Accelerate your Growth by Increasing your Scope

Overview

This online course series is designed for private practice and hospital-based orthopaedic therapists, including physiotherapists, kinesiologists, chiropractors, and sports medicine physicians.  The scope of practice for MSK conditions is rapidly changing.  Years lived with disability for people with chronic MSK conditions has increased by 60% since the turn of the millennium. 

MSK conditions are more complex than ever before.  Nutrition, lifestyle factors, sensorimotor smudging, pelvic health, psychosocial factors, and stress all play a role in the health and well-being of persons with MSK problems. 

Are you ready to accelerate your clinical growth by broadening your scope of practice?  

The Do's and Don'ts

Don’ts: You don’t have to become a psychologist to have a psychologically-informed practice and you don’t have to become a pelvic health physiotherapist to address pelvic health issues.  

Do’s: You do have to raise your awareness of the complexity of factors that contribute to persistent pain.  This webinar series will accomplish just that.  It is designed to introduce you to a variety of topics for consideration in MSK problems.  Should a menopausal woman with shoulder pain get the same treatment approach as a 20-year old student?  Do you routinely screen the pelvic floor in low back pain?  What does spirituality have to do with MSK problems?  Lifestyle factors, such as nutrition, sleep, and exercise are rarely discussed with someone with neck pain; yet, all of these factors are highly relevant.  

Join Carolyn Vandyken as she has an open forum discussion with clinical leaders in these areas of whole-person health.

Overview of the Sessions:

1. Sleep and Musculoskeletal pain: The Crucial Link with Debbie Patterson 
2. Osteoporosis: A Silent Risk Factor for Decreased QOL with Mikki Townsend 
3. Hormones Matter: Considerations for treating women with MSK problems, Susan Clinton 
4. Tension is a Top-Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise, Carolyn Vandyken 
5. Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope, Dr. Sinead Dufour 
6. Exercise Prescription Overhaul for MSK pain with Cory Blickenstaff and Teresa Waser 
7. Polyvagal Theory, Stress and MSK pain, Marlysa Sullivan 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this series, participants will:

• Have a deeper appreciation of the complexity of MSK problems
• Understand the data that suggests that our current approach to MSK rehab needs an overhaul
• Develop a thirst for more knowledge and skills that will broaden their scope and skill-base to help MSK patients make sustainable change(s)
• Accelerate the growth of their practice by diversifying their skillset in a biopsychosocial realm
• Treat MSK problems more effectively by taking the whole person into consideration

You can register for individual courses or for the whole series.