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Low Back Pain & BPS Practice

Low Back Pain & BPS Practice

$499.00 CAD
$499.00 CAD
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CE Hours: 12

A comprehensive exploration of low back pain and applying the science in a biopsychosocial framework.
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Description

A comprehensive journey to low back pain and biopsychosocial practice.

  • Deep dive into the literature and epidemiology
  • Psychologically informed practice, including cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Exercise prescription incorporating movement variance and motor learning theories.

About The Knowledge Exchange (TKEX)

The TKEX team is made up of Allied Health Professionals with a background in research. We pride ourselves on translating research into clinical practice so you can focus on the most important parts of your practice.

We don’t see ourselves as educators but rather as facilitators of ideas, discussion, and critical appraisal. This is because we aren’t satisfied with the status quo of healthcare and believe we can all do far better for our patients.

Who This Course Is For

If you work with clients who are in pain, this course is for you. Allied health professions of all kinds, including...

  • Chiropractors
  • Physiotherapists
  • Strength Coaches
  • Trainers
  • Osteopaths

Curriculum

Introduction and Getting Started

  • Welcome to the course!
  • Workbook for download
  • Introduction
  • Philosophy and science
  • Casual Conversation
  • Casual conversations - Introduction
  • Casual conversations 1 - Logical fallacies
  • Want more?

Back Pain - A Background

  • Let's get into the good stuff!
  • 1. LBP epidemiology - part 1
  • 2. LBP epidemiology - part 2 - risk factors
  • 3. LBP epidemiology - imaging
  • 4. LBP epidemiology invasive procedures (after imaging)
  • 5. LBP epidemiology - guidelinesA Paper to Review
  • 6. LBP epidemiology - special tests (last)
  • Read what we’ve read (optional resources)

Red Flags

  • Red flags
  • Red flags 2
  • Red flags 3
  • Red Flag Quiz
  • Optional Reading

Pain Science and Biopsychosocial Practice

  • Pain Science and Biopsychosocial Practice
  • 1. Pain science part 1 - The fundamentals of pain scienceFundamentals quiz
  • 2. Pain science - part 2 - A closer look at the biologyA Closer Look Quiz
  • 3. Pain science - part 3 - tissue injury and painTissue Injury Quiz
  • 4. Placebo-nocebo
  • 5. BPS practice
  • BPS Practice Quiz
  • 6. Casual conversations - part 2 - metaphors
  • Read what we’ve read (optional resources)

Predictive Processing - Exploring Perception and Action

  • Perception Introduction
  • 1. Predictive processing - An introduction to perception
  • 2. Predictive processing - A Bayesian Perspective
  • 3. Predictive processing - Perception and Action
  • Perception Quiz
  • Read what we've read (optional resources)

The Common Sense Model to Illness Perception

  • 1. The Common Sense Model - Applied to LBP
  • Read what we’ve read (optional resources)

Facts and Myths of Low Back Pain

  • Introduction
  • 1. Intro - Why sorting myth from fact matters
  • 2. Posture
  • 3. The core
  • 4. Safe lifting
  • 5. Movement Screens
  • 6. Spondylolisthesis
  • 7. The SIJ
  • Read what we’ve read: Peer-Reviewed Paper
  • Facts & Myths Quiz

Practical Communication Skills

  • Communication Intro
  • 1. Fundamentals and the subjective assessment
  • Read what we’ve read (optional resources)
  • Peer-Reviewed Paper
  • 2. Experiential learning
  • Read what we’ve read (optional resources)
  • 3. Debrief of a clinical example
  • 4. Handling challenging scenarios - lbp
  • 5. Self-care and summary
  • Communication Quiz

Exercise and Activity Prescription

  • Introduction
  • 1. Graded activity
  • 2. Constraints-based learning and motor learning - LBP
  • Peer-Reviewed Paper

Constraints-Based Exercise Ideas

  • 1. Introduction to constraint based exercises
  • Exercises 1 - ball wrestle (1)
  • Exercises 2 - mirroring (2)
  • Exercises 3 - target practice (3)
  • Exercises 4 - stick work (4)
  • Exercises 5 - prisoner get ups (5)
  • Exercises 6 - thruster with constraints (6)
  • Exercises 7 - barbell lumbar flexion constraint (7)
  • Exercises 8 - dead hang series (8)
  • Exercises 9 - shoe roll over - exercise challenge (9)
  • Exercises 10 - get ups (10)

Symptom Modification Exercise Ideas

  • 1. Intro to symptom modification and traffic light system
  • 2. Symptom mod low back exercises 1
  • 3. Symptom mod low back exercises 2

Wrapping Up

  • Some final words
  • Almost Done!
  • *Optional*Survey
  • Book your Implementation Call
  • Connect with Us!

Instructor

Brendan Mouatt

Brendan is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist based out of Adelaide, Australia. Brendan’s interest in perceptual and behavioural science led him to undertake a Master of Research degree looking at the interactions between visual sensory information (provided using virtual reality) and a person’s interoceptive accuracy. The culmination of this research, alongside his clinical experience as an Exercise Physiologist working in the musculoskeletal injury and pain space, motivated him to continue his research career and continue with a PhD at the University of South Australia. Brendan’s PhD aims to explore how perceptions, beliefs, and behaviours (particularly during clinical interactions) influence the recovery of those suffering from pain.Motivated by the need to improve the translation of research into practice, Brendan has taught in the tertiary education system since 2012 and has delivered continuing education courses nationally and internationally since 2016 through The Knowledge Exchange.