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Take Your Personal Trainer Career to the Next Level

As the fitness and health care industries continue to evolve and new technologies surface, fitness professionals find themselves working with more clients with musculoskeletal, neurologic, and cardiovascular conditions.

Bring in the skills and knowledge necessary to offer Post Rehabilitation Exercise services to clients and receive the recognition for being on the forefront of healthcare to your clients and those you serve!

The AFPA Post Rehab Exercise Specialist Certification is designed to teach you how to effectively work with people who are recovering from injury, disease, and/or treatment.

What’s It Like Being a Post Rehab Exercise Specialist?

Building upon your knowledge as a Personal Trainer, you have the power to make a huge impact on the well-being of clients by helping them achieve pain-free living.

As an AFPA Certified Post Rehab Exercise Specialist, you’ll have the knowledge, skills and professionalism to:

Develop and implement exercise programming and testing for clients with disease and disability as well as those coping with multiple conditions
Engineer specific symptoms of a disease or disability into an effective exercise testing or programming prescription
Recognize and counsel on interactions of medications and their effects on exercise
Identify and instruct on the practical application of exercise programs in the management of a variety of chronic medical conditions
Construct an exercise program to minimize low back pain and improve overall core strength
Design an exercise program around orthopedic limitations due to knee, back, shoulder, and other types of common injuries
Arrange a safe, effective, and structured exercise program for clients while working to improve quality of life and ADL (activities of daily living)

Why AFPA?

Join over 130,000 AFPA certified professionals worldwide.

With a 27-year legacy of accredited expertise, AFPA is a frontrunner in elite fitness and wellness programs. We’re proud to offer the best variety of flexible, affordable, and accessible programs on the market.

Study Anywhere At Your Own Pace

Enjoy the freedom to study on your own time from anywhere in the world.

Study guidelines and schedules are provided to help keep you on track. Take the test online when you’re ready!
Affordable and Flexible Payment Options

Get certified without breaking the bank.

Our certifications cost significantly less than degree programs, so they’re affordable programs with minimum financial risk.
Financing options are available for all AFPA certification programs.
Kickstart Your Career with Included Client Resources

Support doesn’t stop once you’re certified.

You get exclusive access to bonus resources so that you have a solid foundation to start your career as a Post Rehab Exercise Specialist.
All Learning Materials Included

Your tuition covers everything.

All Course Materials
All Assignments
Study Guides
Final Exam
Business Resources Included

Upon enrollment, we provide you with exclusive resources to help you establish, optimize, grow, and build your specialized fitness business.
Unlimited Student Support

Call, email, or chat with our educational advisors as often as you need before, during, and even after enrollment.

What You’ll Get:

All course materials
- eBooks and/or physical textbooks based on your learning preference
- Chapter outlines and chapter study guides
Online video library: 40 demonstrations of rehab and exercise techniques
Over 330 illustrations to assist in the understanding of complex anatomical and physiological concepts
Online practical activities, labs, and case studies
Practice quizzes and self assessments
Online final exam

A Look Inside The Curriculum:

Develop therapeutic, post rehabilitation exercise programs that enhance quality of life and performance. You’ll learn:

Concepts of Rehabilitation

Identify and interpret how therapeutic exercise is intended to enable the client to remediate or prevent impairments of body functions and structures, enhance activities and participation, reduce risk, optimize overall health, and enhance fitness and well-being. Topics include:

Basic components of therapeutic exercise
Concepts of healing
The role of therapeutic exercise in healing
Evaluation, assessment and examination
Keeping rehabilitation records
Therapeutic exercise parameters and techniques
Range of motion and flexibility
Measuring range of motion
Manual therapy techniques

Therapeutic Exercise for Musculoskeletal Injuries

Where and how does strength training fit into a recovery plan? Dive into why evaluating and building muscle strength plays a vital role in injury prevention and rehabilitation. Topics include:

Evaluating muscle strength
Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
The ABCs of proprioception
Therapeutic exercise for proprioception

Therapeutic Exercise for Chronic Diseases & Disabilities

Discover the significance of exercise for the treatment and prevention of disease and the proper exercise prescription protocols and experience evidence-informed guidance on devising individualized exercise programs.

Exercise recommendations for persons with chronic conditions
Effects on the exercise response and of exercise training
Recommendations for exercise testing and exercise programming
Case studies and exercise program recommendations for over 30 chronic diseases and disabilities including cardiovascular diseases, pulmonary diseases, neuromuscular conditions, cognitive and psychological disorders, cancer and much more

Functional Exercise

Assess how applying functional exercise training helps improve the ability to perform activities of daily living and restore range of motion and stability. Topics include:

Functional evaluation
Upper & lower extremity functional progression
Aquatic therapeutic exercise
Swiss ball exercises
Rehabilitation for the spine and sacroiliac
Rehabilitation for the shoulder and arm
Rehabilitation for elbow and forearm
Rehabilitation for wrist and hand
Rehabilitation for foot, ankle, and lower leg
Rehabilitation for knee and thigh

"AFPA has been great! Affordable, self-paced education that is extremely beneficial to the learning experience. I have gotten so much from this program and will continue to further my education through AFPA."

Tracey F.

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Is This Program Right For Me?

The Post Rehab Exercise Specialist Certification Program is perfect for anyone who is:

Passionate about helping people make an empowered comeback from injuries
Already an established health professional and wanting to diversify or expand their education
Seeking flexible career opportunities or taking the next step toward receiving a higher hourly income

Are There Payment Plans?

Absolutely!

Pick the loan that fits your budget and make payments over three, six, or 12 months. Our payment plans offer instant approval and are safe and secure.

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Do I Qualify?

To enroll in the Post Rehab Exercise Specialist Program, you must:

Hold a valid Personal Trainer Certification or equivalent and have a minimum of 2 years of experience in the field.
Be at least 18 years of age.
Have a solid understanding of the English language.

Exam Requirements:

You need a minimum final exam grade of 85% to pass.
A $75.00 retest fee will apply.

After successful completion, you will earn the title of “Certified Post Rehab Exercise Specialist” on your certificate.

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