Module 4 - Low back pain
With the brand new, comprehensive low back pain module for Clinical Edge members you’ll know:
- How to be specific with your assessment, diagnosis and management of low back pain, and
- How to treat low back pain successfully, even when a pathoanatomic diagnosis isn’t possible.
You’ll follow a practical step by step approach that will guide you through how to assess, treat and manage any low back pain patients that walks in your clinic door. You’ll explore:
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Practical video demonstrations of low back pain assessment tests, so you know which tests to perform with your patients, which tests to avoid, and how to quickly and accurately assess your low back pain patients without stirring up their pain.
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Video demonstrations of evidence-based low back pain treatment, including exercises and progressions, targeted manual therapy, strength, movement and motor control retraining so you can confidently get your treatment off to a great start, progress your patients treatment as their low back pain improves. You’ll know how to manage complex cases, help your patients through flareups, and get them back to work, sport and the activities they enjoy.
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Case studies that guide you through how to assess different low back pain patient presentations, and tailor rehab to each patients’ needs, while avoiding cookie cutter approaches, bulls#!t and quackery.
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Presentations that help you clearly understand low back pain, so that you can apply the evidence to successfully and confidently assess and treat low back pain.
Presentations
NEW Low back pain module!
With the brand new, comprehensive low back pain module for Clinical Edge members you’ll know: - How to be specific with your assessment, diagnosis and management of low back pain, and - How to treat low back pain successfully, even when a pathoanatomic diagnosis isn’t possible....
1. Facing Physio fears of the back pain bogeyman with David Toomey
Bust the myths and fears holding back your low back pain patients treatment results with this presentation from David Toomey....
2. Specifically non-specific? How to be specific with low back pain assessment and treatment. Part 1 with Simon Olivotto
Know when it’s possible to diagnose your patients’ low back pain, and how to determine your patients source of low back symptoms from your subjective examination and clinical tests. ...
3. How to be more specific with low back pain treatment. Part 2 with Simon Olivotto
Use your patients low back signs & symptoms to guide your low back treatment, and match the right treatment with the right person for maximal results. ...
4. How to explain diagnosis and successfully treat non specific low back pain. Part 3 with Simon Olivotto
Know what to assess & treat in your low back pain patients, how to explain your patients pain and diagnosis, and how to provide a pathway to recovery. Available 25 July 2022....
5. How to take a clear, simple low back pain subjective history that leads to less objective tests and better treatment with Paula Peralta
Take an effective low back pain subjective examination that helps you diagnose & understand patients pain, perform LESS objective testing, provide targeted treatment & get better results....
6. Low back pain - when age, gender & sport matters with Paula Peralta
When does your LBP patients’ age, sport or gender matter? Improve your diagnosis and treatment of low back pain for each of your patients, from childhood & adolescence right through to old age. ...
7. Motivate low back pain patients & measure your success using patient reported outcome measures with Paula Peralta
Motivate low back pain patients and help overcome their fears so they make a full recovery with this presentation. ...
8. Five ways to streamline your lumbar objective assessment with Simon Olivotto
5 strategies to streamline your lumbar spine assessment, saving time and targeting your treatments for better results. ...
9. Lumbar assessment part 1 - Smart skills to sharpen your objective assessment with Simon Olivotto
Develop an effective, accurate lumbar objective assessment as you explore practical demonstrations & clinical reasoning in part 1 of this video series with Simon Olivotto. ...
10. Lumbar assessment part 2 - Differential diagnosis with Simon Olivotto
Quickly assess and identify whether patients lumbar spine, hip, SIJ or other structures are the source of their low back & hip pain. ...
11. Lumbar assessment part 3 - Neurological & neuromechanosensitivity testing with Simon Olivotto
Know when and how to perform a thorough neurological examination in patients with low back pain, and how to test for lower limb neuromechanosensitivity or radicular pain....
12. Lumbar assessment part 4 - Manual therapy and movement assessment with Simon Olivotto
Perform an accurate manual therapy assessment to identify the cause of patients’ restricted movement, likely source of symptoms, and target your education, exercise rehab and manual therapy to get the greatest improvements in patients low back pain. ...
13. Lumbar assessment part 5 - Motor control, strength & endurance testing with Simon Olivotto
Identify when your patients movement strategies, bracing and protective behaviours, or impaired muscle strength, control or endurance throughout the kinetic chain are contributing to their low back pain. ...
14. Assess function, motor control and range of movement in low back pain patients. Part 1 with Paula Peralta
Assess patients and athletes with low back pain to identify when your rehab program need to target motor control, range of movement or functional movements to improve their pain. ...
15. Strength and endurance tests in low back pain patients. Part 2 with Paula Peralta
How to assess and improve strength and endurance through the lumbar spine, hip and kinetic chain in athletes and patients with low back pain. ...
Presenters
Simon Olivotto
Simon Olivotto is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist with over 19 years clinical experience. Based in Sydney Australia, Simon specialises in managing difficult and complex cases of persistent musculoskeletal pain.
Paula Peralta
Paula Peralta is a Specialist Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist (FACP), with more than 15 years experience in private practice and working with elite sport.
Paula has worked with multiple Australian netball, basketball, Commonwealth Games, Olympic & Paralympic teams including Tokyo 2020. Paula currently works between NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS), Sydney West Physio and as a Senior Physio educator & presenter with the Clinical Edge team.
David Toomey
David Toomey is an experienced and passionate New Zealand based Senior Physiotherapist with a demonstrated history of working with clients from acute injury management to chronic pain conditions and from weekend warriors to elite performers. Motivated and inquisitive, he aims to marry the art and the science of the profession, for better client and professional outcomes.
Nick Kendrick
Nick is an APA Titled Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist based in Brisbane, Australia. Nick works with a diverse caseload of patients, provides treatment on 3 current clinical trials, and has a passion for innovative, evidence-based and clinically-reasoned assessment and treatment.
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