Participants will be learn how to describe the different types of headaches and migraines and their underlying causes.
Participants will be learn how to describe the different types of headaches and migraines and their underlying causes.
• Perform a comprehensive history taking and physical examination for patients presenting with headaches, identifying red flags and indications for referral.
• Apply basic manual therapy techniques safely and effectively to manage headache and migraine symptoms.
• Design simple exercise programs tailored to the needs of headache and migraine sufferers.
• Educate patients about lifestyle modifications, self-management techniques, and the importance of a multidisciplinary approach for long-term
management.
This comprehensive practical 2-day workshop provide participants with a sound overview of both the underpinning principles of joint mobilisation and lots of hands-on techniques to develop confidence in the correct application of techniques for use in management of patients with musculoskeletal conditions. These techniques are overlooked on some training programs. Many practitioners leave their training with very little or no experience of these valuable techniques. As a result, missing out on potentially the missing link when it comes to providing more useful treatments.
Hormesis is the beneficial effect of physical or chemical stress to a biological system. At the right level, such stress improves biological function and enhances physical health. Hormesis is also perhaps the most important and little understood way of improving health and wellbeing.
This session will examine how loading and cardiorespiratory exercise, heat and cold, and exposure to plant phytochemicals can all play a role in preventing and treating diseases.
Examples will be explored with respect to exercise, fasting, foods and supplements, sauna, and cold-water exposure that can be employed as effective preventive and therapeutic approaches to health and wellbeing.
Scoliosis is usually defined as a 3-dimensional curvature of the spine, which is mostly based on the classical assessment procedure via x-ray imaging. However, recent investigations indicate that the spine is less a driver than a follower in relation to preceding shifts in the tensional connections of the surrounding myofascial tissues.
Coupled with the novel insights about the PIEZO2 receptors and their frequent involvement in idiopathic scoliosis (see Nobel award 2021), this new perspective opens the door to explore a multitude of fascia-oriented treatment techniques, which will be discussed in this webinar, in addition to the basic anatomy and science behind it. Treatment suggestions include manual therapy and also movement-oriented approaches, such as in yoga, Pilates, etc.
This presentation will explore the underlying mechanisms through which mindfulness-based interventions exert their positive effects on human psychophysiology, particularly in the realms of stress reduction and well-being enhancement.
Special emphasis will be placed on the specific neural correlates of different practices, such as focused attention meditation, open monitoring meditation, and loving-kindness/compassion-based meditation, which are commonly included into widely-used mindfulness-based interventions such as the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) protocols.
This 2-hour webinar will provide participants with the most updated Evidence Based Approach about evaluation and treatment of patients with temporomandibular disorders and orofacial pain. We will discuss the role of masticatory muscles and the TMJ in relation to the diagnosis of orofacial pain for determining the most appropriate clinical reasoning to be applied.
It will also include a comprehensive presentation on the most updated findings related to sensory and motor impairments and how they are clinically relevant for orofacial pain and we will propose the clinical reasoning for their management. Current evidence shows the role of musculoskeletal impairments in the cervical spine and also TMJ in patients with orofacial pain which has set the stage for a multisystem approach of evaluation, treatment and management of these patients.
This session will explore the functional and pathological aspects of inflammation. Inflammation underpins multiple aspects of chronic and acute disease. Understanding the interplay between pro and anti-inflammatory processes allows insight into how dietary and supplemental approaches can help in managing important disease states. Examples including rheumatoid and osteo-arthritis, cancer, hypertension and heart disease will be considered and protocols for disease prevention and management will be described.
Participants are presented with the theory, procedure and application of two main components: Advanced Myofascial dry needling and the application of electrotherapy.
For the dry needling component, topics covered are review of key concepts from online learning level 1 including safe needling practice, different types of points, point location, needling technique and application, indications and contraindications of needling treatment.
The Electro-therapy component consists of introduction to the theory, procedure, application, indications and contraindications of electrotherapy treatment.
The course material is delivered by a 112-page manual and accompanied with lectures, demonstrations and student handouts.
With most osteopaths now in their final year of the three-year scheme, Lorraine discusses how osteopaths have been getting to grips with the verification and assurance process.
