PhysioFundamentals Course Schedule

Detailed Course Outline

Day 1

9:00-10:00: Treatment Fundamentals Lecture

10:00-12:00: Deconstructing Biomechanics

• an exploration of the utility and limitations of the biomechanical model in pain and injury management
• introduction to how the current biomedical model can be simplified and modified to be consistent with the best evidence of both pain science and biomechanical science

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-3:00: Therapeutic Neuroscience Education Workshop

• participants work through the Pain Science Workbook to develop personal treatment approaches to teach therapeutic neuroscience education
• case studies are presented by the class and solved with facilitation from the instructor and the group
• key messages of pain science and interviewing techniques to start addressing the psychosocial aspects of pain and injury are taught
• the Three Faces of Flexion Pain Model is used to help partition when biomechanics or psychosocial drivers may be more important in the persistence of pain

3:00-5:00: The Tendon Loading Model of Rehabilitation and the importance of loading to common clinical disorders (90 minutes total: 30 minutes lecture, 60 minutes practical)

• an evidence based approach to understanding pain and rehabilitating common conditions
• an approach to understand the assessment of sensitivity in exercise prescription
• demonstrations of the exercise interventions
• case study autopsies are performed illustration common themes behind various treatment approaches and how a simplified intervention can be effective

Day Two

9:00- 12:00pm: When Biomechanics Matters: Incorporating biomechanics into the biopsychosocial approach

• biomechanics, load and stress are still important variables in injury management
• determining when biomechanics are important is evaluated during this section
• practical alternatives to the traditional model are demonstrated and explored by each student during this interactive and participant driven lecture and demonstration
• alternatives to traditional biomechanical screening tools and assessment techniques are taught
• The stress modification model of injury prevention: A running injury case study (1 hour:100%)
  • a running injury case study will be presented that highlights how physical loading is manipulated in the treatment of common injuries
  • principles are taught that can be applied to many patients

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00pm: Simplifying Manual Therapy (short lecture and practical component)

• Resolution through confrontation: how simple exercise and manual therapy techniques help resolve pain and reap the benefits of mechanotransduction
• students will be taught basic clinical reasoning to choose manual therapy techniques
• traditional manual therapy techniques will be reframed to be maximize a biopysychosocial intervention approach
• active and passive approaches to the symptom modification interventions and how these manual therapy approaches are supported by exercise interventions will be taught

2:00-5:00: Comprehensive Capacity and Symptom Modification Model of Injury/Pain Management

• the comprehensive capacity approach to injury and pain treatment will be detailed
• students will learn a framework and simplified clinical reasoning tool to help guide therapy
• Symptom modification as clinical reasoning to guide interventions as demonstrated through case studies simplifying both manual therapy, movement based interventions and exercise therapy via understanding the commonalities amongst our most popular interventions
• Comprehensive Capacity in Movement Training and Screening Case Studies