014 to offer aquatic therapy classes. Visit her website at: http://www.northstaraquatictherapy.com/

BIO: Dr. Bruce Becker

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As a physiatrist (a medical specialist in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) with a lifelong interest in aquatic therapy, Dr. Becker has researched, published and lectured on aquatics across the globe. A graduate of Tulane University School of Medicine, he completed his residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Washington. As an associate Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine, he served as Vice President of Medical Affairs for the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan from January, 1992 until June, 1988 when he moved to Spokane to serve as Medical Director of St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, serving there until January 2006.
 
Since 2006, he has served as Director of the National Aquatics and Sports Medicine Institute at Washington State University, pursuing physiologic research during aquatic activity. He holds clinical appointments as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and also Adjunct Research Professor at Washington State University where he is Director of the National Aquatics & Sports Medicine Institute.
 
Dr. Becker co-authored the textbook Comprehensive Aquatic Therapy and has also been the recipient of major aquatic research grants from the National Swimming Pool Foundation, as well as other grants from the National Disability and Rehabilitation Research division of the Department of Education.
Visit Dr. Becker’s website at: www.aquaticdoc.com