These courses build upon the PORi Foundation in Oncology Rehabilitation course, reinforcing key concepts to ensure participants develop a strong clinical foundation. Previously covered material will be revisited to deepen understanding and enhance practical application in a clinical setting.

A significant emphasis is placed on lab sessions, incorporating live and/or video patient presentations as well as interactive class lab sessions where participants can practice and discuss the techniques learned to ensure clinical proficiency.

Three of the PORi CORE courses focus on specific oncology diagnoses and diagnosis groups: Breast Cancer, Head & Neck Cancers, and Pelvic Cancers & Lower Extremity Rehabilitation. The fourth CORE course focuses on the effects of chemotherapy and applies to patients with any cancer diagnosis, including those covered in the disease-specific CORE courses. At the conclusion of each module, participants must pass a written examination and, for in-person courses, a practical examination conducted in a live treatment session with a patient volunteer and the course instructor.

PORi CORE: Disease Site Specialty Courses
While there are therapeutic exercise facets to these courses, the primary treatment techniques taught during these courses will be manual therapy-based. In addition, there will be a significant emphasis on lab sessions, including live and/or video patient presentations which include patient interviewing, assessment, manual therapy treatment techniques and reassessment.  In-person courses will allow therapists to have hands-on experience with patient volunteers.​

• Breast Cancer Rehabilitation
• Head & Neck Cancer Rehabilitation
• Pelvic Cancer & Lower Extremity Rehabilitation

PORi CORE: Therapy Intervention Course​
While there are some manual therapy elements to the Chemotoxicity & Cancer Exercise Management PORi CORE course, the focus is much more exercise prescription and neurologic interventions to address chemotoxicity symptoms, such as cancer-related fatigue, chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy, de-conditioning, balance, strength, and cardiovascular endurance. There will be a strong focus on live and/or video patient presentations where participants can practice the PORi exercise prescription protocols they are learning.

• Chemotoxicity & Cancer Exercise Management
  

The PORi Adjunct Courses do not form part of the core curriculum but are ancillary courses for therapists who feel they wish to delve more deeply into a topic related to one of the courses they have already done or look to add specialist knowledge in a less common area such as brain & CNS tumor rehabilitation, vestibular rehabilitation etc. We constantly review and update our CORE courses to identify areas where adjunct courses would enhance the curriculum.

PORi Adjunct modules will usually build off one or more PORi Core courses and will either focus on a specific oncology diagnosis that hasn't directly been covered in one of the PORi Core courses, or a particular therapy intervention to address one or more cancer treatment side-effects or sequalae resulting from cancer that can span multiple cancer diagnoses.