Clinical Education
Presentations, publications, collaborations, and professional education advancing care for ME/CFS, Long COVID, and related conditions.
Pacing for PEM: Strategies to Protect Function & Improve Quality of Life
SILC Global Long COVID ECHO Webinar Series (2026)
Amy presented the Pacing for PEM™ Framework, highlighting how to recognize PEM, analyze functional capacity and exertional stressors, and apply pacing strategies to reduce exertional load, protect function, and support meaningful participation.
Post-Exertional Malaise: Recognizing the Crash After Activity
Long COVID and Fatiguing Illness Recovery Program ECHO (2026)
Amy presented on recognizing Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM), highlighting the patient experience, diagnostic features, exertional triggers, symptom patterns, and the immediate and delayed time course of symptoms.
Physical Therapy & Occupational Therapy and Long COVID
Long COVID and Fatiguing Illness Recovery Program ECHO (2025)
Amy presented as part of this national ECHO webinar series focused on emerging best practices and models of care for Long COVID and ME/CFS. Her presentation explored the roles of occupational and physical therapy in supporting people with Long COVID and related fatiguing illnesses.
Bateman Horne Center and
the University of Utah Health ECHO present:
Long COVID & Post-Viral Syndromes
When Exercise Doesn't Help
Bateman Horne Center and the University of Utah Health ECHO teams join forces once again to provide a case-based learning series illuminating strategies for assessment and management of Long COVID (PASC), ME/CFS, and related comorbid conditions.
Occupational therapist, Amy Mooney, MS, OTR/L, and physical therapist, Clayton Powers, DPT address the importance of screening for PEM and redefine "exercise" in patients with PEM/PESE.
“This is brilliant and should be a MUST WATCH for GPs and anyone working in a Long COVID clinic.”
“Thank you for a detailed presentation, wish we had this just 5 years ago.”
“This is an excellent presentation. Great for everyone who has anyone dealing with these health challenges in their life.”
Amy Mooney with the Bateman Horne Center developed educational material for Rehab Professionals
Bateman Horne Center: Rehab Professionals
Occupational & Physical Therapy for Patients with PEM/PESE
These education videos aim to equip rehabilitation professionals on how to assess and safely manage patients with PEM/PESE. OT & PE for patients with PEM/PESE video series
This video series was developed for physical and occupational therapists to highlight the process of identifying post-exertional malaise/post-exertional symptom exacerbation (PEM/PESE) to provide insight into therapeutic approaches.
These short video segments will include topics intended to inform therapists who are not familiar with pacing, resting, and symptom management guidelines.
We hope this series will introduce principles of ME/CFS and Long COVID care that encourage healthcare professionals to continue advancing their knowledge about PEM/PESE.
Video Series:
Introduction Video
Why PEM Matters
PEM: The Basics
Pacing for PEM/PESE
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Rehabilitation Strategies for Managing PEM
in ME/CFS & PESE in long COVID
Allied Health Professionals Workshop, South Peninsula Hospital
May 16, 2026 Homer, Alaska
2025 AOTA Specialty Conference: Women’s Health
Oct 10-11, 2025 Portland, Oregon
The Role of Occupational Therapy in Managing Post-Exertional Malaise in ME/CFS and Symptom Exacerbation in Long COVID patients
2025 AOTA Annual conference and Expo
Philadelphia, PA
Workshop and poster session presenations: The Role of Occupational Therapy in Managing Post-Exertional Malaise in ME/CFS and Symptom Exacerbation in Long COVID.
April 2025
OT/PT Treatment for Patients with Long COVID & ME/CFS
Amy Mooney presents Part 2 of a pediatric Long COVID series at University of Utah Health’s Pediatric ECHO program.
In this lecture, Amy Mooney discusses treatment and support approaches from the occupational therapy (OT)
and physical therapy (PT) lens.
February 2025
Solve M.E. and Bateman Horne Center webinar presents:
Caregiving
Severe ME/CFS: Care, Rights, & Research: Navigating the spectrum of illness
October 2024
CALIFORNIA PHYSICAL THEARPY ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Safe Rehabilitation Practices for People with Long COVID & Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Post-Exertional Malaise & Pacing for PEM October 2023
HOMECARE & HOPSICE ASSOCIATION SOUTHWEST
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Long COVID: Occupational and Physical Therapy identifying patients with Post-Exertional Malaise & Pacing for PEM August 2023
FINNISH ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
Occupational Therapist’s Perspective: The care for ME/CFS & Long COVID December 2022
International Conference Long COVID and ME/CFS Treatment
and Rehabilitation
Tampere, Finland
Occupational Therapist’s Perspective: The care for severe ME/CFS & Long COVID October 2022
IACFS/ME 2022 Clinical and Scientific Conference
Occupational Therapy & Physical Therapy: increasing function & quality of life for ME/CFS patients July 2022
American Occupational Therapy Association
2022 INSPIRE Annual Conference
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): The role of occupational therapy in symptom management & treatment of ME/CFS Short Course #338 April 2022
American Occupational Therapy Association
2020 INSPIRE Webinar
The Role of Occupational Therapy in Symptom Management & Treatment of ME/CFS August 2020
