Course Outline

This two-day course has an extensive amount of practical information to help medical professionals be more knowledgeable and comfortable treating patients with medical, orthopedic, and neurological problems. It will expand your understanding of chronic and acute pain. It will expand your knowledge base of signs and symptoms, as well as how internal organ systems function, are interrelated, and how they relate to the Neuro-Musculoskeletal system. Participants will learn about nutrition as well as supplements for many conditions as well as for optimal health. Participants will also learn the newest information on how to maintain optimal health and prevent diseases for their patients, themselves and their family. This seminar will help you to take your care to a new level of comprehensiveness and excellence. Exercise, pain management and factors hindering response to manual treatments are also explored in-depth. Updated medical knowledge for the assessment of major medical disorders such as musculoskeletal, cardiac, pulmonary, endocrine, rheumatologic, neurologic, abdominal, renal and reproductive disorders are integrated into the course lecture. This course is essential for physical therapists, occupational therapists, and athletic trainers who want to develop comprehensive assessment and treatment techniques. It will enhance your overall evaluation and treatment approach to achieving positive results for your patients. Participants of this class will utilize a screening checklist and an exercise prescription form and will receive patient handouts on diet and nutrition.

Course Objectives

• Screen for medical, orthopedic and neurological symptoms and signs and make appropriate referrals.
• Understand why patients do not respond to manual therapy or exercise interventions including stress, food sensitivities, sleep and visceral disorders, scars, dental disorders, depression, etc.
• Perform a screening exam to check vital signs and to rule out serious medical disorders.
• Perform visceral examinations of lymph nodes, chest, abdomen, kidneys and hernia.
• Utilize a peak flow meter to evaluate asthmatic and COPD patients.
• Communicate with physicians in an educated manner regarding medical symptoms or for requesting further medical tests.
• Identify pain referral patterns for lymph nodes, ligaments, facets and internal organs.
• Evaluate for benign hypermobility syndrome and develop an effective treatment plan for regional hypermobility.
• Understand the factors contributing to pain sensitization and chronic pain including inflammation, sleep dysfunction, ganglia, dental factors, scars, and toxins.
• Understand the underlying mechanisms of chronic pain and develop an effective treatment program.
• Discuss the reason for poor muscle recruitment with chronic pain clients and how to test and reeducate the muscles.
• Learn specific nutritional guidelines to prevent heart disease, stroke, cancer, ADHD, chronic pain, dementia, depression and memory loss.
• Understand the implications of supplementation for joint and GI health, energy and brain function.
• Utilize specific web sites and references for nutritional supplementation updates.
• Demonstrate the knowledge on how to use supplements for the health of your patients, yourself and your family.

Schedule of instruction

	Day One		Day Two
7:30 8:00	Registration	8:30 10:00	Kidney and gastrointestinal disorders
8:00 8:15	Overview of course		• Irritable bowel
8:15 9:00	Interpretation of vital signs		• Interstitial cystitis
	• Pain referral from skin, dura,	10:00 10:15	Break
	ligaments and facet	10:15 10:45	Female and male reproductive
	• Hypermobility and Benign		• Organ pain
	Hypermobility Syndrome		• Chronic pelvic pain
9:30 9:45	Break		• Pelvic pain
9:45 10:15	Chronic pain, sensitization and functional processes		• Menopause and premenopause
	• Inflammation & degeneration	10:45 11:15	Examinations (Lab Session)
	• Aging and free radicals		• Kidneys
10:15 10:30	Muscle recruitment dysfunction		• Abdominal
	• Tender points		• Abdominal aorta exam
	• Spasm and trigger points	11:15 12:00	Hormone disorders
10:30 10:45	Scar history		• Diabetes
	• Examination and treatment		• Menopause
10:45 11:00	Bone pain		• Obesity (weight loss)
	• Stress and compression fractures		• Weight loss
	• Eating disorders		• Osteoporosis
	• Metastatic cancer		- Complete program of exercise and nutrition
11:00 11:15	Cartilage injury	12:00 1:00	Lunch (on your own)
	• Nutritional support	1:00 2:00	Lumbosacral and lower extremity
	• DJD		• Peripheral Nerve Entrapments
11:15 11:30	Arthritis and rheumatological conditions	2:00 2:30	Sleep dysfunction
11:30 12:30	Cardiovascular and chest wall pain disorders		• Sleep posture and the effect on the musculoskeletal system
	• Risk for stroke and coronary artery disease	2:30 2:45	Break
	• Heart failure	2:45 3:30	Fatigue
	• Arrhythmia		• Chronic fatigue
	• Orthostatic hypotension		• Fibromyalgia
	• Fainting	3:30 4:30	Nutritional needs and supplements for exercise and disease prevention
12:30 1:30	Lunch (on your own)		• Protein
1:30 2:00	Pulmonary disorders		• Omega 3
	• Infections, COPD	4:30	Questions and conclusion
	• Pneumonia, asthma
2:00 2:30	Cardiovascular and pulmonary (Lab session)
	• Blood pressure, peripheral
	• Pulses, chest sounds
2:30 2:45	Exercise prescriptions
	• Wellness
	• Weight loss
	• Cardiopulmonary
2:45 3:00	Edema and lymphedema
3:00 3:15	Break
3:15 4:15	Headaches and cervical spine disorders
	• Dental factors
	• Reasons for chronic pain
4:15 4:45	Infections and skin disorders
4:45 6:00	Neurological disorders
	• Parkinson’s and restless leg syndrome
	• Strokes, depression, anxiety
	• Cognitive and memory dysfunction

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Start Date	End Date	Location - **Click to Map It**	Tuition	Hrs	Hotel
Jan 31, 09	Feb 01, 09	OHSU, Portland, OR	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels
Mar 21, 09	Mar 22, 09	Delnor Health and Wellness Center, Geneva, IL	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels
May 02, 09	May 03, 09	Valley Medical Center , Renton, WA	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels
Jun 13, 09	Jun 14, 09	Tri-City Wellness Center, Oceanside, CA	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels
Oct 24, 09	Oct 25, 09	Holy Cross Hospital, Ft. Lauderdale, FL	$399.00	18.00	View Hotels
Nov 07, 09	Nov 08, 09	Spaulding Framingham Outpatient Center, Framingham, MA	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels