Laddie Sacharko
MA (ed psyc) Oregon Research Institute Certified Tai Chi Moving for Better Balance, American Tai Chi & Qigong Association Certified Instructor and Professional Member, Health Preservation Association Tai Chi and Qigong Association
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Tai Chi: CE provider,fall prevention program consultant,community program teacher Expert
Laddie Sacharko Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Tai Chi for Seniors,Fall Prevention Programming for Communities
- Career Focus
- Trainer, Consultant, "Tai Chi as Therapy"
- Affiliation
- Health Preservation Association, American Tai Chi and Qigong Association
I am very well positioned to deliver professional continuing education courses, and to provide community program consult.
With more than 800 hours of training, and well over 7500 hours of teaching Tai Chi, primarily to senior citizens, I am able to offer my expertise to allied health professionals and the medical professions, as well as community orgaizations and hospitals. As an independent researcher, I have worked with the principal investigator at the University of CT in a study which looked at functional change in balance/fall prevention and ADL. I am conversant with the multifactorial approach to fall prevention and have implemented a fall prevention exercise intervention protocol (Tai Chi Moving for Better Balance) in three communities with repeat implementation in all three (high level of participant interest and success).
As an education psychology practitioner, I am well versed in assessment instrument adminstration and interpretation, and have significant experience with assessing, assigning and motivating student direction and success.
As a military officer, I spent the majority of 25 years as a training manager, analyst, and trainer: assessing need, designing programs, implementing programs, and evaluating outcomes. I was fortunate to have had experience with programs geared towards individuals and organizations of up to 2500 people engaged in a vast multitude of individual and collective activities. My responsibilites also included management of budgets, and other material resources as well as time and space requirements.
Contact me anytime via email, or phone: 860333 2651 laddie@taichi4therapy.com
Laddie Sacharko Books
Tai Chi Moving for Better Balance Instruction DVD $5.99
http://www.taichi4therapy.com/tai-chi-for-therapy-dvd/
Tai Chi Moving for Better Balance Instruction Manual
http://www.taichi4therapy.com/tai-chi-for-therapy-dvd/
Instructors Manual: Tai Chi Mocing for Better Balance
http://www.taichi4therapy.com/tai-chi-for-therapy-dvd/
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Establishing Tai Chi as Usable, Credible,Accepted Complementary/Alte ative Medicine Practice
As a Tai Chi teacher in the communities of NE Connecticut for the last 15 years, I have found consistently that Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Recreation Therapists, MD's and Nurses will almost universally affirm a patient's practice of Tai Chi for many chronic health conditions, but few will extend themselves to referring patients to local classes. Wanting to change that, I began working on a program to bring Tai Chi and its successes more fully into the awareness of the local healthcare community.
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Understanding Tai Chi as an Adjunct to Physical Therapy: AGS/BGS Endorses Tai Chi for Fall Prevention
For the first time since 2001, the American Geriatrics Society and the British Geriatrics Society have updated their guidelines for preventing falls in older people. The update includes two notable changes: One recommends tai chi — the meditative, slow-motio Chinese exercise — as an effective way to prevent falls, while another suggests that doctors review medication use by all elderly patients, with an eye toward reducing use of those drugs that increase the risk of falling.
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Contacting Laddie Sacharko
Contact by Phone 860 333 2651 email laddie@starfarmtaiji.com websites www.taichi4therapy.com www.starfarmtaiji.com
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Tai Chi and the Physical Threapist: Extending a The Continuum of Care
A Continuing Education Credit Workshop: .8 CEU's, 7 CEH, 8 CEC In House, or Off-Site Schedule
Reviewed and Approved:Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners: .8CEU's. The American Tai Chi & Qigong Association 7 CEH, the American Finess Professionals and Associates: 8CEC's, the American Therapeutic Recreation Association: .7 CEU's.
Lea a clinically proven individual and small group therapeutic activity, mostly lab based training: learn a brief tai chi form, learn to implement reliable program: Balance/Fall Prevention, Tai Chi for Parkinson’s Disease, Depression.
Understand tai chi as physical therapy, therapeutic recreation, (injury) fall prevention training, and wellness
programming. Learn how to use therapeutic tai chi for balance, strength, posture and gait training in the clinical and
community setting. Learn how therapeutic Tai Chi for Parkinson's Disease helps ease the symptoms of Parkinson's
Disease as reported in the current(Feb 2012) New England journal of Medicine. Learn how therapeutic tai chi can
improve the outcomes of treating depression in older adults. Be able to start a clinical or community based
Therapeutic Tai Chi Training Program.measurably reduce risk of falling using proven tai chi exercises, tailored to your client.
extend the continuum of care with reliable community referral: post rehabilitation, prevention, and wellness.
improve voluntary enrollments and retention with therapeutic tai chi for wellness, post rehab, balance, and fall
prevention programs
visit: http://www.taichi4therapy.com, email laddie@taichi4therapy.com call 660 333 2651
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Courtyard Marriott Norwich Oct 13
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