CPD Courses
The Spine – Mastering the Basics
- 2 Day Course
- 8.30am- 5pm
- Max 20 candidates
With over 20 years practicing physiotherapy graduating with BSc Hon in Physiotherapy in 2003 and MSc in Sport Physiotherapy in 2017, Jo has a vast range of experience across hospital, private practice, and high-performance sport settings. Working at the most competitive level of sport for over 15years with professional, Olympic and Commonwealth athletes Jo has treated and rehabilitated many complex spinal related injuries and complaints to the highest level. Now working in private practice, homing these skills to the general population and clinical setting has led to specialise management of both common and challenging spinal conditioning.
Now leading on the professional development of new graduates and junior staff across 3 private practice clinics as helped to identify the need to upskill physiotherapists on fundamental skills of assessment and practical hands-on therapy. With a passion for manual and exercise therapy, Jo has created a series of in-person courses to further develop and enhance physiotherapists in safe, effective and management of patients.
Course Aims and Objectives
Objectives:
- Understand the importance of the subjective assessment, undertaking efficient patient history with real time patient feedback, unpinning the development of the therapeutic relationship.
- Develop fundamental skills in the objective assessment of the spine, including strategies to structure the process to assist with extracting the key findings.
- Enhance understanding of the detailed the anatomy of the spine and common spinal pathology.
- Explore clinical reasoning strategies to form differential diagnoses and formation of working hypothesis for diagnosis, prognosis and outline treatment and management plan for common spinal conditions.
- Enhance palpatory skills of spine including main bony landmarks, joints and supporting musculature.
- Application of safe (patient consented) manual therapy techniques for analgesic response and change in movement quality and range.
- Understand dosage and grading of accessory and physiological mobilisation of treatment techniques.
- Have the ability to prescriptive of basic mobility and early stage rehab exercises for various spinal conditions, based on patient status and daily activity work related needs.
