Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Grand Rounds 12 - Work-Related Stress and Pain Sensitivity

Case: 

This month’s case is A 60-year-old female dental office manager, coping with severe neck and shoulder pain as well as being diagnosed with fibromyalgia 5 years ago. 

You can find all recorded Grand Round sessions from the Orthopaedic Division of the CPA here.

Case Presenter:

Bahram Jam 
DScPT, MScPT, BScPT, FCAMPT
Member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

Bahram graduated from U of T in 1992 year, University of Queensland in 1999 and Andrews University in 2009. He is the founder and director of Advanced Physical Therapy Education Institute (APTEI) and has been a chief instructor of postgraduate orthopaedic clinical courses across Canada and internationally. He has presented at several national and international conferences, and he continues to practice at Athletes Care at York University in Toronto.

Panelists:

Panelist: Jeff Begg PT, FCAMPT, Clinical Specialist (MSK)

Jeff is a full-time clinician with 26 years of private practice experience in both the US and Canada. In 2014 he qualified as Edmonton’s first CPA-certified Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist (MSK). For 20 years he was a clinical educator with the University of Alberta, and since 2014 he has provided Fellowship mentoring to registered physiotherapists.  Jeff is the chief instructor for the Physiotherapy Guild (physiotherapyguild.ca) an organization dedicated to advancing physiotherapists to clinical mastery, through fellowship mentoring.

Panelist: Christene Misener B.Sc., B.Sc.PT, FCAMPT, CAFCI (Acupuncture Certificate), All Levels of Dry Needling

Chris graduated from Dalhousie University in 1986 and 1989. She completed her Acupuncture Exams with Acupuncture Canada in 1997 and the Diploma of Advanced Manual and Manipulative Therapy in 1999.  She was an Orthopaedic Division instructor from 2003-2010 and has been teaching acupuncture with Acupuncture Canada since 2001 and examining since 2010. Chris has co-created the Acupuncture Canada Dry Needling courses, Levels 1 to 3.  Her treatments involve a combined approach involving  Sahrmann’s Movement System Imbalance theories, Kinetic Control, manual therapy and needling. She enjoys mentoring physiotherapists to help them apply their clinical knowledge in a holistic manner. 

Panelist: Neil Pearson PT, MSc(RHBS), BA-BPHE, C-IAYT, ERYT500 

Neil is a physical therapist, yoga therapist, researcher, Clinical Associate Professor at UBC, and faculty in three IAYT-accredited yoga therapy programs. He is the founding chair of CPA’s Pain Science Division, and the recipient of awards honouring his work in pain care, patient education and physiotherapy by Queen’s University, the Canadian Pain Society, and Physiotherapy Associations of BC and Canada, including the Canadian 2021 Medal of Distinction.  He co-authored – Yoga and Science in Pain Care 2019, authored Understand Pain Live Well Again in 2008, and is lead contributor to many free patient resources offer by Pain BC.