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Advances in back pain diagnosis and exercise prescription

Physiotherapists frequently face challenges when treating patients with back pain, a symptom that requires differential diagnosis and skilled management.

In this one day course Dr Lynn Bardin provides clinically relevant updates including:

1. Advances in differential diagnosis and diagnostic triage of back pain (a key clinical guideline): diagnostic updates, pathways of care in primary care management and referral to medical specialists.

2. Clinically useful diagnostic palpation of the lumbar spine and pelvis (theory and practical).

3. Biomechanics, patho-anatomy and clinical reasoning in therapeutic exercise prescription for back pain, particularly where structural pathology and functional limitation need consideration (with real case examples).

A focus on advances in key components of back pain management (both theory and practical) will enable physiotherapists to progress in diagnostic knowledge and practical skills for managing back pain and to liaise efficiently with the medical profession.


Learning outcomes

  • Advance/reinforce their knowledge of back pain diagnosis and clinical anatomy
  • Incorporate knowledge regarding 'red flags/alerting features' as diagnostic cues that influence diagnosis of serious spine pathologies
  • Perform clinically focused palpation of lumbar spine and pelvis tissues/structures and consider findings of proportionate stimulus-response relationship versus hyperalgesia or allodynia
  • Prescribe research-based or clinically-reasoned exercises for a variety of patient presentations. Typically these might include: functional limitation due to LBP, identifiable muscle weaknesses affecting movement, structural pathologies associated with movement adaptation/s
  • Consider modifications to and progressions of exercise depending on a presenting patient's envelope of function and patient-specific needs

Prerequisites

  • This course is only available to qualified and AHPRA registered physiotherapists.

Presenters

Lynn Bardin


Dr Lynn Bardin, MACP, is a musculoskeletal physiotherapist whose clinical practice, teaching and research involvement focus on back pain and hip/knee osteoarthritis. Lynn qualified with a B.Sci. Physiotherapy degree, then further studies, a Certificate in Orthopaedic Musculoskeletal Therapy and Master of Science in Physiotherapy, at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She subsequently completed a Clinical Physiotherapy Doctorate at the University of Melbourne. Lynn consults at Superspine Clinic in Melbourne and assists with research activities at the Universities of Melbourne and South Australia. She has taught Anatomy at the University of Melbourne for the past 16 years and recently completed a 12-year clinical role at Austin Hospital. Lynn enjoys a role in education, fuelled by research and clinical experience in diagnosis, exercise prescription and pain science. Current research and clinical activities synthesise exercise prescription with pain science perspectives for chronic low back pain and knee osteoarthritis. She has championed spine rehabilitation contributing to clinical and academic education in this field in the UK, South Africa, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. An ongoing commitment to physiotherapy and academia is reflected in numerous conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications. A career-long interest and passion to link research evidence and anatomy science to the challenge of LBP diagnosis and management in primary care culminated in a highly cited narrative review ‘Diagnostic triage for low back pain: a practical approach for primary care' (Bardin et al., Medical Journal of Australia, 2017).

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Saturday
31 August
08:30AM - 04:00PM ACST
28 Woodville Road
Woodville South SA 5011 View map
Price: Non Member: $653.00
APA Member: $435.00
Distance Discount: $380.00
Musculoskeletal Group: $380.00
Pain Group: $380.00
Registration closing date: 31 Aug 2019 Event status: Closed CPD hours: 7.50 * Early bird prices close 4 weeks prior to the course start date
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Price: Non Member: $653.00
APA Member: $435.00
Distance Discount: $380.00
Musculoskeletal Group: $380.00
Pain Group: $380.00
Registration closing date: 31 Aug 2019 Event status: Closed CPD hours: 7.50 * Early bird prices close 4 weeks prior to the course start date
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Presenters

Lynn Bardin


Dr Lynn Bardin, MACP, is a musculoskeletal physiotherapist whose clinical practice, teaching and research involvement focus on back pain and hip/knee osteoarthritis. Lynn qualified with a B.Sci. Physiotherapy degree, then further studies, a Certificate in Orthopaedic Musculoskeletal Therapy and Master of Science in Physiotherapy, at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She subsequently completed a Clinical Physiotherapy Doctorate at the University of Melbourne. Lynn consults at Superspine Clinic in Melbourne and assists with research activities at the Universities of Melbourne and South Australia. She has taught Anatomy at the University of Melbourne for the past 16 years and recently completed a 12-year clinical role at Austin Hospital. Lynn enjoys a role in education, fuelled by research and clinical experience in diagnosis, exercise prescription and pain science. Current research and clinical activities synthesise exercise prescription with pain science perspectives for chronic low back pain and knee osteoarthritis. She has championed spine rehabilitation contributing to clinical and academic education in this field in the UK, South Africa, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. An ongoing commitment to physiotherapy and academia is reflected in numerous conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications. A career-long interest and passion to link research evidence and anatomy science to the challenge of LBP diagnosis and management in primary care culminated in a highly cited narrative review ‘Diagnostic triage for low back pain: a practical approach for primary care' (Bardin et al., Medical Journal of Australia, 2017).


Learning outcomes
  • Advance/reinforce their knowledge of back pain diagnosis and clinical anatomy
  • Incorporate knowledge regarding 'red flags/alerting features' as diagnostic cues that influence diagnosis of serious spine pathologies
  • Perform clinically focused palpation of lumbar spine and pelvis tissues/structures and consider findings of proportionate stimulus-response relationship versus hyperalgesia or allodynia
  • Prescribe research-based or clinically-reasoned exercises for a variety of patient presentations. Typically these might include: functional limitation due to LBP, identifiable muscle weaknesses affecting movement, structural pathologies associated with movement adaptation/s
  • Consider modifications to and progressions of exercise depending on a presenting patient's envelope of function and patient-specific needs
Prerequisites

Prerequisites

  • This course is only available to qualified and AHPRA registered physiotherapists.
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