The complete and advanced lumbar spine and pelvis
This course is designed to advance participant's clinical reasoning and competency in the advanced assessment, differential diagnosis and management of the lumbar spine and pelvis.
Presented by Australian Specialist Physiotherapy Education by clinical specialists in the area of musculoskeletal and women's, men's and pelvic health. Our four presenters have the highest clinical, teaching and research expertise with appointments at Sydney, Macquarie and Curtin Universities. They are involved in the creation and translation of evidence, ensuring participants benefit from integrating cutting edge research into clinical practise, from a truly national perspective.
Course content encompasses a complete and comprehensive review of assessment and management paradigms. Advanced clinical reasoning will be used to determine assessment, differential diagnosis, sub classification and management of complex lumbar spine and pelvic disorders, including pelvic pain in pregnancy. Participants will build on previous knowledge and advance their manual therapy skills, improve assessment of articular, muscular, pain and biopsychosocial contributions to lumbopelvic pain disorders.
Course format: Learning focuses on interactive advanced clinical reasoning using complex cases, role playing, live patient demonstrations and highly practical components. These will be used to ensure targeted management and ensure consolidated learning.
• the purpose of seeking patients for a live assessment to be conducted within the courses
• the purpose of seeking interest in purchasing goods or services pursuant
Presented by Australian Specialist Physiotherapy Education by clinical specialists in the area of musculoskeletal and women's, men's and pelvic health. Our four presenters have the highest clinical, teaching and research expertise with appointments at Sydney, Macquarie and Curtin Universities. They are involved in the creation and translation of evidence, ensuring participants benefit from integrating cutting edge research into clinical practise, from a truly national perspective.
Course content encompasses a complete and comprehensive review of assessment and management paradigms. Advanced clinical reasoning will be used to determine assessment, differential diagnosis, sub classification and management of complex lumbar spine and pelvic disorders, including pelvic pain in pregnancy. Participants will build on previous knowledge and advance their manual therapy skills, improve assessment of articular, muscular, pain and biopsychosocial contributions to lumbopelvic pain disorders.
Course format: Learning focuses on interactive advanced clinical reasoning using complex cases, role playing, live patient demonstrations and highly practical components. These will be used to ensure targeted management and ensure consolidated learning.
By registering for this course, you are consenting for your contact details (name and email) to be provided to ASPE for:
• the purpose of seeking patients for a live assessment to be conducted within the courses
• the purpose of seeking interest in purchasing goods or services pursuant
Learning outcomes
- Consolidate undergraduate knowledge in the basic assessment of lower back pain inducing: diagnosis, sub classification, postural analysis, neurological and combined movements
- Improve knowledge and skills in integrating directional preference assessment and treatment into low back pain patients
- Improve skills and competence in the appropriate application of a broader range of advanced manual therapy techniques for the assessment and management of acute low back pain
- Integrate clinical reasoning into the assessment, differential diagnosis, sub-classification and management of pelvic girdle pain at an advanced level
- Improve practical skills and competence in the assessment and management of pelvic girdle pain
- Improve knowledge and practical skills regarding evidence based management of chronic low back pain
Prerequisites
- This course is only available to qualified and AHPRA registered physiotherapists.
- Minimum of 5 years physiotherapy practicing experience
Presenters
Darren Beales
Darren is a highly credentialed and experienced clinician-researcher. As a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist at Pain Options, Darren spends a lot of time with people with persistent and complex pain disorders. He interacts extensively with their management team to try and facilitate a consistent understanding and approach to care. As a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University, Darren's interest is clinical pain. He has co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed articles covering broad aspects on pain including mechanisms underlying pain, patient experiences of pain and implementation of care pathways for pain management. These dual clinician-researcher roles allow him to provide clinicians with pragmatic advice on practicing in an evidence informed manner. Darren is a long-time contributor to the Australian Physiotherapy Association, presently occupying the role of the President of the Australian College of Physiotherapist. When not physiotherapying, Darren likes riding his bike(s).
Michael Ryan
Michael Ryan is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist with a special interest and advanced post graduate training in spinal complaints. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists and is a Honorary Fellow and lecturer at Macquarie University. He is actively involved in teaching and research related to neck and lower back problems. Michael acts as a Consultant and Forensic physiotherapist, consulting to the insurance industry as an Independent Physiotherapy Consultant and as an expert witness in various court proceedings. Michael is a director of Sydney Specialist Physiotherapy Centre and Australian Specialist Physiotherapy Education and he continues to work primarily in clinical practice in his Sydney rooms. He is the past President of the Physiotherapy Council of NSW and of the Australian College of Physiotherapists.
Trudy Rebbeck
Prof Trudy Rebbeck PhD FACPTrudy is Professor of Clinical Translation in Physiotherapy at Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Australia (0.6FTE). She leads two national programmes of research; i) Implementation of clinical pathways and models of care for whiplash and musculoskeletal (MSK) pain conditions more broadly and, ii) Discovery of new mechanism underpinning headache and MSK pain conditions . In the past 5 years, her programme of research has attracted >$15m in competitive grants. She has 80 publications and >2800 citations. Prof Rebbeck has supervised 16 HDR students and mentored over 50 clinical specialists in physiotherapy to obtain Fellowship. She is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist in primary care (0.4FTE) specialising in assessment and management of complex cervical spine and head disorders (e.g whiplash, headache, concussion). Trudy's international impact in clinical translation is demonstrated by the 10+ international workshops she delivers in this area per annum.
Hannah Graetz
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