An Evidence Based Clinical Approach to Effective and Efficient Exercise Prescription for Neck Pain: A 1 day course with Shaun O'Leary
Places available
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Date(s) |
24th Sep 2010 |
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Length | 1 day |
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Cost | £125.00 |
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CPD hours | 7 |
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Venue | Bookham Scout Centre |
Summary
Attending this course will greatly enhance your clinical skills in assessing and treating chronic neck pain. You will learn to utilise the most up to date published and yet to be published research evidence. This comes via Shaun's role as a specialist clinician and researcher at University of Queensland (UQ). His expertise comes from his own and other collaborative research with Gwen Jull, Michelle Sterling and other globally recognised experts in the area of neck pain.
The course will test and enhance your clinical reasoning in the treatment of chronic neck problems and make your exercise prescription skills far far more effective.
As you are aware, one solution does not fit all in this challenging area and an important goal in this patient group is the early identification of the key physical deficits that are of most relevance to the patient's disorder.
With this in mind, your ability to provide simple yet both specific and effective exercises that bring measureable improvement for the individual patient is vital. This forms a focus throughout so your confidence in this will grow as a result.
By the end you will have a structured management approach appropriate for all problematic cervical disorders irrespective of their cause.
The course is a mixture of lectures and practicals. The maximum course numbers are 30 people and there will be an assistant present to help with practical sessions so a good tutor student ratio is maintained.
To gain an initial flavour of some of the clinical insights and skills you will gain from attending simply click here to download your FREE practical tips guide on assessing and managing neck pain by Shaun O'Leary
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Objectives
On completion of this you will be able to:
Demonstrate an enhanced knowledge of cervical motion and muscle function
Describe a clear thought process in reasoning your observations, assessment findings and exercise prescription.
Demonstrate a knowledge of the current research evidence of motor function and exercise trials, and it's implications in the management of your patients' with neck pain.
Provide a systematic approach to identify which of your patients will benefit from a therapeutic exercise program.
Understand the relationship between your patient's functional deficits, their painful movement disorder and findings from tests of posture, movement, flexibility and muscle performance to facilitate your decision making.
Clinical skill in identifying dysfunction in the anterior/posterior cervical muscles, and axioscapular muscles using a battery of clinical tests.
Enhance clinical reasoning skills underpinning prioritisation in exercise prescription.
Establish decisive and efficient plans of action for therapeutic exercise with adequate progression.
Determine how to utilise exercise with other therapeutics such as manual therapy.
Content
The course teaches you:
Where to start when assessing and then treating someone with chronic neck pain
How to identify motor impairments in patients with neck pain and reason the implications for cervical function
The practical assessment of motion testing with a focus on specific anterior and posterior cervical and axioscapular muscle function, their performance during assessment and how your findings relate to the patient's movement disorder
Identify those muscle groups that need training and then be able to teach tailored exercise progression which meet the needs of the patient
How to limit your exercise prescription to a few simple exercises that best meet the patients' individual needs and maximise their improvement
How to integrate a successful therapeutic exercise program into the overall management of our patients with chronic neck pain.
The overall aim is for you to be able to effectively assess and treat those patients who with chronic symptoms which can often be the most challenging.
The latest research is integrated throughout and Shaun will share his clinical tips and hints for you to gain as much as possible which you can then put straight into your clinical practice.
Restrictions
You do need to have appropriate UK professional liability insurance to cover you for the techniques to be taught, as detailed in the summary / content section. To ensure that you are eligible to attend we might need to ask you for proof of this.
Audience
If you see patients with mechanical neck pain and you are either a physiotherapist, an osteopath, a sports therapist, a sports rehabilitator or a chiropractor you can come on the course. Also, if you are a student of any of these professions, you are ok to attend.
The course content will be suitable for you whatever your level of experience.
Programme
Day 1
| 8.00 | Registration |
| 8.15 | Lecture: Anatomical considerations, evidence of dysfunction, and concepts in training of cervical motor function |
| 9.00 | Practical: Assessment of anterior cervical muscle function |
| 10.30 | BREAK |
| 10.45 | Practical: Assessment of posterior cervical muscle function |
| 12.15 | Practical: Assessment of axioscapular muscle function |
| 13.45 | LUNCH |
| 14.15 | Practical: Training of cervical motor function using case examples |
| 16.30 | Close |
| (For a further breakdown of the days schedule, please see the content section above) |
