More Than a Course — The SRI-COR Ecosystem

SRI-COR combines structured oncology rehabilitation education with clinical toolkits, patient resources, video demonstrations, and case-based application — giving rehabilitation professionals continued support as they translate learning into real patient care.

  • Online Certification Training

    Structured oncology rehabilitation education across the cancer care continuum.

  • Digital Clinician Toolkit

    Clinical references, screening tools, safety guides, documentation examples, and treatment planning resources.

  • Video Skills Library

    Short technique demonstrations clinicians can review before or after patient sessions.

SRI-COR supports clinicians beyond course completion with resources that guide evaluation, treatment planning, safety modification, patient education, documentation, and clinical reasoning.

  • Patient Education Resources

    Ready-to-use handouts and workbooks to support patient education and self-management.

  • Live Case Integration

    Case-based sessions that help clinicians apply oncology rehabilitation reasoning to complex patients.

  • Certification Assessment

    Written exam, take-home case study, and final case review to support certification completion.

Continued Clinical Support Beyond the Course

Oncology rehabilitation is complex. Patients may present with overlapping symptoms, changing medical status, treatment-related precautions, and functional limitations that evolve across the cancer care continuum.

SRI-COR provides clinicians with clinical infrastructure they can return to in practice, including:

  • Clinical Decision-Making Tools

    Evaluation resources, outcome measures, goal-writing examples, documentation supports, symptom-based reasoning guides, and case-based application activities.

  • Treatment & Patient Resources

    Symptom management resources for CRF, CIPN, CRCI, pain, distress, and sleep dysfunction, along with patient education handouts, and selected video labs.

  • Safety & Advanced Care

    Lab value precautions, exercise modifications, bone metastasis guidelines, oncologic emergency recognition, signs of disease progression, advanced disease, palliative care, return-to-work/life-role resources.

The SRI-COR Certification Pathway

    1. Phase 1 introduces cancer care, oncology terminology, the oncology team, treatment approaches, phases of care, and the role of rehabilitation across the cancer care continuum.

    2. Clinicians learn how surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and hormonal therapy may contribute to acute, chronic, and late effects that impact function and quality of life.

    1. Phase 2 moves from foundational knowledge into clinical application, including evaluation, symptom-based rehabilitation, functional planning, clinical safety, and whole-person care.

    2. Evaluation & Clinical Decision Making: screening, chart review, phase of care, prognosis, precautions, outcome measures, and functional assessment.

    3. Symptom-Based Rehabilitation: cancer-related fatigue (CRF), chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy), CIPN, cancer-related cognitive impairments, (CRCI), pain, sleep dysfunction, distress, and related functional impact.

    4. Movement, Function & Participation: strength, endurance, balance, mobility, ADL/IADL performance, work, life roles, posture, communication, swallowing, pelvic health, and sexual health.

    5. Exercise in Oncology: exercise guidelines, precautions, progression strategies, and safety modifications across cancer treatment and recovery.

    6. Mind-Body Rehabilitation: breathwork, mindfulness-based strategies, relaxation, guided imagery, and trauma-informed principles to support distress, pain, sleep, fatigue, and cognitive overload.

    7. Return to Work, Caregiving & Life-Role Participation: work, caregiving, family roles, energy conservation, pacing, activity modification, and environmental adaptation.

    8. Lymphedema Screening, Risk Reduction & Referral: identification, risk factors, screening, prevention education, precautions, self-monitoring, and referral decision making.

    9. Advanced Cancer Rehabilitation: progressing disease, palliative needs, safety, symptom management, oncologic emergency recognition, function, caregiver education, and quality of life.

    1. Live case-based sessions support application to complex oncology rehabilitation cases with emphasis on clinical reasoning, safety, treatment prioritization, interdisciplinary communication, goals, and plan-of-care development.

    1. Includes a written exam, take-home case study, and interactive case review to confirm application of oncology rehabilitation principles, safety, clinical reasoning, and function-focused care planning.

About this course

Cancer Diagnoses and Clinical Populations Addressed

SRI-COR includes clinical considerations across a broad range of oncology populations, including:

  • • Breast cancer
  • • Gastrointestinal cancers
  • • Head and neck cancers
  • • Genitourinary cancers
  • • Gynecological cancers
  • • Hematological cancers
  • • Neuro-oncology
  • • Skin cancers
  • • Thoracic cancers
  • • Bone and soft tissue cancers
  • • Advanced cancer and metastatic disease
  • • Palliative and end-of-life rehabilitation considerations

The focus is not diagnosis alone, but on how cancer type, medical treatment, disease status, prognosis, precautions, symptom burden, and functional goals influence rehabilitation evaluation and intervention.

What Clinicians Learn to Do

Through the SRI-COR pathway, rehabilitation professionals strengthen their ability to:

  • Understand cancer diagnoses, treatments, and rehabilitation implications

  • Screen for precautions, red flags, oncologic emergencies, and signs of possible disease progression

  • Select appropriate evaluation tools, outcome measures, and function-based goals

  • Address common cancer and treatment-related symptoms, including CRF, CIPN, CRCI, pain, sleep dysfunction, distress, weakness, mobility limitations, musculoskeletal impairments, and falls risk

  • Develop individualized, evidence-informed plans of care based on medical status, prognosis, symptom burden, and phase of care

  • Educate patients and caregivers using practical, ready-to-use resources

  • Support self-management, function, participation, safety, and quality of life

Instructor

Lisa Marshall, OTR/L, CLT, CLWT, is the Founder and CEO of Specialty Rehabilitation Inc. and an occupational therapist with more than 30 years of oncology rehabilitation experience. She has developed and led oncology rehabilitation programming in private practice and within a nationally recognized cancer center, with clinical expertise in cancer-related fatigue, CIPN, CRCI, pain, distress, lymphedema, functional participation, advanced disease, and palliative rehabilitation. Lisa created SRI-COR to help rehabilitation professionals move beyond course completion into confident clinical application — with structured education, clinical reasoning tools, patient resources, video demonstrations, and practical support for real-world oncology rehabilitation care.

Who This Program Is For

SRI-COR is designed for rehabilitation professionals who want to build or strengthen their oncology rehabilitation practice, including:

  • Occupational therapy practitioners

  • Physical therapy practitioners

  • Speech-language pathologists

  • Rehabilitation professionals working in acute care, outpatient care, home health, inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and palliative care settings

  • Rehabilitation leaders and healthcare organizations seeking a structured oncology rehabilitation training pathway for their teams

  • Interdisciplinary healthcare professionals, including nurses, social workers, and oncology team members, may also benefit from selected content related to referral needs, rehab considerations, symptom management, and patient education.

Continuing Education & Certification Information

Specialty Rehabilitation Inc. is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Phase 1 and Phase 2 and 3 of the SRI-COR pathway include course components approved for AOTA CEUs.

SRI-COR is a private certification offered through Specialty Rehabilitation Inc. It is not an AOTA certification, board certification, or professional specialty certification issued by AOTA, APTA, ASHA, or another professional association.

Continuing education approval applies to eligible course components and does not imply endorsement of the SRI-COR certification, course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

Coming Soon!

Summer of 2026

SRI-COR is currently in development for public launch.

Join the interest list to receive updates about enrollment, course release dates, organizational training options, and certification pathway details.

For organizational training inquiries, including small practices, clinics, or teams enrolling two or more clinicians, contact Lisa at [email protected].

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