Orthopaedic Presentations

Community Orthopaedic Awareness Program (COAP)

Orthopaedic PowerPoint Presentations and Scripts to Promote Your Practice and Profession

If you want to speak in your community, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons offers newly updated Community Orthopaedic Awareness Program (COAP) ready-to-go presentations in PowerPoint with scripts.

These presentations can be given at senior centers, health fairs, hospitals, schools and community groups, such as the Rotary Club or Lions.

Topics include Get Up, Get Out, Get Moving: Exercise!, Living With Arthritis, Save Your Knees and Scoliosis (in partnership with the Scoliosis Research Society).

All presentations have updated statistics and include better images.

Tips, Techniques and How to Use

New for 2011:

• Distracted Driving
• Preventing Falls

Presentations

• 10 Common Orthopaedic Injuries
• Common Hand Injuries (in partnership with the American Society for Surgery of the Hand)
• Get Up, Get Out, Get Moving: Exercise!
• Injury Prevention
• Living With Arthritis
• Osteoarthritis & You
• Patient-Centered Care
• Patient Safety
• Pigeon Toes, Knock Knees, and Flat Feet: When to See the Orthopaedist (in partnership with the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America)
• Preventing Winter Sports Injuries
• Save Your Knees (www.saveyourknees.org)
• Scoliosis (in partnership with the Scoliosis Research Society)
• Sports Injuries
• Understanding Back Pain
• Understanding Osteoporosis

If you would like to request a copy of any or all of these presentations on a CD, please contact Pat Julitz by phone, 847-384-4036 or e-mail, julitz@aaos.org.

PowerPoint Viewers

• If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your PC, Please go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ and search for PowerPoint Viewer to download a PC Viewer to your computer.
• If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your Mac, download this Mac Viewer.

Movie Viewers

• PC Users - to view the Movie in the PowerPoint Presentation, right click to download this Windows Real Media Viewer.
• Mac Users - To view the Movie in the PowerPoint Presentations, download this Movie Viewer.