The advanced upper cervical spine and head
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Covering advanced differential diagnosis, assessment and management of complex upper cervical spine and head disorders. The course is designed to advance clinical reasoning and competency in the assessment and management of complex upper cervical spine and head disorders.
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Learning outcomes
- Improve knowledge and understanding of how to screen for red flags, CAD and neurological conditions in the upper cervical spine
- Improve knowledge and understanding in differential diagnosis of headache.
- Improve knowledge and understanding in differential diagnosis of dizziness, including screening for CAD & vestibular dizziness
- Advance skills in a broader range of manual therapy techniques to manage patients with upper cervical spine disorders
- Improve skills in the assessment and management of the axio-scapula, cervical flexor (anterior) and cervical extension (posterior) muscle groups
- Improve knowledge and understanding of WAD
- Improve understanding of how to assess for pain sensitivity in the clinic
- Improve skills in the assessment and management of dizziness in cervicogenic conditions
- Improve skills in the assessment and management of dizziness in vestibular conditions
- Improve knowledge and understanding of TMD
- Improve understanding of how to put this together in the management of complex upper cervical spine disorders
Prerequisites
- This course is only available to qualified and AHPRA registered physiotherapists.
- Minimum of 5 years physiotherapy practicing experience
Presenters
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.
Julia Treleaven
Dr Julia Treleaven PhD BPhty, FACP. Julia is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Queensland and Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists. She has been researching whiplash and neck pain since 2000 and in 2004 completed her PhD focusing on the necks influence on sensorimotor control. She has continued her research in this area now is also looking at the role of neck dysfunction in those with headache, dizziness and post-concussion due to concomitant whiplash-type injury. She has over 140 publications in this area, written several book chapters and is an author of the recent book “Management of neck disorders- an evidenced based approach”. Julia works part-time as a physiotherapist in a private practice managing patients such as those with headache, whiplash, cervicogenic dizziness and post-concussion syndrome. Julia has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences and workshops in the area of neck pain, whiplash, headache, concussion and dizziness.
Katrina Williams
Dr Katrina Williams PhD, BPhty; MApSc-Phys; GCHEdu; FACP (2008) is a specialist Neurological Physiotherapist FACP 2008 (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapy). She has worked extensively in the fields of neurological and vestibular rehabilitation for over 25 years. Katrina is a full-time Senior Lecturer and Clinical Academic at the University of Queensland and runs a small private practice, Upright Physiotherapy and professional Education Group - Neurological Ageing and Vestibular Education – NAVE. She is also a co-founder of Vestibular Education Australia VEA. Katrina teaches Nationally and Internationally at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and is the course co-ordinator for the Neurological simulation program at UQ and 4th year Clinical co-ordinator. She is a lead researchers at UQ within the SENOVA hearing and balance laboratory, the first Queensland laboratory to house fully integrative vestibular testing, balance and gait assessment tools. Her research interests include understanding the impact of dizziness and the vestibular / oculomotor system on balance and function in progressive neurological conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinsons Disease, Cerebellar pathologies and Vestibular pathologies including migraines and concussion
Rodney McLean
Rod is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Fellow of the College of Australian Physiotherapists (awarded 2013), He manages complex, chronic musculoskeletal conditions including temporomandibular dysfunction from a biopsychosocial approach. Rod McLean currently works as an Advanced Practice Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist at the Back and Jaw Assessment Clinic at the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) which is a physiotherapist-led triage clinic for spine related conditions referred to the Orthopaedic and Neurosurgical Spine Departments and for jaw pain conditions referred to the Maxillofacial department. He established the Jaw Assessment clinic at the PAH in 2017 and is currently leading the evaluation of the clinic within a retrospective cohort study. Rod McLean is co developing the temporomandibular component for the APA national Spinal Level B curriculum course for physiotherapists across Australia.
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