Patients with back pain commonly present to physiotherapists who have a key role in managing this vexing condition in primary care. This course aims to advance physiotherapists' understanding and clinical skills in key aspects of low back pain (LBP) management.
Participants can expect to engage with clinically focused, updated and expanded LBP research translation to clinical practice. This will directly impact clinical competence to diagnose and treat LBP. Included elements are:
• Evidence-informed clinical reasoning for diagnostic triage and differential diagnosis of LBP,
• Updates re red flags as diagnostic cues for serious spinal pathology,
• Clinically focused diagnostic palpation of the lumbar spine and pelvis,
• Biomechanics and Clinical Anatomy of the lumbar spine and pelvis,
• Exercise prescription including: envelope of function, patient adherence, adaptations for structural pathology and/or hypervigilant responses to normal movement, adjusting exercises to manage ‘flares', FITT (frequency, intensity, time and type) principles, research-informed diagram- and text-illustrated exercise sheets.