Clinical reasoning in soft tissue repair: Using the evidence to maximise recovery using manual therapy, exercise and electrotherapy.

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Objectives

On completion of this course participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the current concepts in tissue repair, healing and recovery from injury.
2. Justify how and when the various manual, exercise and electrotherapy modalities can be used to optimally influence tissue repair.
3. Discuss the controversies that exist within each of these modalities and the current evidence with respect to each.
4. Justify their current choice of treatment modalities based on the best available evidence to optimise tissue repair in their client group.

Content

Initially Tim will review bioelectrics within tissues and how knowledge this is vital to understand how and why healing occus but also to understand why sometimes it fails. The healing process is then reviewed to contextualise evidence in relation to the specific modalities of manual therapy, electrotherapy and exercise.

Each of these is discussed and applied to clinical practice to help participants understand how the material will apply to them and their patients. To date the reviews for this course have been directed towards how the knowledge shared has not been heard before and will enhace their management of patients.

Course preparation

There is currently no recommended pre course reading for this course.

Audience

This course is primarily aimed at physiotherapists, osteopaths, sports therapists and sports rehabilitators. Some benefits will also be gain by chiropractors who utilise exercise and electrotherapy within their treatments.

Programme

Day 1

9.00	Registration
9.30	Current Concepts in Bioelectrics and their influence on tissue repair
10.15	Tissue Healing - general issues and the inflammatory events
11.00	BREAK
11.30	Tissue Repair - Proliferative and Remodelling phases
13.00	LUNCH
14.00	Tissue Repair - Integration of the processes and therapeutic approaches
15.00	BREAK
15.15	Electrotherapy modalities that can influence tissue repair - mechanisms and clinical application
16.15	Open forum / discussion
16.30	CLOSE

Participant feedback

• An inspirational tutor who made a "complicated" subject interesting, simplified and relevant to practice with some personal annecdotes. Time flew by!

• Great for revision of the healing process and provides reassurance about WHY what we do works, especially if you've been feeling a little, 'whats it all about' recently..

• Having been qualified just under 3 years I was surprised and shocked at the sheer amount of information that was new to me. I would recommend this day to any clinician. Thank you

• A fun and fascinating lecture/ talk and it has definitely made me question my use of modalities and techniques enabling me to be more evidence based and appropriate for the stage and types of conditions I treat.

• Well presented and topics broken down into managable chunks. Despite being more a theoretical course I found it engaging throughout!

• A fantastic and useful revision and thought provoking new research. I would recommend this to any therapist involved in physical rehabilitation

• This seminar day was really fantastic, so informative, well structured and delivered in a way that kept audience engaged all day. Well done.

• Excellent. Tim Watson was an enthusiastic and inspiring speaker. This is the first time that I have found electrotherapy of interest. Theory was well linked with clinically relevant examples. Thank you

• Excellent course relating types of tissue repair and the relevance to understanding choice of treatment modalities according to phase of repair.

• Fantastic day with excellent tutor who was full of knowledge and enthusiasm. Was so clear.

• Excellent update on research and theory of tissue repair. Practical evidence base for therapies.

• This course is a must for every musculoskeletal orthopaedic physio no matter how long ago you graduated.

• This study day was quite simply excellent. Tim Watson is an inspiration to the profession who lecturers in a stimulating and passionate manner. I could listen to him for ages! Thank you.

• Very useful for a sports physio working daily with musculoskeletal traumatic injuries to back up what we do and why we do it and so become more efficient.

• Excellent day. Fast paced delivery and very informative. Good update on current research which as busy clinicians is vital.

• A fantastic update and chance to revisit physiology and bioelectrics. Would recommend it to anyone.

• Having been qualified just under 3 years I was surprised and shocked at the sheer amount of information that was new to me. I would recommend this day to any clinician. Thank you

• This course was absolutely brilliant. Informative, interesting, motivating and practice changing in terms of physiology of tissue repair and role of therapy in influencing this positively

• This is great for dispelling any of those ‘someone told me' facts about manual and electrotherapy and injury. It really helped me reflect on what treatment modalities, whether manual or otherwise, I would use and when. This is the most applicable and easily applicable course I have done yet

• Excellent basic course on up to date knowledge of tissue repair. Good link to electrotherapy modalities

• Provides the evidence for our daily practice. A must!.

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