This is NOT just another back pain or exercise course. At it’s core, it’s about an active & patient focused approach to rehabilitation underpinned by the key to great rehab, clinical reasoning.
We do away with the over coaching and complication of many rehab approaches of the past and use the BPS model to open up exciting new possibilities to work with patients through both interaction (education & communication) to action (movement)
These things need to work TOGETHER to create a cohesive treatment rather than a bunch of random treatments thrown at the patient to see what sticks or a recipe-based approach that does not reflect modern practice & research.
Approach rehab from a truly biopsychosocial perspective. We do this specifically through the lens of back pain on this course but applies across many MSK issues.
Be prepared to discuss, move & maybe even have your biases challenged. This is not about a bunch of exercises that you could have just watched on YouTube, its understanding research better, improving communication, up skilling clinical reasoning & trimming away the unnecessary fluff. It goes way beyond just sets, reps & technique that often don’t apply well to treating people with pain anyway
It will provide you with a flexible clinical framework that can be adapted to all types of patients especially those suffering from back pain but with principles that can be adapted to all areas of the body & humans in general
This course has been taught in well over 30 countries around the world and to 100’s of clinicians.
40% Lecture
30% Practical
15% Discussion
15% Case study
— Learn how to break free from the outdated anatomy/pathology model of pain and injury
— Improve your competency in exercise & movement prescription & clinical reasoning across a BPS spectrum (not just sets/reps)
— Level up your critical thinking & learn to spot ‘good’ research quickly
— Get the latest research into back pain
— Find out if you making back pain worse!
— Learn what is specific back pain and non-specific back pain, and how to explain this tricky condition to patients
— Learn how specific with exercise/treatment we really need to be
— Practical exercise lab. How to create a “movement experience”
— Find out how much pain science knowledge you really need and how much to actually explain
— Learn why exercise for pain is not the same as exercise for fitness and why that matters to patients
— Is pain with exercise OK?
— Do we need to avoid pain or expose our patients to it?
— Take a dive into education for MSK problems, what it is & what it isn’t & how to do it
— Understand what a biopsychosocial approach really is and why many do it wrong
— Improve your exercise dosage knowledge and minimise flare ups
Saturday & Sunday, September 28-29, 2024
In-person at Practice Human: 28 W 27th St, Room 704, New York City
Day 1: Saturday, September 28th, 2024 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
9:00 am – Intro and key course concepts & intro to understanding EBP
10:00 am – Pain science & the BPS model in 2024
10:45 am – Break
11:00 am – The clinical conversation. Improving communication & subjective Ax
11:30 am – Pain & exercise. How does it help/not help?
12:30 pm – Lunch
1:30 pm – What do you want exercise/movement to do? Clinical reasoning tools for clinic
2:15 pm – Practical movement class – Creating a movement experience
3:00 pm – Break
3:15 pm – Exercise dosing – the secret to success
4:00 pm – Movement snacks
5:00 pm – Finish
Day 2: Sunday, September 29th, 2024 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Day 2 will have shorter breaks and lunch to allow you to get home earlier!
9:00 am – Understanding lower back pain
10:30 am – Serious (red flags), specific & non-specific back pain. What’s the difference?
11:00 am – Break
11:15 am – Back pain assessment workshop (Subj & obj)
12:30 pm – Lunch
1:00 pm – Treatment (Advice & education and exercise workshop)
2:00 pm – Exercise for back pain
3:00 pm – Close
Course price: $650
— Physical therapy students and new physical therapists (first 2 years after graduation): $385*
*Only 5 spots available at the student price. Use coupon code STUDENT385 at checkout.
Cancellation Policy: Full refund (less $50 processing fee) if canceled by Saturday, September 14th 2024. After 9/14/2024 no refunds.
Ben Cormack owns and runs Cor-Kinetic. He is a musculoskeletal therapist with a clinical background in sports therapy, rehabilitation, pain science & exercises stretching back 15 years. Ben specialises in a movement and exercise-based approach with a strong education component and patient-centred focus and runs evidenced-based courses nationally and internationally.