Tension is a Top Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise with Carolyn Vandyken

Accelerate your Growth by Increasing your Scope Episode 4

Tension is a Top Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise with Carolyn Vandyken

This series is designed for private practice and hospital-based orthopaedic therapists, including physiotherapists, kinesiologists, chiropractors, and sports medicine physicians.  The scope of practice for musculoskeletal (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 wellbeing of persons with MSK problems.  

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

Episode 4: Tension is a Top Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise with Carolyn Vandyken

Objectives of the Session:

Muscle tension is part of many musculoskeletal pain problems including neck pain, pelvic pain and low back pain.  Are you incorporating the latest evidence in sensory-motor retraining by using the Fremantle Questionnaires to assess sensory-motor changes?  Do you know what to do about it when they do have sensory-motor smudging?

General Information about this Webinar Series

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 all Sessions:

1. Sleep and Musculoskeletal Pain: The Crucial Link with Debbie Patterson (February 12)
2. Osteoporosis: A Silent Risk Factor for Decreased Quality of Life (QOL) with Mikki Townsend (February 19)
3. Hormones Matter: Considerations for Treating Women with MSK Problems with Susan Clinton (February 26)
4. Tension is a Top-Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise with Carolyn Vandyken (March 5)
5. Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal (MSK) Health: Broadening your Scope with Dr. Sinead Dufour (March 12)
6. Exercise Prescription Overhaul for MSK Pain with Cory Blickenstaff and Teresa Waser (March 19)
7. Polyvagal Theory, Stress and MSK Pain with Marlysa Sullivan (March 26)

Upon completion of this webinar 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

We will be streaming the webinar to our Facebook page so you can watch it live here if you don't get a seat in the webinar room.

The webinar will be recorded and will be added to our free library of courses for Embodia Members!